Sauron, the high-end home security startup for “super premium” customers, plucks a new CEO out of Sonos

Sauron, a startup founded by Kevin Hartz, Jack Abraham, and Vasumathi Raman, is building a premium home security platform combining multi-sensor camera pods, server-side machine learning, and 24/7 human monitoring, with a deterrence-first strategy and potential features like license plate and facial recognition. Under new CEO Maxime Bouvat-Merlin, the company has pushed its timeline to late 2026, plans early-adopter deployments and a mid-2026 Series A, and aims to grow through partnerships while navigating privacy concerns and catering initially to affluent customers.