What Locked Up does

Locked Up is a privately held escape room operator founded in 2015 and headquartered, per firmographics, in Miami Beach while operating a multi-location retail business across Indiana, including sites in Fort Wayne, Lafayette, Mishawaka, and a newer Granger location on Florence Avenue. The company delivers 60-minute, team-based puzzle experiences across a portfolio of seven themed rooms — Asylum, ADX Florence, ADX Supermax, Alcatraz, Taken, Speakeasy, and Defused — built around physical sets, mechanical lock puzzles, handcuff-based mechanics, and layered clues that require coordination among participants to solve within a fixed time window.

The business operates three distinct revenue streams: per-group ticket sales booked online through a self-serve website location search, corporate team-building events handled through a dedicated contact form, and franchise fees/licensing from entrepreneurs opening new Locked Up locations under the brand. Corporate clients marketed publicly include Amazon, Microsoft, Airbnb, Marriott, Compass Realty, Banyan Air Service, Baglietto, and Emsculpt, and the company has accumulated a 4.8 Google rating across 1,171 reviews, supporting its positioning around immersive, high-engagement team experiences.

Operationally, Locked Up runs a lean team in the 11–50 employee range and is described as founder-led (with co-owner Antonio and manager Dana referenced in customer feedback) and bootstrapped, with no disclosed external funding, parent company, acquisitions, or institutional investors. The technology stack is intentionally low-tech — themed environments, physical props, and on-site game masters — with no software platform, app, or AI capabilities referenced, positioning the company as a service-intensive experiential entertainment operator whose growth depends on location density, franchise replication, and the continued refresh of themed content.

Name

Locked Up

Legal name

Locked Up

Website

https://lockeduplive.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2015

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Locked Up is a privately held, multi-location escape room operator in Indiana offering seven themed 60-minute puzzle experiences to consumer groups and corporate clients, supplemented by a franchise program for geographic expansion.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Escape Room Entertainment

NAICS

Amusement Parks and Arcades (7131)

SIC

Services-Amusement & Recreation Services (7900)

akta.pro primary industry

Family Entertainment Centers & Indoor Amusement (Arcades, Trampoline Parks, Indoor Play) (THAAAAAD)

akta.pro secondary industry

Escape Room Games & Mystery Puzzle Boxes Retail (CRALALAM)

Keywords

• Escape room experiences
• Team building events
• Themed entertainment venues
• Puzzle adventure games
• Franchise entertainment

Headquarters

HQ city

Miami Beach

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices4 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B and B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Operations, Personnel, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Escape Room Tickets: Customers purchase tickets for 60-minute escape room experiences. Booking is done online through the company's location search system. Pricing appears to be per group/room booking.
2. Corporate Events: Dedicated corporate team building events booked through a contact form, offering customized experiences for businesses to improve employee collaboration and productivity.
3. Franchise Revenue: The company offers franchise opportunities, allowing others to open Locked Up escape room locations under the brand.

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels3 records

Core offering

Locked Up operates physical escape room venues across Indiana that deliver themed 60-minute puzzle and adventure experiences for groups of consumers, along with customized corporate team-building event packages. The company also offers a franchise program that allows entrepreneurs to open additional Locked Up-branded escape room locations.

Product overview

Locked Up is an escape room experience company operating across multiple Indiana locations (Fort Wayne, Lafayette, Mishawaka). The company offers a portfolio of themed escape room products including Asylum, ADX Florence, ADX Supermax, Alcatraz, Speakeasy, Taken, and Defused Room. Each room features unique puzzle mechanics, immersive theming, and time-limited (60-minute) challenges. The core experience involves teams solving puzzles and riddles to escape a locked room. Additionally, Locked Up provides corporate team-building event services that leverage escape room challenges to develop workplace skills including communication, problem-solving, and collaboration. The company operates on a franchise model.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Asylum Asylum is a themed escape room experience featuring challenging puzzles and interactive gameplay with handcuff mechanics, described as immersive and suitable for smaller groups (e.g., groups of 2+). The room is part of Locked Up's core themed portfolio sold per group booking across Indiana locations.
• ADX Florence ADX Florence is a prison-themed escape room based on the ADX Florence supermax facility, featuring high-security themed puzzles and detailed immersive design. It is sold as a 60-minute group booking experience.
• ADX Supermax ADX Supermax is a supermax prison-themed escape room experience with detailed authentic room design, noted as suitable for groups of approximately 6 participants and sold as a 60-minute group booking.
• Alcatraz Alcatraz is a classic prison-escape-themed room and one of Locked Up's original themed offerings, featuring challenging puzzles for groups of 4–12 participants sold as a 60-minute group booking.
• Speakeasy Speakeasy is a Prohibition-era themed escape room featuring hidden compartments and stealth-style puzzle solving, sold as a 60-minute group booking experience.
• Taken Taken is a high-stakes themed escape room experience included in Locked Up's corporate team-building offerings, sold as a 60-minute group booking.
• Defused Room Defused Room is an escape room with bomb-defusal-themed puzzles and high-intensity challenges for teams, sold as a 60-minute group booking experience.
• Corporate Team Building Events Customized team-building experiences designed for corporate groups, focusing on improving communication, problem-solving, productivity, and employee motivation through collaborative escape room challenges. Booked through a dedicated corporate contact form rather than self-serve ticketing.
• Locked Up Franchise Program Franchise opportunities allowing entrepreneurs and business owners to open and operate Locked Up-branded escape room locations under the company's brand, themes, and operating model. Inquiries are submitted through a dedicated Franchise Request form on the website.

Named customers8 records

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature2 records

Scale indicators4 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Direct peers

• Escape the Room: One of the earliest U.S. escape room chains with themed puzzles and corporate event offerings; comparable on format, customer mix, and brand maturity.
• Red Door Escape Room: Multi-location escape room chain offering themed rooms and team-building packages; comparable on experiential format, multi-unit operations, and corporate client targeting.
• 60out Escape Rooms: Escape room chain operating in California with themed rooms and team-building events; closely comparable product offering and dual consumer/corporate go-to-market.
• Breakout Games: Multi-location escape room operator with themed rooms and corporate team-building packages; competes for the same consumer and enterprise customers as Locked Up with a comparable experience format.
• The Escape Game: Largest U.S. escape room chain with multiple locations and similar 60-minute themed experiences; directly comparable on product format, customer segments (consumer + corporate team building), and franchise/scale ambitions.
• Mission Escape Games: Escape room operator with themed experiences and corporate team-building focus; directly comparable on experience design, pricing model, and target customer segments.
• EscapeWorks: Escape room operator with multiple themed rooms and corporate team-building services; directly comparable on experience design and target segments.

Emerging players

• Urban Axes: Experiential entertainment operator focused on axe-throwing venues with strong corporate team-building positioning; comparable as an alternative format competing for the same corporate experiential-entertainment dollars as Locked Up.

Regional players

• ClueQuest: UK-based escape room operator with themed immersive experiences and corporate offerings; comparable on product format and B2B team-building use cases, though operating in a different geography.
• Daft Concept Entertainment: UK-based escape room chain with multi-location themed operations and corporate event focus; comparable on experience format and customer mix but operates in a different geography.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/lockeduplive
• Facebookfacebook.com/LockedUpFortWayne
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/locked-up-fort-wayne-escape-room-experience

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Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles2 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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