Conshohocken’s ZeroEyes Bets $10 Million on AI Research and 100 Veteran Hires

CONSHOHOCKEN — ZeroEyes, the Conshohocken company whose AI detects visible firearms on security cameras, is investing $10 million in artificial intelligence research and plans to hire more than 100 military veterans across Southeastern Pennsylvania over the next two years.

The company announced the plan this summer at Sen. Dave McCormick’s 2026 Pennsylvania Defense and Innovation Summit at the Army War College in Carlisle.

The new roles include technical program managers for AI, MLOps engineers and AI solutions specialists. Veterans already make up about three-quarters of the company’s 200-person workforce.

“This investment marks a critical milestone in our evolution into a unified threat intelligence platform,” said Mike Lahiff, the company’s CEO and co-founder. “We are excited to accelerate our technology roadmap while deepening our commitment to the veteran community within our home of Southeastern Pennsylvania.”

The money will fund a 3,000-square-foot experimental AI lab for generating training data and testing detection models, plus the company’s Conshohocken operations center, an in-house hub staffed largely by military and law enforcement veterans.

Founded in 2018 by former Navy SEALs, ZeroEyes built its name on AI that flags guns in camera feeds and routes the alert to a human analyst before notifying security or police. It has since added knife detection and real-time threat geolocation.

The system does not use facial recognition and does not dispatch police based solely on an algorithm, the company says.

The expansion reflects a broader bet that AI security tools, paired with human judgment, will keep finding buyers among schools, businesses and public venues.