We’re excited to share our latest $100 million financing round, led by the Apax Digital Funds. This investment brings the total capital raised to over $450 million – marking a historic investment in emergency response AI.
Today over 22,000 federal, state, local, and defense agencies and 50% of the US Fortune 10 use RapidSOS’ AI platform for emergency response.
Built in partnership with public safety and across 1 billion emergencies supported, RapidSOS AI is powered by the safety network – over 600 million connected sensors, devices, and cameras that harness RapidSOS AI for advanced emergency detection and response.
This investment accelerates RapidSOS’ focus on partnering to transform emergency response. Born from deep R&D collaboration with over a thousand early first responder users, today most of big tech, large enterprise, and government emergency response are unified on RapidSOS’ AI response platform.
The result is immediate detection of an emergency or mass incident, coordinated response across public and private sectors, and mission critical intelligence directly to the heroic humans fighting the incident.
RapidSOS HARMONY, the first purpose-built AI for public safety, delivers this intelligence and was designed to save critical time by automatically detecting emergencies, unifying real-time data and video streams, and coordinating a faster, more effective response.
HARMONY is fueled by the world’s largest safety network of devices, enterprises, and public safety agencies that grows stronger and smarter with every new connection – creating one, interoperable picture of an incident:
“We’ve had the extraordinary privilege of learning from the heroic work of first responders across over one billion emergencies,” said Michael Martin, Founder and CEO of RapidSOS. “This funding further accelerates our work to support first responders. We’re accelerating R&D efforts into our AI with the aim to prevent one million emergencies by 2030.”
This commitment to prevention is already yielding results. In rural Michigan, a heroic team of first responders utilized RapidSOS-enabled crash detection, dispatching aid just 13 seconds after the crash was detected—a response that pulled the survivor from his vehicle seconds before it was engulfed in flames.
“RapidSOS’ data infrastructure underpins much of modern safety, security, and disaster response,” said Patrick Kane, Partner at Apax Digital. “As we diligenced the platform, it became clear that this foundational data layer, operationalized through the company’s AI, plays a critical role in powering emergency management in agencies across a dozen countries, covering nearly 700 million people. We are excited to support the team as they continue delivering and advancing essential capabilities for public safety stakeholders worldwide.”
With this investment, RapidSOS will continue to invest in scaling the safety network, deepening interoperability across 911 and field-response workflows, and advancing its suite of AI tools that transform how emergencies are triaged, analyzed, and resolved. Plans also continue international expansion and partnering with governments and global technology providers to continue to modernize emergency infrastructure; all while maintaining our unwavering commitment to collaboration with the public safety community.