hereO

What hereO does

hereO is a privately held consumer hardware company founded in 2011 and headquartered in London, United Kingdom. Per firmographic input, the company develops GPS watches designed for children as young as three years old, positioning it in the family location-tracking and child-safety wearables category. The company operates at a small scale, with a headcount band of 11–50 employees, consistent with an early- to mid-stage consumer hardware startup rather than a mature device vendor.

hereO has raised approximately $4.0M in disclosed funding across two rounds: a $900,000 round in January 2012 and a $3,100,000 round in July 2014. The company was co-founded by Gill Mendelson (CEO), Allon Gladstone (COO), and Daniel Ivesha (President). No subsequent funding rounds, product launches, partnerships, or geographic expansions are documented in the available data after mid-2014.

The business model implied by the product category is hardware sales (GPS watches for children) to parents and families, likely augmented by a connectivity or subscription component for real-time location services. No pricing, unit shipment, revenue, or customer-acquisition data is disclosed in the input. Note: the company's registered domain (hereofamily.com) currently hosts Indonesian-language content branded as 988Slot describing login, registration, and alternative-link services unrelated to children's GPS hardware; this likely reflects domain repurposing or a parked/licensed state rather than active operations of the original hereO product, and should be treated as a data ambiguity rather than a confirmed business pivot.

Name

hereO

Website

https://hereofamily.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2011

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

hereO is a London-based consumer hardware company founded in 2011 that develops GPS watches for children as young as three, selling to parents and families; it has raised approximately $4.0M across two funding rounds (2012 and 2014).

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Children's GPS Wearables

NAICS

Navigational, Measuring, Electromedical, and Control Instruments Manufacturing (33451)

SIC

Watches, Clocks, Clockwork Operated Devices/Parts (3873), Search, Detection, Navagation, Guidance, Aeronautical Sys (3812)

akta.pro primary industry

Kids Wearables (GPS watches & trackers) (CRACAIAI)

akta.pro secondary industries

Personal Safety Wearables (SOS, fall detection) (CRACAIAH), Maternal, Neonatal & Pediatric Remote Monitoring (HLACAPAG), Smartwatches & Connected Wearables (CRAKADAC)

Keywords

• GPS tracking watches
• Children's wearables
• Family location services
• Kid safety devices
• Smartwatch for kids

Headquarters

HQ city

London

HQ country

United Kingdom

HQ region

Europe

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Hardware or Manufacturing

Cost components

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

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

hereO designs and develops GPS-enabled smartwatches for children as young as three years old, enabling parents and guardians to track their children's location. Founded in 2011 and based in London, the company operates in the family-oriented child safety wearables segment with a workforce of 11–50 employees.

Product overview

988Slot is a single unified platform focused on providing easy, fast, and comfortable account access services for users. The platform consists of three interconnected core services: a login system for account access, a registration system for new user onboarding, and alternative links ensuring continuous accessibility when the main address is unavailable. The entire product architecture is designed for cross-device compatibility across computers, laptops, tablets, and smartphones.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• hereO GPS Watch for Kids A child-friendly GPS smartwatch designed for children aged three and up, intended to allow parents to monitor their child's location. Sold under the hereO Family brand.

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature3 records

Recent moves3 records

Expansion highlights2 records

Direct peers

• TickTalk Tech: TickTalk Tech is a direct peer — a privately-held US company that designs and sells 4G LTE GPS smartwatches specifically for children, targeting the same kids-GPS-wearables category with cellular connectivity and parental app features.
• Xplora Technologies: Xplora is a Norwegian-headquartered, publicly-traded peer specializing in children's GPS smartwatches combining location tracking with activity gamification, directly comparable to hereO's product proposition and age-target.

Emerging players

• Jiobit (Life360): Jiobit, acquired by Life360, develops small LTE location trackers for children — overlapping with hereO's parental-location-monitoring use case, though focused on clip-on form factors rather than wrist watches.
• Doki Technologies: Doki (formerly Doki Technologies) developed the dokiWatch, a kids' smartwatch with GPS, calling, and SOS features — an emerging niche player in the same product category.
• AngelSense: AngelSense is a direct competitor in child GPS tracking, with a stronger focus on special-needs and autism populations, but overlapping hereO's core use case of continuous child-location monitoring for parents.
• Filip Technologies: FiLIP is an early entrant in the kids-smartwatch category featuring two-way calling and GPS — historically a direct competitor to hereO before broader carrier and OEM entrants moved into the space.

Broad incumbents

• Garmin Bounce: Garmin's Bounce is a kids-GPS smartwatch from a major consumer-electronics incumbent with deep R&D, distribution, and brand reach — competing in the same wearables category but with vastly broader portfolio scale.
• Verizon GizmoWatch: Verizon's GizmoWatch is a carrier-distributed kids-GPS smartwatch sold through Verizon's retail and subscription channels; a broad incumbent offering overlapping functionality as part of a wider telecom portfolio.
• Apple Watch (Family Setup): Apple Watch's Family Setup feature enables GPS tracking and communication for kids via an Apple Watch tied to a parent's iPhone — a broad-incumbent solution in the family-wearables space that competes for share-of-wallet if not for the under-3 demographic.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat2 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights4 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/hereofamily
• Facebookfacebook.com/hereOfamily
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/kgps

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles3 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds2 records

Investors

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

M&A

Investments

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