Rave Mobile Safety announces 12th consecutive year of revenue growth

FRAMINGHAM, Mass.—Rave Mobile Safety (Rave), provider of the critical communication and collaboration platform customers count on when it matters most, has announced its 12th consecutive year of revenue growth.

Government agencies, corporations and educational institutions continued to turn to Rave to power their critical communication and collaboration efforts. Rave’s solutions sent close to 2 billion messages in 2021, a 30 percent increase over 2020, and were utilized in an incident response every 12 seconds.

In 2021, more than 500 new customers across the education, corporate and public sectors leveraged Rave’s solutions to address their most pressing safety and communication challenges, including enhancing response to natural disasters through targeted emergency mass notifications, ongoing communication about COVID-19, timely notifications on cyberattacks and system outages, managing compliance with established business continuity procedures, swiftly addressing threats of violence and providing first responders with increased situational awareness.

Key customers include all 14 universities in the Big Ten Conference in higher education; the Denver Health and Hospital Authority, CoxHealth and Inova Health System in healthcare; Lear Corporation, Michigan University Federal Credit Union and Seaboard Foods in corporate and manufacturing; and statewide deployments in Arkansas, Delaware, Hawaii, Florida, Louisiana, New Mexico and Oklahoma.

“We rely on our partnership with Rave Mobile Safety to keep residents and visitors informed with LENSAlert and first responders aware with Rave’s Smart911 service,” said Jody Meiman, Louisville Metro Emergency Services Executive Director. “We urge Louisville residents to sign-up for Smart911 as a free and private service to share critical personal and medical information that allows first responders to arrive on scene prepared with the right knowledge and resources in an emergency, saving critical time when seconds count.”

AppArmor acquisition extends market leadership

Momentum continued into the start of 2022 with Rave’s recent acquisition of AppArmor, the industry leader in providing custom-branded mobile safety apps. Together, Rave and AppArmor offer a scalable and robust critical communication and collaboration platform with added agile mobile app customization capabilities. The combination delivers best-in-class product innovation, mobile-first customization and customer-focused services in safety and incident response solutions.

Rave Aware enables CAD data sharing

Rave’s continued growth comes at a time when public safety agencies are increasingly looking for ways to speed response, share data, increase collaboration and enhance responder safety. To solve for this need, Rave recently launched Rave Aware, a new solution that enables Computer Aided Dispatch (CAD) data sharing and facilitates interoperability between CAD systems. 9-1-1 call centers and emergency response agencies benefit from improved operational efficiencies and greater situational awareness across jurisdictions.

RapidDeploy partnership seamlessly delivers Rave data to 9-1-1

Rave has also partnered with RapidDeploy to provide Rave data into 9-1-1 call centers to better inform emergency response, get help onsite more quickly and add context on the caller’s condition. The integration of Rave’s Smart911 emergency profiles, facility floor plans and Rave Panic Button event data into RapidDeploy’s RadiusPlus mapping system seamlessly delivers additional critical information to the telecommunicator’s native interface.

“We share Rave’s mission to ensure the best response in a crisis for our communities and first responders,” said Steven Raucher, RapidDeploy co-founder and CEO. “Our partnership with Rave allows us to share critical life-saving information with telecommunicators, directly on the map as part of the 9-1-1 workflow.”

Operational messaging expands notifications beyond emergency alerts

Rave has introduced operational messaging to expand communications beyond emergency alerts to informational updates, sales promotions and marketing messages.

Driven by the goal to prevent spam messages and strengthen emergency messages, Rave supports the industry’s new 10-digit long code (10DLC) requirements. Organizations can send both operational messages and emergency messages from different, clearly defined phone numbers in line with the latest requirements from mobile carriers.

“The face of public safety and critical communication is constantly evolving, and we are committed to providing our customers with solutions that solve for their most pressing challenges,” said Todd Piett, Rave CEO. “It’s more important than ever that emergency response and critical data are taken out of siloes so those tasked with public safety can share information and seamlessly work together to protect their communities.”

Recent recognition for Rave is highlighted by inclusion in BuiltIn’s Best Midsize Places to Work in Boston list, a 2021 Security Today New Product of the Year Award (Rave Collaborate), and the Mass Technology Leadership Council Tech Top 50.