Knightscope

Market context

Knightscope is a public-market service robot company with deployed autonomous security robots operating in parking lots, campuses, transit sites and commercial facilities.

Facts

• Website: https://www.knightscope.com/
• HQ: Mountain View, CA, United States
• Ticker: KSCP / NASDAQ
• Segment: Service

Autonomous security robot company

Knightscope develops autonomous security robots and AI-driven security products for public safety, commercial facilities and government customers.

• Target environment: Parking lots, campuses, transit sites, hospitals, casinos, commercial facilities, public spaces and federal security environments.
• Deployment model: Robot-as-a-service and security-technology model spanning autonomous patrol robots, docking, data services and emergency communication devices.
• Customer context: Security teams, public agencies, campuses, commercial property owners, transit operators and federal customers.
• Workflow context: Autonomous patrol, facility surveillance, anomaly detection, remote monitoring, emergency communications and public-safety data collection.
• Commercial maturity: Listed security robotics company with deployed autonomous security robots and investor reporting.
• Market position: Public-market service robot builder for facility security.
• Adoption constraints: Adoption depends on reliability, privacy acceptance, customer retention, security ROI, service support, site integration and public-sector procurement.
• Adjacent context: Autonomous security robots, service robots, public-safety robotics, facility monitoring and mobile surveillance systems.
• Source confidence: high

Events

• 2026-03-03 - Acquisition - Knightscope acquires Event Risk to expand autonomous security force model - Knightscope acquired Event Risk to expand its autonomous security force strategy. The transaction adds tech-enabled guarding services and a managed-service security platform. The event expands Knightscope's model beyond autonomous security robots into integra…
• 2025-03-10 - Deployment - Knightscope announces 107 machines and devices across renewals and deployments - Knightscope announced renewals for four Autonomous Security Robot subscriptions, seven new ASR deployments and contracts for 96 emergency communication devices. The company grouped the activity as 107 machines and devices in motion across public-safety and se…
• 2022-01-26 - Market Signal - Knightscope closes USD 22.36M public offering - Knightscope sold 2,236,619 Class A common shares at USD 10 per share. The offering generated USD 22,366,190 in gross proceeds. The company began Nasdaq trading under the ticker KSCP on 27 January 2022.

Team

• William Santana Li - Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
• Apoorv S. Dwivedi - EVP and Chief Financial Officer - This role identifies Apoorv S. Dwivedi as part of Knightscope's leadership or founding team.
• Mercedes Soria - EVP and Chief Intelligence Officer/CISO

Context tags

• Public safety robotics - Workflow

Customers and deployments

• Machines And Devices - 107 machines and devices - 2025-03-10 - customers - security and public-safety deployments - Knightscope announced 107 machines and devices across renewals and deployments. - source posture: Compa…