Most Recent Reports on Financials

Publicly Traded Video Surveillance Company Directory on Oct 21, 2009
This directory indexes publicly traded video surveillance companies, aggregating recent financial results and analyzing their impact. The directory includes 17companies that either only provide vid...

Video Surveillance Investments Directory on Sep 12, 2009
This directory provides a single source of information on funding and acquisitions in the video surveillance market.  This directory is part of a new section, Video Surveillance Financials, o...

Recommendations for Surveillance Startups / Investors on Aug 09, 2009
While there are many startups in video surveillance, many of them have under-achieved, especially the most prominent, VC backed companies in the market. Indeed, this has caused VentureBeat to symbo...


Most Recent Industry Updates

Features IP Video Market's analysis on Financials's recent events and is only available to subscribers of the Video Surveillance Professional Service.

Optelecom-NKF Significant Financial Decline Q4 2009 on Mar 13, 2010
Optelecom-NKF, a specialist in video surveillance systems for traffic monitoring and critical infrastructure security, announced a 21% year over year decline in revenue for Q4 2009. From their fin...

Anixter IP Security Revenue Rebounding Q4 2009 on Mar 13, 2010
For Q4 2009, Anixter's revenue for their security solutions division improved from the previous quarter, with 9% year over year revenue growth compared to only 1% year over year growth in Q3 2009. ...

Anixter's Q3 2009 Financial Results Reviewed on Nov 22, 2009
Anixter is a growing force in the video surveillance market who clearly is benefiting from the transition to IP video. However, Anixter's growth rate has shrunk significantly over the last 9 months...

Did the Security Spending Boom Never Happen? on Sep 09, 2009
Almost a decade after 9/11, the questions and doubts on the security spending boom continue to increase. Did the boom never happen? And, even if it did, why is there such questions arising now. Th...

Most Successful US Video Surveillance Startups on Aug 19, 2009
From a financial perspective, Sypixx is probably the most successful US video surveillance startup post 9/11. Acquired by Cisco for $51 M in 2006, Sypixx was acquired only a few years after la...

MDI Acquired/Merged on Aug 15, 2009
Security manufacturer MDI is being purchased/merged with a Qatar integrator (Almana Networks). MDI is a small to mid size US based company with some substantial US government/military de...

Investors Losing Interest in Security? on Aug 04, 2009
VentureBeat has an interesting analysis on VCs losing interests in security startups. The article focuses on the Information Security market so it is indirectly relevant to physical security/v...

Risks of Video Surveillance Startups on Jul 11, 2009
In discussions with video surveillance startups and investors, both routinely over-estimate the size and the potential of the video surveillance market. This increases risk of integrators/end users...