WalkSafe

What WalkSafe does

WalkSafe is a UK-based personal safety technology company founded in 2020 (legal entity Chaperhome Ltd., headquartered in Chester) that operates a GPS-enabled mobile safety platform across iOS and Android. The platform combines real-time journey sharing, an interactive national Safety Map of accredited safe-space venues (Ask for Angela, Best Bar None, Pubwatch), live street support beacons, anonymous community incident reporting, and SOS alerting. For WalkSafe Pro subscribers, SOS events are routed to NSI Gold-accredited 24/7 Alarm Receiving Centres via a flagship partnership with Mitie, with live audio/video streaming to authorised monitoring professionals and no post-event data retention.

The company runs a two-sided business model. WalkSafe+ is a free consumer app that builds user scale, brand awareness, and community-reported safety data without direct monetisation. WalkSafe Pro is sold via a direct enterprise sales motion (annual or multi-year subscriptions, quote-based pricing) to private and public sector employers, NHS trusts, universities, hospitality operators, stadiums and venues, police forces, councils, and Business Improvement Districts. Additional revenue streams include Safety Map customisation contracts with councils, police forces, and BIDs, and the Safer Communities managed services bundle with Mitie (risk assessments, gap analysis, policy documents, e-training, intelligence reporting). WalkSafe Pro Prevent extends the platform into regulatory compliance, providing anonymous workplace harassment reporting and wellbeing surveys aligned with the UK Workers Protection Act (effective October 2024) and Martyn's Law for venues.

The company's strategic footprint spans 35+ UK towns and cities, with deployments backed by multiple police forces (West Mercia, Cumbria, Kent), local authorities (Bradford, Leeds, Cumberland), and enterprise customers including M&S and Virgin Bet. Distribution combines product-led growth through the App Store and Google Play, a direct enterprise sales team, and the Mitie channel partnership. The company is founder-led by Emma Kay, is privately held with only ~$408K of disclosed funding (Fearless Adventures, 2022), and operates entirely within the United Kingdom.

Name

WalkSafe

Legal name

Chaperhome Ltd.

Website

https://walksafe.io

Company type

Private

Founded year

2020

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

WalkSafe is a UK personal safety technology company offering a free consumer safety app (WalkSafe+) and a subscription enterprise platform (WalkSafe Pro) that provides GPS journey sharing, SOS monitoring via NSI-accredited control rooms, and Workers Protection Act compliance tools for employers, councils, police forces, and venues.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Personal Safety Software

NAICS

Services for the Elderly and Persons with Disabilities (624120)

SIC

Services-Detective, Guard & Armored Car Services (7381)

akta.pro primary industry

Mobile PERS & GPS Medical Alert Services (HSAHAHAA)

akta.pro secondary industry

Personal Emergency Response (PERS) & Medical Alert Monitoring (HSAHAAAL)

Keywords

• Personal safety app
• Journey sharing software
• Safety mapping platform
• Employee wellbeing software
• Lone worker monitoring

Headquarters

HQ city

Chester

HQ country

United Kingdom

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B and B2C

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Supply Chain

Revenue model

1. WalkSafe+ Consumer App (Freemium): WalkSafe+ is free for individual consumers. Revenue is not generated directly from consumer downloads; the free tier drives network effects, community scale, and brand awareness that supports B2B sales of WalkSafe Pro to employers.
2. WalkSafe Pro Enterprise Subscription: WalkSafe Pro is sold to employers (private and public sector) as an annual or multi-year subscription. Employers provide the app as an employee benefit. Pricing is per-organisation or per-seat (exact model not publicly disclosed). Revenue includes access to the admin dashboard, 24/7 monitoring integration (via Mitie or Lodge Services), WPA module, and geo-fenced customisation.
3. Mitie Safer Communities Package: WalkSafe bundles Mitie's professional services — risk assessments, gap analysis, policy documents, e-training, and intelligence reporting — as part of the WalkSafe Pro employer compliance package. Revenue is shared or routed through WalkSafe's commercial agreements with Mitie.
4. Safety Map & Council/BID Partnerships: Local councils, Business Improvement Districts (BIDs), and police forces pay for inclusion on the WalkSafe Safety Map, customisation, and data reporting. Pricing is not publicly disclosed.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion4 records

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels7 records

Core offering

WalkSafe develops personal safety software combining a free consumer app (WalkSafe+) with a paid enterprise solution (WalkSafe Pro). WalkSafe+ delivers real-time GPS journey-sharing, an SOS alert system, an interactive national Safety Map of accredited safe-space venues, and community incident reporting for individual users. WalkSafe Pro extends these capabilities to employers and public sector organisations with 24/7 monitoring through NSI-accredited Alarm Receiving Centres, an admin dashboard, geo-fenced customisation, live audio/video SOS streaming, and a Workers Protection Act compliance module.

Product overview

WalkSafe offers a suite of personal safety products consisting of WalkSafe+ (free consumer app), WalkSafe Pro (enterprise employee safety solution), Safety Mapping (B2B venue mapping platform), and WalkSafe Pro Prevent (WPA compliance module). The consumer WalkSafe+ app combines journey-sharing features with a national Safe Space map for individual users, while WalkSafe Pro extends these capabilities to employers and organizations with 24/7 professional monitoring through a NSI-accredited control room in partnership with Mitie. Safety Mapping provides councils, police forces, and BIDs with tools to display accredited safe spaces, and the Prevent module addresses workplace harassment reporting requirements under the Workers Protection Act 2024.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• WalkSafe+: The UK's leading personal safety app combining journey-sharing features and a national Safe Space map for individual users. Features include real-time location sharing, SOS alerts, safety mapping, and journey tracking with trusted contacts.
• WalkSafe Pro
• Safety Mapping

Products and services

• WalkSafe+ Free consumer personal safety app for individual UK users offering live GPS journey-sharing with trusted contacts, an SOS alert with 5-second cancellation, HomeSafe (time-based arrival alerts without location sharing), Follow Me (duration-based location sharing without destination), and an interactive national Safety Map of accredited safe-space venues (Ask for Angela, Best Bar None, Pubwatch), street support volunteers, taxi ranks, and first aid points. Also enables anonymous community incident reporting shared with local safety partners.
• WalkSafe Pro Employee Safety Subscription-based enterprise employee safety solution for private and public sector employers, offering journey sharing with 24/7 professional monitoring through NSI Gold-accredited Alarm Receiving Centres, SOS alerts with live audio/video streaming to authorised monitoring professionals, an employer admin dashboard showing active and incomplete journeys, bulk CSV team invites, role management (Admin/Manager), and geo-fenced safety content per organisation.
• WalkSafe Pro Prevent Workers Protection Act compliance module providing anonymous and confidential workplace harassment reporting, wellbeing surveys, and organisational temperature checks for HR and management, with an analytics dashboard. Designed to help private and public sector employers comply with the October 2024 Worker Protection Act requirements and avoid significant fines.
• Safety Mapping Platform B2B safety mapping platform for councils, Business Improvement Districts, and police forces that displays accredited safe-space venues, Ask for Angela, PubWatch, Best Bar None, Street Angels, taxi ranks, and police stations across UK towns and cities, with content personalised per city through local council, police, and BID partnerships and shared community safety reporting.

Quantifiable outcome

• 44% of women and 21% of men feel unsafe walking in the dark, driving demand for personal safety tools
• +4 more outcomes

Named customers8 records

Segments9 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

AI capability2 records

Feature11 records

Partnerships

14 partnerships are on record, tiered minor, core and flagship.

• NightWalkiesminorGTM or Marketing Partner · 5 June 2026WalkSafe and NightWalkies partnered to create a dog walking service designed to help women feel safe in the dark, combining WalkSafe's safety technology with NightWalkies' dog walking community.
• West Mercia PolicecoreGTM or Marketing Partner · 1 January 2025West Mercia Police introduced WalkSafe across the whole force area in winter 2025 as part of proactive VAWG reduction efforts. The app launched force-wide and has been downloaded by hundreds of residents and visitors.
• Safer Business NetworkminorGTM or Marketing Partner · 1 January 2025WalkSafe participated in the Women's Night Safety Summit in partnership with Safer Business Network, presenting the Safer Communities ecosystem to an audience of employers, councils, and safety professionals.
• Cumbria PolicecoreGTM or Marketing Partner · 20 December 2024Cumbria Police backed the launch of WalkSafe in Carlisle in December 2024, in partnership with Cumberland Council and the Cumberland Community Safety Partnership. The app received endorsement from the Police and Crime Commissioner.
• Cumberland CouncilcoreGTM or Marketing Partner · 20 December 2024Cumberland Council partnered with WalkSafe to launch the app in Carlisle as part of the Cumberland Community Safety Partnership's efforts to tackle violence against women and girls. The council promotes the app to residents and visitors.
• University of CumbriaminorGTM or Marketing Partner · 20 December 2024University of Cumbria supported the WalkSafe launch in Carlisle, providing endorsement and student onboarding for personal safety on and off campus.
• Armstrong WatsonminorGTM or Marketing Partner · 20 December 2024Armstrong Watson, a corporate partner in the Carlisle WalkSafe launch, provided support as a local business and promoted the initiative to its clients and network.
• Virgin BetcoreGTM or Marketing Partner · 20 August 2024Virgin Bet's first Personal Safety Partnership with WalkSafe. The partnership highlights personal safety at Virgin Bet racing events across the UK, providing users with safety information and journey-home features. Launched officially on 19 August 2024 at the Virgin Bet Ayr Gold Cup Festival (19–21 September 2024). Part of Virgin Bet's 'A Good Bet' brand purpose initiative to create positive change in sports and culture.
• MitieflagshipStrategic or Co-development PartnerWalkSafe and Mitie entered a flagship strategic partnership to combine WalkSafe's award-winning personal safety technology with Mitie's 70,000-person security workforce and NSI Gold-accredited Alarm Receiving Centre. The partnership delivers WalkSafe Pro to Mitie's 3,000+ enterprise customers, provides 24/7 professional SOS monitoring for WalkSafe Pro users, and includes Mitie's Safer Communities package offering risk assessments, gap analysis, policy documents, e-training, and intelligence reporting for employer WPA compliance.
• M&S (Marks & Spencer)coreGTM or Marketing PartnerM&S introduced WalkSafe Pro to enhance colleague safety, providing employees with journey-sharing and SOS features as an employee benefit. Announced June 2026.
• Lodge ServicescoreTechnology or IntegrationLodge Services provides 24-hour monitoring for WalkSafe Pro users at higher education institutions, with live location information available to university security teams or Lodge's monitoring team to assist with incidents on or off campus.
• Kent PolicecoreGTM or Marketing PartnerKent Police is listed as a WalkSafe policing client, using the platform to promote VAWG reduction initiatives and safety reporting across the force area.
• Network RailminorGTM or Marketing PartnerNetwork Rail is shown as a WalkSafe partner logo on the Our Story page, suggesting a partnership to promote safety information or features at railway stations and transport hubs.
• Canary Wharf GroupminorGTM or Marketing PartnerCanary Wharf Group is listed as a WalkSafe partner logo, indicating a partnership to map safe spaces and safety-trained venues across the Canary Wharf estate and promote WalkSafe to the Canary Wharf community.

Scale indicators8 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Direct peers

• StaySafe: Lone-worker and personal safety app offering GPS tracking, SOS alerts, and missed-check-in detection, with a UK-headquartered operation. Directly comparable on app-based journey sharing, SOS, and monitoring integrations for enterprise and public-sector buyers.
• bSafe: Personal safety app with live journey sharing, SOS, and live-streaming video functionality. Comparable feature-for-feature to WalkSafe+ on the consumer side and similar in spirit to WalkSafe Pro's live audio/video SOS streaming capability.
• React Mobile: Lone-worker and employee safety app with SOS alerts, journey tracking, and monitoring-centre integration for hospitality, healthcare, and enterprise. Comparable to WalkSafe Pro's enterprise employee-safety positioning, particularly in hospitality and NHS-adjacent use cases.
• Citizen: Personal safety app providing real-time crime and safety alerts, with location sharing and protect features. Closest US analog in the consumer-facing personal safety category, with a comparable PLG mobile app distribution model.
• Watch Over Me: Personal safety app with journey sharing, SOS, and live audio streaming during emergencies. Comparable feature set to WalkSafe+ on location-based SOS and trusted-contact alerting.
• Noonlight: US-based personal safety platform combining a mobile SOS app with 24/7 professional monitoring and emergency services dispatch. Comparable on the core GPS journey-sharing + SOS-to-monitoring product loop that anchors WalkSafe Pro.
• SureSafe: UK personal safety alarm provider serving elderly and vulnerable users with monitored pendant and app-based solutions. Comparable to WalkSafe's vulnerable-population use cases (NHS lone workers, hospitality late shifts) and operates in the same UK enterprise/care market.
• SoloProtect: UK-focused lone-worker safety solution combining personal safety apps, dedicated devices, and 24/7 professional monitoring through an alarm receiving centre. Closest direct peer to WalkSafe Pro, with a near-identical enterprise value proposition (employee monitoring, SOS escalation, compliance) for UK employers.

Broad incumbents

• Life360: Mass-market family location-sharing and safety platform with location alerts, SOS, and driver safety features. Broader, family-oriented incumbent that overlaps with WalkSafe+ on location sharing and SOS, but with much larger consumer scale and US/global reach.
• Tunstall Healthcare: Established UK healthcare technology and telecare provider offering a broad portfolio of monitored personal alarms, telecare sensors, and connected care platforms. Broad incumbent in WalkSafe's adjacent PERS / monitored safety space, with deeper NHS and social care penetration.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

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Compliance3 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds1 record

Investors1 record

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M&A

Investments

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