AlertID

What AlertID does

AlertID is a Las Vegas-based social mobile application that delivers neighborhood-level real-time information on crime, local activities, events, and breaking news to community-minded consumers. Founded in 2010, the company operates a for-profit, private business with 11–50 employees and is led by CEO and President Becky Wanta, founder Keli Wilson, and CFO Jay Barbeau. The platform's core value proposition is hyper-local situational awareness — aggregating reports and alerts within a defined geographic radius so users can monitor safety and community activity in their immediate vicinity.

The underlying product is a consumer-facing mobile app (app-store presence is referenced but not fully detailed in available sources), and the company's website (alertid.com) serves as the primary digital touchpoint. The underlying technology stack, platform architecture, and proprietary features are not documented in the available source material — the website returned a verification/loading page during data collection, leaving technical specifics unverifiable.

The business model is similarly opaque. No pricing, subscription tiers, advertising inventory, or partnership monetization is disclosed in the input. A single funding round of approximately $4.4 million was raised on 2014-03-10 with undisclosed investors, which has not been supplemented by any visible follow-on capital event in the decade-plus since. Given the absence of disclosed monetization mechanisms, the company is assumed to operate on a free/ad-supported consumer model typical of community safety apps, but this is an inference rather than a documented fact.

Name

AlertID

Website

https://alertid.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2010

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

AlertID is a Las Vegas-based social mobile app that delivers neighborhood-level real-time alerts on crime, local events, activities, and breaking news to community-minded consumers in the United States.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Neighborhood Safety and Community Alert Software

NAICS

Investigation and Security Services (5616)

SIC

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

akta.pro primary industry

Caregiver Monitoring, Check-In & Family Notification Platforms (HSAHAHAE)

Keywords

• Neighborhood safety alerts
• Community crime reporting
• Local news notifications
• Neighborhood social network
• Public safety app

Headquarters

HQ city

Las Vegas

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure, Operations

Core offering

AlertID is a neighborhood-focused social mobile application that provides residents with real-time information and alerts on local crime, suspicious activity, neighborhood events, activities, and breaking news. The platform functions as a community-driven safety and information network enabling neighbors to stay informed about incidents and happenings in their immediate area.

Product overview

No product information available. The source content consists only of a website verification/loading page with no substantive information about AlertID's products, services, or offerings.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Recent moves1 record

Expansion highlights1 record

Direct peers

• Citizen: Citizen is a direct competitor that delivers real-time crime and safety alerts to users in their vicinity via a mobile app, mirroring AlertID's core use case of pushing neighborhood-level safety and incident information to consumers.
• Neighbors by Ring: Neighbors is Ring/Amazon's neighborhood safety app that lets users share crime, suspicious activity, and safety posts within a geo-fenced community — essentially the same product wedge as AlertID, but bundled with Ring's camera hardware ecosystem.
• Nextdoor: Nextdoor is a private social network for verified neighbors that increasingly features local crime, safety, and public-safety posts alongside community discussions, competing head-on with AlertID for hyper-local community engagement.

Broad incumbents

• Life360: Life360 is a publicly listed family safety and location-sharing app that overlaps with AlertID's family/household safety use case and represents a much larger, scaled incumbent in consumer safety software.
• Ring: Ring (owned by Amazon) is the dominant consumer home-security hardware brand with the Neighbors app layered on top; Ring's installed base and Amazon's distribution are competitive threats to any independent neighborhood safety app.
• ADT: ADT is a large incumbent in residential and commercial monitored security, overlapping with AlertID at the intersection of crime prevention and consumer peace-of-mind, though ADT operates in professionally monitored hardware rather than community-software.
• SimpliSafe: SimpliSafe is a leading DIY home security provider with growing software/alerting features; it competes with AlertID indirectly for consumer safety mindshare and household security spend.
• Google Nest: Google Nest offers consumer smart-home security cameras and alerts inside the Google Home ecosystem, representing a scaled platform incumbent that competes for the same residential safety-app use cases as AlertID.

Emerging players

• Citizen (legacy predecessor: Vigilante): Already listed above; included here as a reminder that several region-specific crime-alert startups (e.g., local radio-scanner apps) continue to emerge as niche competitors in the same neighborhood-alert space as AlertID.
• Police Scanner apps (e.g., Scanner Radio): Police-scanner streaming apps deliver live public-safety audio and dispatch feeds to consumers, providing a free substitute for some of AlertID's alerting value proposition and limiting willingness to pay.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat2 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights5 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/alertnest

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles3 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds1 record

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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