HavenLock's Gen4 Lock Moves Into National Distribution

HavenLock, a Veteran Ventures Capital Fund I portfolio company and veteran-owned access control manufacturer based in Nashville, is shipping its Haven Gen4 Access Control System to authorized distributors and building the national dealer and integrator network behind it. The company announced commercial availability in March, with shipments to distributors beginning in June, and in September appointed Jason Lutz, a 30-year security industry veteran, Senior Vice President of Sales and Channel to lead the rollout as the company moves from launch into national distribution.

Gen4 is a top-of-door mounted system designed to replace magnetic locks and electric strikes. Developed in partnership with Alarm.com and the United States Air Force, it integrates directly into the Alarm.com ecosystem for centralized control, mobile access management and event monitoring, works with other existing access control platforms, and holds UL 294 and UL 10C listings, NFPA 101 one-motion egress and ADA compliance, and a Department of Homeland Security SAFETY Act designation.

"The Haven Gen4 represents a step change for the Access Control industry," said Alex Bertelli, HavenLock's CEO, when the availability date was announced.

In October the company took the lock to its dealer channel. It sponsored the Alarm.com Partner Summit in Washington (October 7 to 9) and the Brivo Cloud Security Summit in Dallas (October 26 to 29), joined the PDK ProConnect Roadshow in the Washington and Baltimore area, and announced a Gen4 market education tour for the following week through SDS branches in Bossier City, Baton Rouge, Metairie and Mandeville, Louisiana, and in Alabama. Phil Leverette, CEO of dealer ECT Fire & Security and a HavenLock board member, wrote in early October that his company had sold out its first shipment of the locks and half of its second.

Veteran Ventures Capital invested in HavenLock through Fund I.

VVC's view: a lock company's hardest quarter is the one in which the product leaves the factory and has to be sold and installed by other people's technicians. HavenLock has spent October where that happens, on distributors' floors and at the partner summits of the platforms the lock plugs into, and the first dealer reports say installers are choosing it for the time it saves at the door. We would rather see a Fund I company earn its channel one branch at a time than announce it, and that is what this quarter looks like.

Sources: SDM — HavenLock Announces Availability Date of Gen4 Access Control Platform (March 17, 2026); SDM — Companies You Should Know: HavenLock (April 27, 2026); HavenLock — Jason Lutz appointment release (September 21, 2026); Security Systems News — HavenLock appoints Jason Lutz SVP of sales and channel (September 22, 2026); HavenLock — Alarm.com Partner Summit sponsorship and Phil Leverette shipment report repost (October 9, 2026); HavenLock — PDK ProConnect Roadshow, Washington/Baltimore (October 14, 2026); HavenLock — Brivo Cloud Security Summit sponsorship announcement (October 22, 2026); HavenLock — SDS market education tour announcement (October 23, 2026); Phil Leverette — First shipment sold out and half of second shipment sold; Alarm.com — Partner Summit 2026 official dates, venue and sponsors; NFPA Global Solutions — Technical Code Compliance Report, hosted by HavenLock.