Sauron

Video Surveillance · Access Control & Alarm Systems
2hiring now · +1 posted in 30 days
3backers · Atomic, Abstract Ventures
10+team · employees, estimated range
34stories in the press

Overview

Our home security platform reliably identifies, understands, and deters threats. With Sauron, you always know that everything is under control.

Funding and backers

Team
11-50
employees, estimated range
Hiring now
2
+1 posted in 30 days
Backers
3
Atomic, Abstract Ventures
Momentum
28/100
hiring for its size, in the news
Last sign of life
1 mo ago
a posting or a news item
The story so fareach stage dated by its source: the company's releases, the press, registers, filings
Oct 2026 Formerly Sauron Industries, Inc. (sauronhome.com) Dec 2024 Website went live first capture in the Wayback Machine
Tractionpublic signals, read monthly
Web presence
top 7%
of 133.2M domains by links, Common Crawl
Backed byfrom the funds' portfolios and accelerator catalogs
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Salary insights

Compensation ranges based on this company's open jobs
Median
$176k
Typical range
$92k – $260k
Open positions
2
2 Jobs
Senior 100%
Level Jobs Median Typical range
Senior 2 $176k $92k – $260k
Highest paying role Senior Perception Engineer $260k
Normalized to USD per year

Growth

Hiring Momentum
28/100
Slowing
Open positions
2
0 opened / 0 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
27 days
faster than 50% of the market
ATS activity
Every ~5 hours
Today
Hiring Dynamics 0%
Hiring Focus
The percentage next to each role is its share of the company's job openings over the last 90 days; the arrow shows the shift versus the previous period.
Backend
33% ▲
Operations
33% ▲
Industrial Engineering
33% ▲

Tech stack

Technologies named in job postings at Sauron over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
20
Postings analysed
3
Stack modernity
67/100
Languages
C++
Python
C
Frameworks & libraries
GStreamer
Abseil
FFmpeg
PyTorch
Cloud & platforms
Linux
LiveKit
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Connections

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Shared investors3
AtomicVia a fund
20 portfolio companies: Found, BoomPop, Homebound and 17 more
Shrug CapitalVia a fund
88 portfolio companies: Community, Overtime, Blank Street and 85 more
240 portfolio companies: Reactor, 11x, 0G and 237 more

News

News Bleeding Cool News 2 months ago
Unleash Sauron with Iron Studios: The Lord of the Rings 1/10 Statue
Clear off some shelf space as a new wave of 1/10 Art Scale Statues from Iron Studios is on the way including The Lord of the Rings
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News flickeringmyth 2 months ago
Sauron is Unleashed with Iron Studios' new The Lord of the Rings collectible statue
Iron Studios has officially revealed the 1:10 scale Sauron Unleased statue which is inspired by the appearance of the Dark Lord of Mordor in Peter Jackson's epic fantasy trilogy The Lord of the…
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News NewsBytes 2 months ago
Sauron obsessed with forging One Ring after Celebrimbor
Season three of _The Rings of Power_ will finally introduce the One Ring, as Sauron struggles to craft his ultimate weapon amidst personal challenges and setbacks.
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News Education Next 2 months ago
Public Schools' Eye of Sauron
Surveillance of student speech is now reaching into off-campus email drafts as grounds for punishment
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The Eye of Sauron? Réservoir Manicouagan
I spy a circular-looking water body that looks almost like a ring, or maybe a flaming eyeball (maybe the Eye of Sauron?!) or perhaps a...
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News blog.southparkcommons.com 8 months ago
Avoiding The Eye of Sauron
Which companies are actually at risk
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News X (formerly Twitter) 8 months ago
Vlad (@VladTheInflator) on X
New cars allegedly include "eye of sauron" to monitor drivers.Fuck that
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News TechCrunch 11 months ago
Sauron, the high-end home security startup for 'super premium' customers, plucks a new CEO out of Sonos
Sauron is appearing on the scene as concerns rise about crime among the most wealthy.
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News Collider 1 year ago
Why Do We Only Ever See Sauron as an Eye in Lord of the Rings If He's a Such a Powerful Shapeshifter?
When destroyed by Isildur, Sauron's spirit was unable to take form again until he was reunited with the One Ring, and lost his shapeshitfting power.
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Offices

Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
1
Hiring now
1
Countries
1
Busiest office
San Francisco
San Francisco United States
HQ
2 open roles 3 posted in 90 days 10-50 est. staff $176k Avg Salary
hires for Operations, Industrial Engineering
seen since Sep 2026 job postings