Conntour raises $7M to let security teams search camera video by text

In short: Conntour, an Israeli startup, raised $7 million to build software that lets security teams search across thousands of camera feeds using everyday text.

What happened

Conntour is a startup founded in 2024 in Israel. It makes a system that turns security camera footage into something you can search, almost like a library catalog for video. A security operator can type a request such as “Find a man with tattoos on his left arm,” or “Notify me if someone climbs over the wall.”

The company says its tool works on live video and on older, stored recordings. It is designed to help one person monitor large camera networks and to review big amounts of video in minutes, not hours. Conntour says this can cut down on false alarms and missed incidents, compared with older systems that only watch for a small set of preset things.

Conntour was founded by CEO Matan Goldner and Tomer Kola, who have backgrounds in computer vision (software that helps computers understand images and video). The company has 14 employees in Tel Aviv, and it has taken part in Palantir’s Startup Fellowship and Y Combinator’s Winter 2025 batch.

In 2026, Conntour raised $7 million in a seed funding round led by General Catalyst, with participation from Y Combinator, SV Angel, Liquid 2 Ventures, and others. The company says its technology is deployed in Singapore for homeland security uses, including border control and public venues, and it can also be installed on premises (run on a customer’s own machines).

Why it matters

More places have cameras than people to watch them. Tools like this aim to reduce the time humans spend staring at screens by letting them “search” video after the fact or get faster alerts when something unusual happens.

Source: TechCrunch AI