Garrett Langley

Langley studied at the Georgia Institute of Technology and received a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering in 2009; while there, he served in various leadership roles at his fraternity, Sigma Chi. He has said he had been an entrepreneur since his school days.⁠[1][2][3][4]

Before Flock, Langley founded two companies: Experience, a mobile technology company focused on helping fans have a better time at live events, which was later acquired by Cox Enterprises; and Clutch, a monthly car subscription service. He has summed up these two ventures as being in entirely different fields: mobile ticketing and vehicle subscription.⁠[1][1][4]

After future Flock co-founder Paige Todd reconnected with Langley, the two worked together on two startups.⁠[2][2]

Langley left the second startup at the end of December, and by April or May of the following year he and Todd were participating in a startup accelerator in San Francisco. In 2017, he co-founded Flock Safety with Matt Feury and Paige Todd and became its CEO; that same year the company joined Y Combinator’s Summer 2017 batch.⁠[2][5][4]

He recalled that the company grew out of a rash of home and vehicle break-ins in his metro Atlanta neighborhood, where police had very limited avenues to investigate; as an electrical engineer, he envisioned an affordable solution. He said his conviction was that with the right team, technology, and policies, it would be possible not only to solve crime but to eliminate it.⁠[4][4][4]

In 2018, just after Langley had closed Flock’s Series A, Bedrock Capital founder Geoff Lewis flew to Atlanta to ask him to take a $10 million Series A-1 investment; Langley took the money.⁠[6][6][6]

On April 23, 2022, the Georgia Tech College of Engineering held its alumni awards, at which Langley was honored by the Council of Outstanding Young Engineering Alumni. At the time he served on the Georgia Tech Alumni Association Board of Trustees and the Athletic Association’s Board of Trustees.⁠[1][1][1]

On March 13, 2025, Flock announced a $275 million fundraise at a $7.5 billion valuation. Langley said the company’s founding vision was to eliminate crime, and that as its products and reach expanded to more than 5,000 communities across the United States, the vision had expanded to providing the tools for cities, businesses, and communities to thrive.⁠[7][7][7]

In August 2025, Flock admitted it had run a pilot program with U.S. Customs and Border Protection, although Langley had previously denied that the company had federal contracts. He then issued a statement acknowledging that there had been conflicting media reports about Flock’s relationship with federal agencies, that some of the company’s public statements had inadvertently provided inaccurate information, that it had “communicated poorly,” and that it had not created distinct permissions and protocols in the system for federal users to ensure local compliance. He announced a pause of all pilot programs with federal agencies and tasked the company’s top lawyer with overseeing the rollout of new compliance tools.⁠[8][8][8][9][9][9][9]

In September 2025, in a video interview with Forbes, Langley called DeFlock, a crowdsourced project mapping the locations of license plate reader cameras, “terroristic.” Will Freeman, who runs DeFlock, responded that all they had done was make a website mapping the cameras and that they encourage people to oppose mass surveillance legally and respectfully. Flock did not respond to NPR’s question about why he had used the word.⁠[8][8][8][8]

In October of that year, in an email sent to Flock customers, Langley wrote that the company and its partner law enforcement agencies were under “coordinated attack” from “the same activist groups who want to defund the police, weaken public safety, and normalize lawlessness.” Jim Williams, police chief of Staunton, Virginia, wrote back disagreeing with that characterization and saying that local residents raising questions “is democracy in action”; a few days later the city announced it was ending its Flock contract.⁠[8][8][8][8][8][8]

Flock Safety: Official website: https://www.flocksafety.com/ (opens in a new window).⁠[4]