Emeryville-based company recognized for revolutionizing mobile personal safety

“It’s an honor to be recognized by AlwaysOn as one of the top tech innovators in our field,” said Tasso Roumeliotis, founder and CEO of Location Labs. “We’re proud that our mobile personal safety technologies provide peace of mind to families, specifically the parents of millions of children. Our hope is that these powerful services offer parents the tools they need to make informed decisions to protect themselves and their loved ones.”

Emeryville, Calif., July 13, 2011 – Location Labs, the leading provider of mobile personal safety solutions, today announced that it has been chosen by AlwaysOn as one of the AlwaysOn Global 250 winners. Inclusion in the AlwaysOn Global 250 signifies leadership amongst its peers and game-changing approaches and technologies that are likely to disrupt existing markets and entrenched players in the Global Silicon Valley. Location Labs was specially selected by the AlwaysOn editorial team and industry experts spanning the globe based on a set of five criteria: innovation, market potential, commercialization, stakeholder value, and media buzz.

Location Labs and the AlwaysOn Global 250 companies will be honored at AlwaysOn’s ninth annual Innovation Summit at Santa Clara University on July 28th, 2011, at the Louis B. Mayer Theatre at Santa Clara University in Santa Clara, Calif.

This two-day executive gathering that highlights the significant economic, political and commercial trends affecting the global technology industries. Innovation Summit’s goal is to identify the most promising entrepreneurial opportunities and investments in the global tech industry.

“This year’s AlwaysOn Global 250 are companies driven by the biggest mega-trends, including the accelerating growth of mobile users, cloud computing, and SaaS offerings, globalization, and the socialization of commerce and basically everything online,” says Tony Perkins, founder and editor of AlwaysOn. “This year’s winners clearly represent some of the highest-growth opportunities we’ve seen in the private company marketplace in the history of the global Silicon Valley.”

The AlwaysOn Global 250 winners were selected from among thousands of domestic and international technology companies nominated by investors, bankers, journalists, and industry insiders. The AlwaysOn editorial team conducted a rigorous three-month selection process to finalize the 2011 list.

Committed to developing the most powerful mobile personal safety products, Location Labs’ technology fulfills parents' primal need to protect their loved ones and powers nearly a dozen family safety products for tier one carriers, including AT&T, Sprint and T-Mobile.

“It’s an honor to be recognized by AlwaysOn as one of the top tech innovators in our field,” said Tasso Roumeliotis, founder and CEO of Location Labs. “We’re proud that our mobile personal safety technologies provide peace of mind to families, specifically the parents of millions of children. Our hope is that these powerful services offer parents the tools they need to make informed decisions to protect themselves and their loved ones.”

A full list of all the AlwaysOn Global 250 winners can be found on the AlwaysOn website at:
http://www.aonetwork.com/AOStory/Announcing-2011-AlwaysOn-Global-250

About Location Labs

Location Labs is the leader in mobile personal safety, offering consumer products that enhance the personal safety of millions of users. With the most powerful family location services and the only carrier-grade no-texting-while driving solutions, Location Labs’ products fulfill the primal need of parents to protect their loved ones.

The company operates the world's most successful mobile location-based personal safety services, powering nearly a dozen family safety products for Tier 1 carriers, including AT&T, Sprint, and T-Mobile. Recent accolades include: Semifinalist in Ernst & Young’s Entrepreneur of the Year® Award 2011 Northern California, 2010 Inc. 500 list of America's Fastest Growing Private Companies and San Francisco Business Journal's “Fastest Growing Privately Held Companies.”

The company has raised $26MM in venture financing from Draper Fisher Jurvetson, BlueRun Ventures (formerly Nokia Venture Partners), QUALCOMM Ventures, Intel Capital, and Mitsui Ventures.

More information: http://www.LocationLabs.com

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