Sonny Tai
Founder/CEOFounder at Verdun. Previously founded and led Actuate (computer vision for physical security) as CEO for 7 years. Former US Marine Corps Captain and Afghanistan veteran.
Founder profile As recorded 2026-10-26
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Business
Verdun
Overview
Traditional security camera monitoring is vaporware. Your sites aren't actually being protected.
A monitoring center's video alarm queue is managed by operators who are flooded by alarms during peak activity - meaning it often takes 20+ minutes for them to even see your alarm.
When you call an airline and get placed on hold for a long time only for an offshore operator to tell you he can't solve your problems, this is the security equivalent.
We've built the world's most advanced monitoring center run by AI agents identify threatening behavior and context before escalating to our highly trained professional operators to dispatch guards and police.
Company description As recorded 2026-11-08
Founders & team
Tung Thanh Hoang
Founder/CTOFounder at Verdun. Previously Senior Software Engineer - AI at LinkedIn, where he built Function Calling for LinkedIn's 8B foundation model that outperformed GPT-4o on the Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard. Led Continued Pre-Training and large-scale retrieval systems. PhD in Applied Mathematics from UIC.
Founder profile As recorded 2026-10-26
6team members reported
Source-reported As recorded 2026-10-26
Founded 2026 · Source
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Location · source statedSan Francisco, CA, USA
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