Noonlight, formerly SafeTrek, is a
software company founded in 2013 by CEO Zach Winkler and co-founders Aaron Kunnemann, Brittany LeComte and Nick Droege. Noonlight provides
professional monitoring and emergency response through their
personal safety app and
APIs. The app is available for both
Android and
iOS
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devices.
Background
The app was founded on the
University of Missouri
The University of Missouri (Mizzou or MU) is a public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in Columbia, Missouri, United States. It is Missouri's largest university and the flagship of the four-campus Univers ...
campus in 2013 by Zach Winkler, Aaron Kunnemann, Brittany LeComte and Nick Droege as part of a technology competition. It was developed as a mobile solution to the
blue lights found on the university’s campus.
Noonlight has since grown into a
software company whose
APIs are used to integrate personal safety services,
professional sensor monitoring,
, and emergency response to other companies' products and
IoT devices including
Wyze,
Sabre
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, and
Roku
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As of 2024, Roku is the U ...
.
In October 2022, Alarm.com acquired a majority stake in Noonlight. The terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
The Noonlight app has been reported in local media to have helped stop two kidnappings.
Data collection and analysis
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'' has reported that Noonlight shares data with
ad tech companies, such as
Meta and
Google
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. The company has denied that it sells user data.
References
External links
* {{Official website, https://www.noonlight.com/
Security software
Android (operating system) software
IOS software
Location-based software
Law enforcement in the United States
Proprietary software
Emergency management software
University of Missouri