Legio, a Toronto company building software for campus public safety, raised a $5m seed round entirely from Klass Capital, a Toronto growth equity firm. The round was announced on 11 August 2026 through Business Wire, according to CIO Influence, and BetaKit reported the same day.
BetaKit put the amount at about C$7m. No valuation was disclosed.
CIO Influence described Legio as aimed at the security and public safety teams of colleges and universities, which it said have relied on general-purpose enterprise tools.
“Campus public safety has been running on platforms built for generic enterprise and bolted on for higher education.”Darren Hill, Co-Founder and CEO, Legio
What Legio does
Legio calls itself an AI-native safety and security operations platform built for higher education. It combines dispatch, incident response, case management, patrol tracking and asset management in one system of record.
Reports colleges must produce, such as the daily crime log and the Annual Security Report, are generated from live operational data, so officers do not have to compile them by hand. Chief executive Darren Hill told BetaKit that the work of documenting the shift crowds out the work of protecting the campus, and that the company's focus is not about arming campus police.
The platform's modules include incident management, guard tours, dispatch, case management, regulatory reporting and asset management. Safety staff stay involved in producing the compliance documents, Pulse 2.0 reported.
Who is behind it
Hill, Mike Wertman and Joe Crampton are the founders. BetaKit named Wertman as chief technology officer and Crampton as chief product officer, and reported that Hill is an operating partner at Klass while Wertman is Klass's chief technology officer. CIO Influence said the three have experience in campus public safety and enterprise security software.
BetaKit reported that the company was founded in 2026.
The sources did not give a headcount.
Why Klass backed it
Daniel Klass, managing partner of Klass Capital, said the opportunity has deep domain complexity, regulatory tailwinds and an incumbent stack a decade behind. He said the Legio team brings the domain expertise to rebuild it.
Hill said in the release that campus public safety has been running on platforms built for generic enterprise use and bolted on for higher education, and that Legio is rebuilding the category from the ground up.
What the money is for
Legio will spend the funds on product development, engineering hires and its design partner programme with college and university public safety departments. BetaKit reported that it has two post-secondary institutions in that programme so far. None are named.
Klass said Legio's AI-native architecture is the right foundation for a market overdue for change, according to Pulse 2.0. Pulse 2.0 added that Legio positions itself against campus safety products adapted from general enterprise security software, and that campus teams carry heavy reporting obligations alongside round-the-clock operations.
Company website: getlegio.com