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AI for Corporate Security Cameras

Winter 2026Founded 20243 peopleSan Francisco, CA, USA
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AI Security Camera IntelligenceSaaSRetail, commercial real estate, and security operatorsMedium competition
Moat
AI that works on low-quality legacy CCTV; no hardware replacement required; incident documentation and alerting.
Key risk
Privacy regulations; competition from new camera vendors; false positive liability.
Why now
Retail theft and premises liability costs escalating; legacy CCTV useless without intelligence; AI upgrade path clear.
Competitors
Axis Communications, new camera vendors, Verkada, Spot AI

About

Lexius turns existing security cameras into an AI security guard that detects, documents, and alerts incidents like shoplifting and slip-and-falls. Millions of locations already have cameras but no intelligence. Replacing them costs $50K to $100K per site. Lexius upgrades every camera instantly, no rip and replace, no new hardware. Real-world camera systems are messy, fragmented, and decades old, and AI breaks on low-quality CCTV. The hard part isn’t the model, it’s making unreliable systems work at scale with accuracy high enough for real decisions. Lexius starts with security and liability, and becomes the operating system for physical spaces.

Founders Β· 2

David Elskamp
David ElskampFounder

2x founder, started a media company at 14, scaled it to six figures, ran it for 8 years while working with global brands. BA & MA in Computer Science, with a focus on computer vision, conducting AI research and building AI systems for real-world environments.

Liam Webster
Liam WebsterFounder
Berkeley

Co-authored one of the largest open-source computer vision frameworks EECS @ UC Berkeley, AI researcher @ the International Computer Science Institute (ML & Privacy).

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