Bond is working to build the future of personal security

Problem: Billions of people globally routinely find themselves in situations that make them feel uncomfortable or unsafe (walking alone at night, facing a stranger, or worrying about the kids). In 99.99% of these situations it is too early to dial 911, but you still want someone by your side. If the situation escalates, you are unlikely to complete a 911 call. In other words: Too Early, until it is Too Late to Dial 911.

Solution: Bond invested over $103 million in order to establish the what we believe is the world’s first and only AI-Powered Preventative Personal Security platform. For the first time it is possible for anyone – at their choosing -to be looked after 24/7, well before an emergency and well before it is legitimate to activate 911. You are Never Alone Again. Bond is your Personal Security Companion. Bond AI and Agents are able to detect threats and address them in seconds: calming, directing, deterring and orchestrating first responders.

Bond’s technology platform is multifaceted and includes multiple technologies that fall into 3 pillars: (1) the Bond app on the phones of Bond end-users providing 14 distinctive security services from AI monitoring to bodyguard on demand, (2) global fully automated command centers with Bond 24/7 trained Personal Security Agents who respond in seconds and can guide members, deter perpetrators and orchestrate first responders. Lastly, (3) much of the Bond technology runs in the Cloud. The technology platform makes it possible to effectively, reliably and affordably protect millions of people.

The Bond platform is proven having delivered over 1.25 million security service requests including emergencies and life-saving situations. Bond’s mission and vision is to have everyone who has a smartphone as a Bond member. Bond is well on its way. This is how great technological and operational sophistication and complexity delivers simplicity and safety to end-users. Bond is now preparing to go public in order to accelerate the attainment of its mission.

1. In order to learn more about the Bond technology platform, scroll down to the technology chapter.

Why invest in Bond now

Led by a successful serial tech entrepreneur who sold his prior companies for $900M dollars, Bond solved a problem that troubles billions of people globally. They feel unsafe. Bond raised $103M to date and has created an innovative AI-powered technology platform that for the first time addresses the problem effectively and affordably. The largest companies in the world are customers of Bond, adopting it on behalf of their employees to the tune of nearly $10M in 2024. Bond is facing no direct competition, and it will be very difficult to emulate its technology platform. Our valuation has doubled each of the last two years, and now Bond is preparing to go public in order to extend its leadership of this huge market opportunity.

When we meet our customers, they thank us and want to know how they can help and how they can participate. In the spirit of democratizing personal security, we want to allow our members the opportunity to be investors and partners in the mission. As such, we have chosen to make a limited portion of our current fundraising round available via crowdfunding, but we expect most of the round will be taken by our existing investors.

The problem Bond addresses: Dialing 911 is reactive, not preventative

Responding to emergencies is not good enough. Bond’s technology can prevent harm and save lives with preventative security.

Everyone has experienced a time when they or someone they love were in a situation that made them feel unsafe. One of the most common examples of this is walking alone at night.

There is a personal security gap.

Imagine this scenario.

Rachel has a 10-minute walk to the subway from her office. Tonight, she has stayed at the office later than usual and as she starts her walk, the streets are empty around her. As she turns the corner, she notices someone following a few steps behind her.

She starts walking faster and the person matches her speed. She thinks about calling a friend, but dismisses the idea. She doesn’t want to worry them. She decides to keep walking and just make it to the subway quickly.

It isn’t an emergency yet, but it could turn into one. If the person following Rachel has criminal intentions, if she waits for a physical confrontation, it is likely to be too late to call 911.

Everyone has a story like this. Situations that cause fear but don’t justify a 911 call. However, a painful minority of those situations will result in traumatic or terminal outcomes.

Preventative personal security eliminates this risk, but until now it has been expensive - only available to the wealthy, politicians, and VIPs. Bond is revolutionizing the $438 billion dollar personal security market by making a product accessible to the millions of people who could not previously afford it.

The Solution: Bond’s technology makes preventative security available to everyone

Using its proprietary technology, Bond empowers members to be proactive about their security without bothering friends, worrying family, or overwhelming emergency services.

In the scenario above, Bond uses AI to detect threats and then activate Bond Personal Security Agents to guide, deter threats, and orchestrate first responders.

Hear from a former US Secret Service Agent about the importance and value of Bond’s services:

There are many other cases where preventative security can offer reassurance and prevent harm:

1. When accepting a ride from a stranger in a cab or rideshare
2. For workers whose jobs require them to be alone in unfamiliar places - such as real estate agents, home healthcare professionals, and home maintenance services providers
3. When a child fails to check in on time with their parents
4. And many more

Situations like these aren’t emergencies that justify 911 calls, but they still make us uncomfortable because we never know if they will escalate into something worse. Bond helps people control their risks in these nerve-wracking situations and take back their peace of mind.

Bond is a personal security service built into your mobile phone.

Once activated, Bond looks after you electronically (via its integrated AI platform) or with the support of its 24/7 live Personal Security Agents, who are in Bond Command Centers and respond in seconds. Bond is accessible via an app on your phone, and offers 14 distinct services that allow Bond members to choose when and how Bond will keep them secure while preserving their privacy 100%.

We believe that Bond is the first and only company offering a 24/7 preventative personal security and peace of mind service that's effective, affordable and preserves privacy. Bond is:

1. A new category of preventative pre-emergency personal security: Unlike traditional apps, Bond looks after its members preventatively before an emergency and can detect a threat and intervene before it’s too late, enhancing the likelihood of positive outcomes.
2. An AI powered technology platform: Enables massive scalability, reliability and affordability.
3. Trained Bond security agents respond in seconds: Connect with real, trained security agents 24/7 via chat, phone, or video. They'll de-escalate situations, offer guidance, and coordinate help if needed.
4. More than just reactive: Bond offers proactive services to look after you like video monitoring, monitoring your route, scheduling security checks for you and your loved ones, putting security agents on standby, and emergency response coordination, giving you multiple layers of security and peace of mind in 28 countries and growing.

Relevant for everyone: Whether you're an individual, a family, a company, a city, or an organization, Bond protects the ones you care about.

The biggest companies in the world are offering Bond to their employees.

Bond’s customers include some of the largest and most recognizable brands in the world, including many Fortune 500 companies. These companies are using Bond to set a new standard of care for employees.

In addition to the above, Bond is expanding its offerings in the business-to-business-to-consumer space; we are working with the world’s second largest credit card network, Mastercard, to offer our services to their cardholders with the target of eventually reaching all 200 million, and we have numerous other partnerships with large consumer brands in development.

Last but not least, Bond is in dialogue with multiple prominent cities to offer our services directly to their millions of residents; partnerships of that nature could be a path for us to reach tens of millions of customers if they are successful.

For an example of the kind of value that Bond brings to its enterprise customers, check out this case study the Security Executive Council wrote on Ralph Lauren’s Bond deployment: https://securityexecutivecouncil.com/download/1394

Growth prospects

The Bond opportunity and mission remains the same as it has since our founding in 2017 - to make the Bond service as ubiquitous as insurance by addressing a problem that billions of people globally have. By our analysis that could eventually be a $100 billion market in which there are currently no direct competitors, and into which we are already rapidly growing.

We have a product that is proven both from a security perspective, with over 1,250,000 security requests handled including over 10,000 emergencies and life saving cases, and from a commercial perspective, with high win rates on deals and great retention of customers.

This is the time for us to double down on sales and marketing.

To that end, we are preparing to go public later this year.

This will allow us to accelerate our growth even further by investing more in marketing and lead generation, hiring more sales professionals, and continuing to expand our offering into additional countries around the world.

As with all investments, the above represents our goals and projections but results are not guaranteed. For instance, going public is dependent on a variety of market conditions that are beyond our control. Investors should take into consideration that plans to go public could be postponed indefinitely, in which case the company would seek alternate means of funding, such as additional rounds from our existing investors.

The Bond Technology Platform

Great technology companies usually fit into one of two groups:

1. Companies with an exciting technology product: the iPhone, a Tesla car, an Nvidia GPU chip
2. Companies with a powerful technology platform that aren’t obvious to the public, but that are key in enabling an innovative service - think about Uber, Netflix, Facebook, E-Bay, and Amazon. The importance and value of the technology of these companies might not be as immediately clear, but over time it is crucial in them establishing and maintaining market dominance.

Bond clearly falls into the 2nd category above, although we can’t promise market dominance just yet. Bond is a platform company that enables what we believe is a first-of-its-kind, effective and affordable set of 14 services that Bond puts at the fingertips of its users. Bond invested over 250 engineering years and $100 million in order to design, build, integrate and test its platform and services. Let’s understand what the platform delivers, what subsystems it includes, and why it is such an upgrade from the panic buttons and location trackers that have been the best options available for so long.

Bond pioneered a remarkably versatile AI-powered technology platform that combines:

1. Threat and anomaly detection integrating multiple signals and patterns that are monitored in real time
2. Location accuracy
3. Automation of multifaceted mission-critical response protocols well beyond what human response time and precision allow
4. Rapid activation, guidance, and quality controls of human response by either Bond Personal Security Agents in Bond’s fully automated Command Centers, as well as first responders and other forces in the vicinity of the event
5. Integrated versatile communication modalities and redundancies among all parties involved in real time: member, Bond, first responders, and beyond
6. Bond’s unprecedented ability to respond to end-users on average within 4 seconds is a combination of technological and operational innovation. Bond accomplishes this key competence while maintaining a low cost and low count of full-time employee headcount.
7. This includes part-time Bond Personal Security Agents who are fully trained by Bond, who are on various levels of alert, and who are able to fill anticipated or emerging coverage needs or gaps. This is an economical way to deliver high quality in seconds, without suffering high fixed costs and the low utilization rates that old fashioned call centers suffer from. Clearly, data analytics and AI are at the heart of this innovation. However, this also involves innovative employment schemes.
8. Highly-innovative data privacy and data security technologies and processes

The technology resides on the phones of end users, in the fully-automated Bond Command Centers around the world and in the cloud.

For example, if the Track Me On The Go service is activated, the Bond member (or their parent) first enters their destination and mode of transit (walking, driving, ride-sharing, train, etc.), and the Bond AI system will then monitor their progress and detect anomalies.

Should an anomaly be detected (route, speed, or other indicators), Bond will check with the member that they're okay, potentially calm them down, guide them, deescalate a situation and even deter unwanted company. Should the situation escalate to an emergency, Bond will orchestrate help from the appropriate first responders and other available local resources.

In the US and in 28 countries, Bond’s proprietary technology network enables us to contact the closest first responders to the Bond member, reducing the time it takes to receive service. This is significant, because U.S. regulators estimate as many as 10,000 lives could be saved each year if the 911 emergency dispatching system were able to get to callers one minute faster. Better technology would be especially helpful, regulators say, when a caller can’t speak or identify his or her location [WSJ]. Bond Command Centers address this need further by having access to translators in approximately 300 languages.

Our ability to leverage such precise connectivity to first responders in the US and globally is part of what sets our platform apart.

Bond’s Security Expert Network

Another of Bond's key differentiators is the network of security experts globally who advise us: former heads of US Secret Service, FBI, major metropolitan police chiefs around the world, heads of military special operations units, etc. They continue to help us identify the trends and missing links within personal security and define our solution to meet it.

Other Services

While Bond’s AI Powered Preventative Personal Security platform is the core Bond offering, Bond’s also offers these three synergistic services:

1. Air Guardian First Responder Drone Service: Bond developed an innovative service that is intended to expedite a response. The specialty drone ( with megaphone, spot light, night/day camera, parachute and redundant telecommunications capabilities) is operated by Bond personnel and can be activated to reach a location where an end-user requires assistance. Bond can activate the drone on behalf of its members (to look after them, to deter unwanted company and to help point arriving first responders to the exact location of the individual in need). Another mode of operation is to operate the drone on behalf of local first responders.

2. Executive Protection & Guarding: Bond is addressing a quality gap in the market whereby guarding services lack adequate quality controls. Bond balances decorum and diligence by utilizing its technologies and command centers in order to monitor guards 24/7. Bond handles Executive Protection (bodyguards) and guard requirements of some of the most affluent families in the US as well as corporations.

3. Bond Consulting & Special Services are offered to corporations and families/individuals. Bond leverages its in-house knowhow and network of best-in-breed solution partners in order to orchestrate the assessment, design, deployment and day-to-day management of various security solutions and projects: threat detection, alarm systems, investigations, Executive Protection abroad and in the USA, Guarding, and more.

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Disclaimer: This announcement includes forward looking statements, including statements regarding our intention to go public. These statements are subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those expressed or implied. There’s no assurance that a public offering will be completed.