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Founder174Current founder
93rd percentile
Investor33Current investor
74th percentile
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Founder & CEO of Flock Safety, a $7.5B YC-backed public safety unicorn
Credibility
this founder typical founder (50th pct)
Traction · 96th percentile
- Flock Safety last raised $275M at a $7.5 billion valuation (2025), making Langley a unicorn founder.
- Experience LLC was acquired by Cox Enterprises for over $200M in 2014, and Firethorn was acquired by Qualcomm for $210M in 2007 — combined acquisition value of approximately $410M.
- Featured speaker at The Montgomery Summit — a notable technology and venture conference — demonstrating thought-leadership recognition.
- TechCrunch published a dedicated feature article on Flock Safety's $275M raise, prominently profiling Garrett Langley as founder and CEO.
- Past co-founder of Experience LLC, acquired by Cox Enterprises in 2014.
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Founder score
- 99%Probability of being accurate (99%)Current Founder & CEO of Flock Safety, actively running the company he co-founded in 2017.
- 97%Probability of being accurate (97%)Flock Safety last raised $275M at a $7.5 billion valuation.
- 97%Probability of being accurate (97%)Flock Safety is a Y Combinator S17 alum.
- 95%Probability of being accurate (95%)flocksafety.com ranks #47,688 on the Majestic Million (global domain prominence).
- 95%Probability of being accurate (95%)Past co-founder of Experience LLC, acquired by Cox Enterprises in 2014.
- 90%Probability of being accurate (90%)Experience LLC was acquired by Cox Enterprises for over $200M in 2014, and Firethorn was acquired by Qualcomm for $210M in 2007 — combined acquisition value of approximately $410M.
- 90%Probability of being accurate (90%)TechCrunch published a dedicated feature article on Flock Safety's $275M raise, prominently profiling Garrett Langley as founder and CEO.
- 85%Probability of being accurate (85%)Flock Safety was co-founded with other co-founders.
- 82%Probability of being accurate (82%)Featured speaker at The Montgomery Summit — a notable technology and venture conference — demonstrating thought-leadership recognition.
- 80%Probability of being accurate (80%)Identified GitHub account @garrettlangley confirmed by name match.
- 80%Probability of being accurate (80%)Tenured GitHub account created in 2010, over 14 years old.
- 75%Probability of being accurate (75%)Active builder with 12 public non-fork repos on GitHub.
- 72%Probability of being accurate (72%)YouTube interview 'Garrett Langley, Flock Safety CEO: How to Succeed At Flock' has 13,365 views — thought-leadership reach.
Investor score
- 82%Probability of being accurate (82%)Publicly identified as an angel investor with investments including Sauron, Cerrion, and Owner.
- 78%Probability of being accurate (78%)Has made at least 3 known angel investments (Sauron, Cerrion, Owner).
- 60%Probability of being accurate (60%)Portfolio company Cerrion raised a Series A at €18M — a smaller disclosed acquisition/investment exit signal.
- 55%Probability of being accurate (55%)Investing activity began around 2017 with Flock Safety's founding, giving approximately 8 years of investing experience.
- 50%Probability of being accurate (50%)Stack Overflow account identified for Garrett Langley with 13 reputation.
What you likely need
As the founder and CEO of a $7.5B unicorn in public safety tech, you're at a stage where your most valuable conversations are with other late-stage founders navigating hypergrowth, enterprise GTM, and the unique pressures of building in a regulated, politically sensitive space. You'd benefit most from peer dinners with other YC founders who've scaled past $1B valuations, roundtables on enterprise sales and government contracting, and sessions on managing a 1,000+ person org while staying close to product.
Would you attend these IRL Festival events?
We will tune and customize your Founder Festival experience to make sure you get invited to the events that would be most valuable to you.
- introsA YC S17/S18 unicorn founder dinner for peer exchange on scaling past $1B ARR and navigating late-stage fundraising dynamics.
- tacticalA GovTech and public safety GTM roundtable with founders selling into law enforcement and municipal governments to share enterprise sales playbooks.
- wellbeingA hypergrowth CEO peer group dinner for founders managing 1,000+ person organizations through rapid headcount scaling.
- fundraisingAn a16z and Tiger Global portfolio founder happy hour to deepen relationships with your existing investor network ahead of a potential IPO.
- hiringA Georgia Tech alumni founder dinner in Atlanta to recruit senior engineering talent from one of the top EE programs in the country.
- introsAn angel investor roundtable for active operator-angels to share deal flow in defense tech, public safety, and AI infrastructure.
- positioningA positioning workshop with other founders in politically sensitive tech verticals on narrative strategy, press management, and community trust-building.