Flock
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- HQ
- East Chicago
- Sectors
- Surveillance, Security, Hardware
Flock Safety, backed by a16z and Tiger Global, rises to $8.3B valuation and $500M ARR while facing misuse and privacy allegations
Flock Safety, a security-tech company providing license-plate cameras, video, gunshot detection, drones and AI search to law enforcement and homeowners associations, has grown to operate in over 5,000 communities across 49 states and raised about $500 million at an $8.3 billion valuation while claiming $500M in ARR. The company now faces privacy and civil-liberties controversies after reports that officers misused camera data to stalk people and shared data across jurisdictions.
Cursor rolls out Origin beta for paid users on Aug 17 as GitHub suffers seven-hour outage
Cursor launched Origin, a built-in git hosting and code-review platform, in beta for all paid users on August 17 — the same day a seven-hour GitHub outage impaired pull requests, Actions, and Copilot. Origin syncs both ways with GitHub, supports full PR workflows and an AI 'Ask Cursor' review feature, and claims high-scale performance metrics.
