Hakimo raises $12 million from existing investors Zigg Capital, Vertex Ventures, others
09 Jul 2026, 03:03 PMOther existing backers Neotribe Ventures, Defy.vc and Rocketship.vc also participated in the funding round.
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Hakimo, a physical AI-powered security monitoring platform, said it has raised $12 million in a fresh funding round led by existing investor Zigg Capital.
The round also saw participation from other existing investors Neotribe Ventures, Vertex Ventures, Defy.vc and Rocketship.vc, a statement said.
With this round, Hakimo's total funding has climbed to $32 million.
The Menlo Park, California-based startup will use the fresh capital to speed up product development, push into new markets and customer segments, and grow its team. The company plans to deepen its presence in real estate while accelerating its expansion into other markets and geographies, and it is also looking to stretch its platform beyond core security use cases into adjacent areas like safety, compliance and customer experience.
"This financing allows us to move faster across every dimension of the business," said Sam Joseph, CEO and co-founder, Hakimo, "The opportunity to modernize physical security is enormous, and we're just getting started," he added.
Hakimo was founded in early 2020 by Joseph and Sagar Honnungar, both Stanford-trained AI experts with enterprise SaaS backgrounds. Honnungar grew up in Bengaluru before heading to Stanford, while Joseph had earlier worked as an algorithm and data engineer at startups including Lightup Data and Totemic.
The company is an AI-powered physical security platform that layers computer vision and real-time monitoring onto a customer's existing cameras, letting a single operator do the work of an entire guard team without any hardware replacement. Its customers include Fortune 500 firms, real estate operators and commercial properties, and it recently launched an AI-driven forensic search tool for faster footage analysis.
Hakimo last raised money in March 2025, when it closed a $10.5 million Series A led by Vertex Ventures and Zigg Capital, with participation from RXR Arden Digital Ventures and existing backers Defy.vc and angel investor Gokul Rajaram. That round coincided with the launch of its "AI Operator," an autonomous agent designed to monitor, detect and respond to security threats in real time.
Physical AI is gaining investor traction in India and globally as startups build the data and models needed for robots to operate in the real world.
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