Sunstates Security
The Firm
Sunstates Security was founded in 1998, works from 801 Corporate Center Drive in Raleigh, and describes itself as one of America's top ten largest security providers with a consistent 25 percent annual growth rate over the last decade. Its published growth is mostly organic, and its acquisitions are occasional rather than programmatic.
The distinction that matters in this trade is manned guarding versus technology. Several of the largest names buying in security are buying electronic systems, monitoring and integration; Sunstates bought Watch Guard 24/7, a solution-based security guarding company, which is officers on posts. A guard company owner should establish which of the two a bidder is really after, because it decides whether the contracts or the equipment carry the value.
One honest gap: its second acquisition, TorchStone Global, has a page on its own site with no date printed on it, so it is not recorded here. A dateless announcement is not evidence of when something happened, and the rule that keeps this registry usable is the same rule that leaves that deal out.
What It Buys
Raleigh, North Carolina. A Raleigh guard company in the country's top ten by its own count, compounding a quarter a year and buying regional guarding firms rather than security technology businesses.
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Confirmed Deals
1 deal traced to announcements by Sunstates Security, 2025, newest first. Firms that announce every deal show a fuller run here than firms that report acquisitions as quarterly counts, so read this as the evidence that clears the bar rather than as the firm's whole record.
- WATCH GUARD 24/7 · September 26, 2025
Built as a solution-based security guarding company specializing in an increasingly large market of providers.