"Guard Owl recently closed a $3 million seed round led by Tower Research Capital. The company lists its current clients as Aldi, Alexander Wang, and real estate firm Greystar. The startup offers features such as real-time GPS tracking, enabling clients to ensure guards remain alert and on duty. By the end of the year, they want to automate 50% of a client's back-office workflow, like payroll, billing, and compliance."
"A former SpaceX engineer thinks that private security is ripe for disruption. "There's a lot of parallels to what SpaceX did with the aerospace industry," Guard Owl cofounder and CEO Narek Kajikian told Business Insider. Kajikian, Edrees Tabibzada, and Sam Abelyan teamed up to found Guard Owl, a security management platform that aims to bring agentic AI to the private security industry."
Guard Owl was founded by Narek Kajikian, Edrees Tabibzada, and Sam Abelyan to build an agentic AI security management platform for private security. The company completed a $3 million seed round led by Tower Research Capital and lists clients including Aldi, Alexander Wang, and Greystar. Core features include real-time GPS tracking to monitor guard alertness and on-duty status. The company aims to automate 50% of clients' back-office workflows by year-end, covering payroll, billing, and compliance. Long-term plans include camera integration and an Uber-style marketplace for guards to find local jobs and receive performance reviews.
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