RapidSOS has secured a $100 million financing round led by the Apax Digital Funds, marking one of the largest fundraises to date for an emergency response AI company. With this latest capital infusion, the company’s total funding now exceeds $450 million, placing the New York-based public safety technology provider among the most well-capitalized innovators in the sector.
The announcement follows a significant operational milestone for RapidSOS, which recently surpassed one billion emergencies supported. The company’s platform, built around RapidSOS HARMONY, is designed to integrate mission-critical data, automatically detect incidents, and enhance communication between devices, emergency centers, and first responders. The system runs on what RapidSOS describes as the world’s largest safety network, consisting of more than 600 million devices, applications, sensors, and cameras, over 200 global enterprises, including half of the United States Fortune 10, more than 22,000 public safety and defense agencies, and one million first responder users across a dozen countries.
The company said the newly raised capital will accelerate work to expand its AI capabilities, scale its global safety network, deepen interoperability between 911 centers and field response systems, and advance its tools for analyzing, triaging, and resolving emergencies more efficiently. RapidSOS also plans to continue its international expansion by partnering with governments and major technology providers to modernize emergency infrastructure and enhance collaborative response models.
RapidSOS’s technology has already demonstrated a lifesaving impact. In one recent incident in rural Michigan, 911 telecommunicators dispatched first responders within 13 seconds of receiving crash detection alerts transmitted through the platform. Emergency personnel arrived in time to remove a survivor from a vehicle just seconds before it became engulfed in flames.
Apax Digital said its investment reflects the firm’s view that RapidSOS has become foundational infrastructure for public safety agencies and emergency management organizations worldwide. The firm noted that the company’s AI-driven data layer plays a critical role in supporting safety operations for hundreds of millions of people.
RapidSOS emphasized that it will continue working with the public safety community to equip first responders with faster, more reliable, and more intelligent emergency support tools. The company stated that its expanded research and development efforts will focus on preventing one million emergencies by 2030.
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“We’ve had the extraordinary privilege of learning from the heroic work of first responders across over one billion emergencies. This funding further accelerates our work to support first responders. We’re accelerating R&D efforts into our AI with the aim to prevent one million emergencies by 2030.”
Michael Martin, Founder and CEO, RapidSOS
“RapidSOS’s data infrastructure underpins much of modern safety, security, and disaster response. As we diligenced the platform, it became clear that this foundational data layer, operationalized through the company’s AI, plays a critical role in powering emergency management in agencies across a dozen countries, covering nearly 700 million people. We are excited to support the team as they continue delivering and advancing essential capabilities for public safety stakeholders worldwide.”
Patrick Kane, Partner, Apax Digital Funds
