Rave Mobile Safety (formerly Rave Wireless) is an American software company founded in
New York City in 2004, and currently based in
Framingham, Massachusetts. The company provides a suite of
software applications
Software is a set of computer programs and associated documentation and data. This is in contrast to hardware, from which the system is built and which actually performs the work.
At the lowest programming level, executable code consists o ...
for safety. Early investors included
Bain Capital Ventures, Sigma Partners, and
RRE Ventures
RRE Ventures is an American Venture capital, Venture Capital firm based in New York City. The firm primarily invests in Seed money, seed, Series A round, series A and series B rounds and focuses on companies operating in the software, internet, c ...
. More recently,
Technology Crossover Ventures took a lead investment position
The company claims a total of 8,000 contracted clients representing 1,800
higher education institutions, 10,000 K-12 schools, 3,00 public safety agencies and
9-1-1
, usually written 911, is an emergency telephone number for the United States, Canada, Mexico, Panama, Palau, Argentina, Philippines, Jordan, as well as the North American Numbering Plan (NANP), one of eight N11 codes. Like other emergency nu ...
centers in all 50
U.S. states as customers, with over 50 million individuals protected.5
History
Initially the company was focused primarily on higher education institutes and offered customized mobile phone services and associated services. Their first customer was Montclair State University in NJ, which won the Jeanne Clery Campus Safety award for their implementation of the Rave Guardian product. The company moved into solely focusing on safety applications and now has a broader portfolio of applications used by Emergency Management Agencies, corporate safety offices, law enforcement, and schools.
In 2015, the company announced a new product, Rave Panic Button, which was launched in Everett (WA) Schools, in Snohomish County, Washington. Schools across both Nassau and Suffolk Counties in NY have used it.
In 2017, the company expanded into Canada, acquiring ERMS, a Canadian emergency notification provider.
References
External links
*https://www.nbcnews.com/nightly-news/video/family-pushes-for-smart911-upgrades-after-tragedy-1282656835635
Companies based in Framingham, Massachusetts
Software companies of the United States
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