Brivo and Eagle Eye Networks Complete Long-Anticipated Merger, Creating the Physical Security Industry’s Largest AI-Native Cloud Platform

After more than a decade of close collaboration, Brivo and Eagle Eye Networks have formalized their partnership with a full corporate merger, an outcome long anticipated by customers, partners, and industry observers watching the steady convergence of cloud-based access control and video intelligence.

Announced on December 29, the merger creates what the companies describe as the world’s largest AI-cloud-native physical security company, operating under the Brivo name and delivering a single, unified platform spanning access control, video surveillance, AI analytics, visitor management, and intrusion detection.

The move represents not a sudden consolidation, but the culmination of a carefully executed strategy rooted in shared ownership, common vision, and years of technical and operational integration.

“This is about delivering simplicity and power at the same time,” said Dean Drako, who will serve as CEO of the merged company. “Customers will have one support team, one business relationship, and one integrated cloud-native physical security solution. The Brivo Security Suite brings AI, access control, video intelligence, visitor management, and intrusion into a single solution, centralizing security across the enterprise.”

Partnership Years in the Making

The roots of the merger trace back more than a decade, when cloud adoption in physical security was still nascent and often viewed with skepticism. Brivo, founded in 2002, was among the first companies to move access control to a true software-as-a-service model, challenging the industry’s reliance on on-premises systems. Eagle Eye Networks, founded in 2012, similarly set out to reinvent video surveillance by building a cloud-native video management system designed from the ground up for scalability, cybersecurity, and AI.

The strategic alignment between the two companies deepened after Drako acquired Brivo in 2015, creating common ownership while allowing both organizations to operate independently. Over the years that followed, the companies increasingly synchronized product roadmaps, engineering priorities, and go-to-market strategies, while maintaining separate brands and operations.

Unification as a Market Imperative

According to Van Till, the formal merger reflects a broader industry shift toward consolidation and unification, driven not by vendor convenience but by customer demand.

For enterprise and midmarket customers alike, the promise is fewer silos, fewer vendors, and fewer integration challenges, paired with deeper AI-driven insight across physical environments.

Accelerating AI-Driven Security Operations

The combined company is positioning itself squarely at the intersection of AI and physical security, with ambitions that extend beyond traditional monitoring and access enforcement.

By unifying video analytics, access events, and behavioral data within a single cloud-native platform, Brivo aims to accelerate innovation in anomaly detection, automated response workflows, and predictive security operations. Executives say the scale of the combined organization will also allow faster development and deployment of AI capabilities across both security and operational use cases.

“We’ll offer a unified platform, a unified structure, and a unified strategy,” Drako said. “We’ll be one team moving in the same direction. This benefits customers, employees and partners. It also positions us to take even better advantage of opportunities created by technological advancements—notably AI.”

Commitment to Openness and the Channel

Despite the consolidation, company leaders emphasized that the merged Brivo will continue to support an open ecosystem, an essential assurance for integrators and customers with heterogeneous security environments. The company said it will maintain its commitment to open APIs and third-party integrations, continuing to support other video and access control solutions alongside its own technologies.

Channel partners are also expected to benefit from a simplified sales motion, an expanded portfolio, and deeper support resources within a single organizational structure.

“The merger cements our leadership position in the market, provides a better solution for our customers, and helps resellers grow their businesses more efficiently,” Van Till said.

Drako echoed that message, framing the merger as both an industry milestone and a continuation of a long-standing mission.

“Today is a significant milestone for Brivo and Eagle Eye Networks. It’s also a milestone for the industry and for our customers,” he said. “Since 2002, Brivo and Eagle Eye have been pioneers. We were first to the cloud, first to bring cybersecurity to the forefront, first with an open platform, and now we’re the global leader in unified security—we’re leading the way again.”

A Unified Company, Global in Scope

Under the new structure, Brivo will operate with U.S. headquarters in Bethesda, Maryland, and Austin, Texas, and additional offices in Lehi, Utah; Amsterdam; Bangalore; and Tokyo. The company will serve millions of customers worldwide across commercial, multifamily, and enterprise markets.

Leadership continuity remains a central theme of the merger, with Drako as CEO and Van Till as president, reflecting the shared stewardship that has defined the companies’ relationship for years.

“Our goal is to continue to provide the best product and, for our reseller partners, the most extensive support in the industry,” Drako said.

With the formal merger complete, Brivo now moves forward as a single organization—bringing together two of the physical security sector’s most influential cloud pioneers, and betting that scale, AI, and true platform unification will define the industry’s next chapter.