Lytehouse

Lytehouse is a Singapore-founded deep tech company that layers video intelligence software onto existing CCTV infrastructure so that camera feeds can be interpreted automatically rather than watched continuously by human operators. The platform integrates with cameras of varying brands and models without hardware replacement, and can also feed into a customer's existing VMS or PSIM. Its analytics support detection scenarios including intrusion, loitering, crowd formation, absence of a person, people counting and tailgating, with the company stating detection of over 90 object types plus attributes such as speed, rotation and direction within defined areas of interest.

The product is organised around a detect-review-action-manage workflow: users onboard cameras and create rules through a self-service interface; incidents are tracked automatically across multiple cameras and can be annotated and reviewed alongside live streams in a single dashboard; events can be grouped into investigation folders for coordination with teams and clients; and administrators get site onboarding, mass rule creation, camera health monitoring, virtual patrol and reporting that surfaces outlier cameras and operator performance. A mobile-friendly interface allows access to sites, cameras and alerts remotely.

According to a December 2025 profile, the company positions its technology as reasoning about scenes rather than matching predefined objects or actions, describing the system as a co-pilot for physical spaces that interprets behaviour and anticipates risk. Beyond security, the company describes applications spanning retail operations, health and safety, logistics and manufacturing, and states that privacy constraints keep its intelligence focused on activity rather than identity.

Founding story

Co-founder and CEO Natalie Doran began her career writing animation scripts and developing worlds for children's games rather than in engineering, and founded Lytehouse in 2019. She met co-founder and CTO Jean-Vicente De Carvalho at Entrepreneur First; De Carvalho's family in South Africa had been robbed 37 times at gunpoint, and the pair bonded over making communities as safe as Singapore. An early validation came when their prototype, Scout, was installed in De Carvalho's father's retail store and detected a cashier stealing from the till along with an apparent accomplice, a movement subtle enough that the founders had to review the footage repeatedly — an episode the company cites as the origin of its focus on reasoning rather than reaction.

Business model

Lytehouse sells software that runs on top of customers' existing camera estates, and also recruits distributors and channel partners; its website carries a "Become a Distributor" call to action and testimonials from distributors and integrators in South Africa and Singapore. Specific pricing terms are not disclosed in the sources.

Traction

The company reports raising US$1.9 million to date as of December 2025 and cites a deployment with FairPrice Group, described as Singapore's largest retailer, within its Store of Tomorrow initiative, where the system handles spill detection, queue management and trip-hazard alerts. Its website carries named testimonials from six distributor, integrator and monitoring partners in South Africa and Singapore. No revenue, customer count or headcount figures are disclosed in the sources.

Latest developments

A December 2025 profile reports the FairPrice Group Store of Tomorrow deployment, cumulative funding of US$1.9 million, and the company's stated plan to scale the retail model to other large retailers and adjacent sectors such as health and safety, logistics and manufacturing as each deployment adds data.