Physical security company Verkada Inc. has taken an investment from Nvidia Corp. and signed a technical partnership with the chipmaker, the two said today, in a deal meant to speed up the artificial intelligence running across Verkada’s 2.4 million connected devices.
The size of the investment was not disclosed but comes seven months after Verkada raised funding at a $5.8 billion valuation in a round led by CapitalG, the growth arm of Google owner Alphabet Inc.
Verkada offers security cameras, door access, alarms, environmental sensors and intercoms, all run through one cloud dashboard. The offering has found strong success, with the company’s technology deployed at 30,000 organizations in 170 countries, including more than 100 of them in the Fortune 500.
Two Nvidia products sit at the center of the deal. One is the Cosmos family of world foundation models. The other is…
