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Flock Group Inc., doing business as '''Flock Safety''', is a [[mass surveillance]] corporation, which was founded in 2017 by [[Garrett Langley]], [[Paige Todd]], and Matt Feury. They utilize [[Artificial Intelligence]]/machine learning, computer vision, and other modern technologies to identify and locate/track people and vehicles. They also offer autonomous drones, gunshot locator (listening) devices, which in 2025, also began analyzing human voice.<ref name="eff microphones">https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/10/flocks-gunshot-detection-microphones-will-start-listening-human-voices</ref><ref name="sos listening">https://stateofsurveillance.org/news/flock-listening-city/</ref>
Flock Group Inc., doing business as '''Flock Safety''', is a [[mass surveillance]] corporation, which was founded in 2017 by [[Garrett Langley]], [[Paige Todd]], and Matt Feury. They utilize [[Artificial Intelligence]]/machine learning, computer vision, and other modern technologies to identify and locate/track people and vehicles. They also offer autonomous drones, gunshot locator (listening) devices, which in 2025, also began analyzing human voice.<ref name="eff microphones">https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/10/flocks-gunshot-detection-microphones-will-start-listening-human-voices</ref><ref name="sos listening">https://stateofsurveillance.org/news/flock-listening-city/</ref> Flock is a privately held company, with no single owner, but they have shareholders consisting of both the three founders, and other investors.<ref>https://www.bgr.com/2222047/who-owns-flock-cameras/</ref>
==Systems==
==Systems==
==History==
==History==
Flock Safety was founded in 2017, by three Georgia Tech graduates. Garrett Langley (B.S. Electrical Engineering 2009), Paige Todd (B.S. Management 2007), and Matt Feury (B.S. Computer Science 2011) joined together as co-founders to establish the company. A wave of car break-ins in Langley’s new neighborhood was what initially prompted him create the new company. Existing ALPR systems were expensive, and he believed he could make such a system more affordable. "We cold-called 20 neighborhoods, and two bought on the spot. They transferred money to Garrett’s personal bank account." They quickly proceeded to assemble the promised system. "We built a very early version of the product, which was really just an Android phone in a waterproof box,” Paige said. However, the system did not remain that rudimentary for long. It quickly evolved, as more companies and HOAs signed up. A great deal of funding was also progressively secured from additional police departments, since their new company was offered a mass surveillance capability which those departments could not legally run themselves.<ref>https://www.scheller.gatech.edu/news/2025/entrepreneurs-of-scheller-paige-todd.html</ref><ref>https://whoistheownerof.com/who-owns-flock-safety-complete-ownership/</ref>
Flock Safety was founded in 2017, by three Georgia Tech graduates. Garrett Langley (B.S. Electrical Engineering 2009), Paige Todd (B.S. Management 2007), and Matt Feury (B.S. Computer Science 2011) joined together as co-founders to establish the company. A wave of car break-ins in Langley’s new neighborhood was what initially prompted him create the new company. Existing ALPR systems were expensive, and he believed he could make such a system more affordable. "We cold-called 20 neighborhoods, and two bought on the spot. They transferred money to Garrett’s personal bank account." They quickly proceeded to assemble the promised system. "We built a very early version of the product, which was really just an Android phone in a waterproof box,” Paige said. However, the system did not remain that rudimentary for long. It quickly evolved, as more companies and HOAs signed up. A great deal of funding was also progressively secured from additional police departments, since their new company was offered a mass surveillance capability which those departments could not legally run themselves.<ref>https://www.scheller.gatech.edu/news/2025/entrepreneurs-of-scheller-paige-todd.html</ref><ref>https://whoistheownerof.com/who-owns-flock-safety-complete-ownership/</ref>
==Funding==
Flock Grew rapidly, in large part due to venture capital investments in the company. This venture capital was obtained by a variety of companies and groups, including Founders Fund, Greenoaks, Bedrock, Meritech, Matrix Partners, Sands Capital, Kleiner Perkins, Tiger Global and Y Combinator. Andreessen Horowitz has also been quite influential in security funding for the company, having run their enormous 2025 funding round.<ref>https://sfl.media/trump-billionaires-are-behind-the-flock-cameras-tracking-your-every-move/</ref> Many individuals have been involved in providing this funding, including Sanjot Malhi, Tarun Davda, Sanuj Shah, Ankush Goyal, Rajinder Balaraman, Stan Reiss, Paul Ferri, Geoff Lewis, Alda Dennis, Ayush Chamaria, Sudipto Sannigrahi, Gourav Bhattacharya, Avnish Bajaj, Rajat Agarwal, Ben Altshuler, Andrew Verhalen, Anthony DeCamillo, Rob Ward, David George, Paul Madera, Akshat Jain, Marinda Luk, and Vikram Vaidyanathan.<ref>https://www.roundfunded.com/en/founder/matt-feury</ref>.
==References==
==References==