{"url":"https://newsforagent.com/news/2026-10-28/allegion-ventures-ambient-ai-series-c","markdown_url":"https://newsforagent.com/news/2026-10-28/allegion-ventures-ambient-ai-series-c.md","title":"Allegion Ventures Leads Ambient.ai Series C","headline":"Allegion Ventures Leads Series C for Ambient.ai as Total Funding Passes $100 Million","description":"Allegion Ventures led a Series C for Ambient.ai, pushing total funding past $100 million as the security AI company reports 90% recurring revenue growth.","section":"Funding","published_at":"2026-10-28T19:52:39+00:00","modified_at":"2026-10-28T19:52:39+00:00","author":"News Desk","key_takeaways":["Allegion Ventures led a Series C round for Ambient.ai, its second strategic investment in the company since 2023.","Ambient.ai said the round takes its total funding past $100 million.","Allegion Ventures President Rob Martens will join Ambient.ai's board of directors, where he had been an observer since 2023."],"companies":[{"name":"Allegion Ventures","is_primary":true,"profile_url":"https://akta.pro/company-profiles/00026bu/allegion-ventures","website":"https://www.allegion.com/corp/en/ventures.html"},{"name":"Ambient.ai","is_primary":false,"profile_url":"https://akta.pro/company-profiles/00008g6/ambient-ai","website":"https://ambient.ai"}],"source":{"publisher":"Securityinfowatch","title":"Allegion Ventures Makes Second Strategic Investment in Ambient.ai","url":"https://www.securityinfowatch.com/ai/news/55415096/allegion-allegion-ventures-makes-second-strategic-investment-in-ambientai"},"other_sources":[],"tags":["Funding","Allegion Ventures","Ambient.ai"],"body_markdown":"Allegion Ventures has led a Series C funding round for Ambient.ai, the corporate venture fund's second strategic investment in the physical security artificial intelligence company. [Securityinfowatch](https://www.securityinfowatch.com/ai/news/55415096/allegion-allegion-ventures-makes-second-strategic-investment-in-ambientai) reported the round on October 28, 2026. Ambient.ai said the investment takes its total funding past $100 million. Additional terms were not disclosed.\n\n## Allegion Ventures' Second Ambient.ai Investment\n\n[Ambient.ai](https://akta.pro/company-profiles/00008g6/ambient-ai) is based in Redwood City, California, and provides an enterprise security platform that uses existing cameras and sensors for continuous security monitoring. Co-founders Shikhar Shrestha, the chief executive, and Vikesh Khanna, the chief technology officer, started the company in 2017. Ambient.ai has been in [Allegion Ventures](https://akta.pro/company-profiles/00026bu/allegion-ventures)' portfolio since 2023 and has since expanded its presence among Fortune 100 companies and organizations across corporate campuses, data centers, critical infrastructure, education, manufacturing, healthcare and museums.\n\nAfter launching Ambient Pulsar, an edge-optimized reasoning vision-language model built for physical security, the company reported 90% annual recurring revenue growth in fiscal year 2026 and positive cash flow in the first half of the year. Allegion President and CEO John H. Stone said: \"This follow-on investment underscores our confidence in their technology, their leadership and our increased collaboration.\"\n\nAllegion Ventures President Rob Martens, who is also Allegion's chief strategy officer, will join Ambient.ai's board of directors after serving as a board observer since 2023. He joins Martin Casado of Andreessen Horowitz, who has served on the board since 2019. \"We have a real opportunity, as pioneers in our industry, to accelerate innovation together and solve emerging challenges across secure access, threat detection and data analytics,\" Martens said.\n\nShrestha said the funding lets the company move faster to bring agentic capabilities to physical security with continued aggressive investment in research and development. \"The next era of enterprise physical security will run on AI agents working alongside experienced operators,\" he said.\n\n## Allegion's Revenue Scale Behind the Fund\n\nAllegion plc, the parent of Allegion Ventures, reported $4.1 billion in full-year 2025 revenue, according to akta.pro [company records](https://akta.pro/company-data). The same records list full-year 2025 net revenues of $4,067.3 million and first-quarter 2026 revenue of $1,033.6 million. Allegion Ventures was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in Dublin.\n\n## Ambient.ai's Agentic Security Rollout\n\nAmbient.ai announced new agentic physical security capabilities on August 26, 2026, including an AI agent that monitors every camera feed in real time and Agentic Video Walls that surface incidents with plain-language descriptions, Security Journal Americas reported. The company said the features also include case management and double camera density on existing hardware.\n","publisher":{"name":"News for Agent","url":"https://newsforagent.com"}}