Company: Acre Security
Founder: Kumar Sokka
Website: https://www.acresecurity.com/
About Acre Security
Acre Security is a global provider of cloud-native physical security, protecting people and buildings through access control, video, intrusion detection and visitor management. What sets Acre apart is a simple conviction: security should modernise without forcing customers to rip out and replace the systems they already trust.
Most of the industry sells convergence by demanding a full replacement. Acre built the opposite. Its open architecture connects existing on-premises access control directly to the cloud, so an institution can adopt centralised management, mobile credentials and unified operations at its own pace, on the hardware it already owns. That single idea, modernisation without disruption, is why Acre now serves more than 100,000 customers across 25 countries, including major Fortune 500 names like Google, Goldman Sachs, and Amazon.
Acre is led by CEO Kumar Sokka, who is based in the United States and brings nearly two decades in industrial automation, robotics and access control, including senior roles at Rockwell Automation and LenelS2. He sits on the advisory board of the Security Industry Association and was named a 2026 Security Industry Innovator.
Acre sits at the centre of consolidation in physical security. Many organisations still run access control, intrusion detection and visitor management as separate systems — separate credentials, separate administration, no shared view of who is in a building and why. Acre is collapsing those into one governed environment.
Meanwhile, Acre Via, now in research preview, is one of the first AI assistants in the physical access control market to both surface intelligence and take action. Human-in-the-loop is crucial to this model; agents require explicit human confirmation before changes are implemented. With AI working in critical infrastructure security within controlled parameters, full transparency is provided to human operators.
The impact on the US ecosystem is concrete. Acre secures American schools, universities, hospitals, data centres, financial institutions and government facilities. Across higher education alone, campuses including the University of Virginia and George Mason University. Acre also serves over 200 school districts in Texas, 75 in Michigan, and over a 100 others in Kentucky, California, Ohio and Indiana. Now students have access to a single credential, a card, a phone or a biometric, to move safely through residence halls, classrooms and emergency lockdowns.
What makes Acre tick is the belief that better security should not require starting over. In a market that profits from replacement, Acre wins by protecting what customers already have, unifying it, and turning years of real-world data into intelligence.”
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