Dark Watch, a Stuart, FL-based company advancing real-time threat intelligence for the hospitality industry, has raised $3.5 million in a Seed funding round led by Eagle Venture Fund.
The round also saw participation from His Kingdom Resources and Blu Ventures.
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The company intends to use the funds to accelerate product development, enhance safety intelligence capabilities, integrate further with hospitality enterprise systems, and increase commercial deployments with hospitality clients.
Dark Watch is a company developing real-time threat intelligence for the hospitality industry. As travel increases and criminal activity moves into digital travel systems, many hotel and travel platforms cannot detect risks until incidents happen. Dark Watch was founded to solve this problem by providing real-time visibility into the systems that serve millions of travellers every day.
Dark Watch is pioneering an embedded safety intelligence layer for hospitality, designed to detect high-risk individuals before arrival. At the core of the platform is a proprietary, unified data platform combined with advanced AI models delivering instant threat intelligence that ensures the safety of families and protects brand reputations. Built to integrate directly in the hospitality digital ecosystem, Dark Watch sends real-time threat signals at the critical moment—before check-in and access—without disrupting guest experience or existing hotel workflows.
“Criminal networks exploit the same digital infrastructure that powers modern hospitality—payments, reservations, and booking systems,” said Noel Thomas, CEO of Dark Watch. “Hotels should not have to choose between guest experience, and safety. Dark Watch embeds real time threat intelligence directly into those systems to stop bad actors before check in without disrupting legitimate travellers. This funding allows us to scale that capability across the industry.”
“We’re excited by the traction Dark Watch has achieved across hospitality, travel, and entertainment,” said Ted Olsen, Partner at Blu Venture Investors. “This round positions the company to scale its product and go-to-market capabilities, bringing advanced threat intelligence solutions to a broader and increasingly global customer base.”
About Dark Watch
Founded in 2004, Dark Watch provides a safety intelligence platform that helps industries like hospitality, finance, and law enforcement identify high-risk individuals before incidents occur. The platform uses AI and deep web intelligence to analyse over 450 million profiles in real time, detecting threats such as organised crime, trafficking, and terrorism. Originally launched in 2015 with the Zero Trafficking initiative to support government efforts against human trafficking, Dark Watch now delivers real-time intelligence that integrates easily into existing systems to help organisations prevent crime and improve safety.
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