I’m excited to announce that RapidSOS has raised $30M in Series B funding to further our mission to transform global emergency communication. This round further accelerates our work with public safety over the past six months:
Four years ago, as I tried to learn more about public safety, I had a rule that I needed to talk to at least two PSAPs per day. Four years and thousands of conversations later – I remain humbled by how much the public safety community has come...
Wow – what a year! From new team members and a new office, to thousands of miles of travel and new partnerships, 2016 was undeniably the most interesting and exciting year yet for RapidSOS. Here's my top 10:
Congrats! @RapidSOS won Startup of the Year at the 2016 Innovation Entrepreneur Awards! #InnovateCelebrate pic.twitter.com/crG2QM8gJ5
— Consumer Tech Assocn (@CTATech) September 21, 2016
We're thrilled to announce that RapidSOS has won the...
Newtown, Brussels, Paris, San Bernardino, Orlando, and now Istanbul -- hate and terror that tries to divide us, to push away from a society of freedom and acceptance to one of walls and fear. The thoughts of our entire team go out to those...
Reflecting on the last three years of endless meetings, conversations, and late nights at the Harvard Innovation Lab and MIT Martin Trust Center, the ups and downs of pouring oneself into your passion – I keep returning to how fortunate I feel to...
Pictured: RapidSOS 9-1-1 Advisory Board member, Wolfgang Kampichler, and RapidSOS Director of Product & 9-1-1,
Reinhard Ekl, at the 2016 NENA Conference
Wow! What a journey it has been, chasing our vision of transforming emergency response and...
Less than a month ago on Last Week Tonight, John Oliver articulated his frustrations with our nation’s dangerously outdated 9-1-1 infrastructure. Despite the challenges of this infrastructure, 9-1-1 telecommunicators do extraordinary work: saving...
Tonight, on HBO’s Last Week Tonight, John Oliver expressed his frustration with the current state of our nation’s 9-1-1 infrastructure. During his 15-minute main segment, over 5,000 Americans called 9-1-1 for help from cell phones:
Still running on a system dating from 1968, 9-1-1 has managed over 2 billion calls since inception – this year, let’s get dispatchers every tool possible to manage the next 2 billion.
