Citizen Stock
Public Safety App
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About Citizen Stock
Citizen is a personal safety app that sends alerts about nearby incidents including crime. Citizen's base function is to give users real-time notifications about crime, accidents, and other sorts of dangerous events in their area. All the notifications are taken from real 911 calls. Citizen believes in giving people a way to use their phones to protect a neighbor, to prevent a tragedy, and to count on one another.
Citizen was founded in 2017 by Andrew Fame and is headquartered in New York, New York. Notable investors include Founders Fund, Sequoia Capital, and 8VC.
Investors
8VC
Anduril Industries, Sila Nanotechnologies, Cityblock Health, Blend, Aspiration, project44, Addepar, Illumio, BlueVoyant, Guardant Health
Breyer Capital
Oscar Health, Circle, Shield AI, Stash Financial, Prosper Marketplace, C3 IoT, Grammarly, Etsy, Cleerly, Mark43
Chetrit Ventures
Founders Fund
Lyft, SpaceX, Spotify, Airbnb, Stripe, Anduril Industries, Flexport, Palantir Technologies, Wish, Compass
Goodwater Capital
Getir, Weee!, Greenlight, Stash Financial, EverlyWell, IRL, Zumper, Citizen, Amino Apps, Tophatter
Greycroft
Bird, Flutterwave, MX Technologies, Fetch Rewards, Public.com, Icertis, Kandji, Extreme Reach, WorkFusion, BetterCloud
Haystack
Instacart, Ironclad, People.ai, Astranis, Hired, Mux, Tempo Automation, Wonolo, Citizen, Narvar
Kapor Capital
Via, Omada Health, Twilio, Thrive Market, Optimizely, Good Eggs, Newsela, Citizen, EdCast, Inkling Systems
Lux Capital
Anduril Industries, Relativity Space, Auris Health, Inc., Carbon Health, Anchorage Digital, Flutterwave, Desktop Metal, Benchling, Aurora Solar, Ironclad
MaC Venture Capital
Moving Capital
Bird, Roofstock, Lime, Cart.com, Standard Cognition, Superhuman, Citizen
RRE Ventures
Avant, Bolt Financial, Collective Health, Noom, Bowery Farming, BuzzFeed, Knock, Ripple, VTS, Wag!
Sequoia Capital
Market Kurly, Robinhood, Airbnb, Instacart, Tokopedia, Stripe, DoorDash, Rappi, CoinSwitch Kuber, UiPath
Slow Ventures
Pinterest, ClassPass, Human Interest, Wag!, Casper, Earnest, Minted, Evernote, Hyperscience, Domino Data Lab
Funding History
| November 2015 | $1.1M |
|---|---|
| June 2017 | $2.5M |
| June 2017 | $9.7M |
| August 2018 | $215K |
| August 2018 | $26.0M |
| December 2020 | $250K |
| December 2020 | $24.2M |
| December 2020 | $50.1M |
Management
Chief Executive Officer
Andrew Frame
Head of Product and Design
Darrell Stone
Press
geekwire - Dec, 15 2021
Community safety app Citizen launching in Seattle after attracting 10M users across U.S.aljazeera - Dec, 14 2021
Workers at crime-watch app Citizen vote to unionisenytimes - Dec, 8 2021
On the Citizen App, Even the Happy Videos Can Be Unsettlingdailydot - Aug, 6 2021
Citizen is launching a private 911 for its usersTechCrunch - Aug, 5 2021
Controversial crime app Citizen launches $20/month Protect servicevox - Aug, 3 2021
Citizen, the controversial safety app, is ready to profit from its fear-based platformvice - Jun, 30 2021
Citizen App Says It Will Get Access to Encrypted Police Commsprotocol - Feb, 24 2021
Citizen’s plan to keep people safe (and beat COVID-19) with an appaxios - Jan, 5 2021
Crime alert app Citizen raises new fundingbloomberg - Jun, 14 2019
Crime App Citizen Draws 1 Million New Yorkers and Some ControversyEquityZen does not have an affiliation with, formal relationship with, or endorsement from any companies featured above. This profile is based on publicly available information and is intended to be informative in nature.
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