The Company

Life360 was founded in 2007 to make it easier for families to manage and solve the things that keep them up at night.

Early History

The initial Life360 concept was conceived in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina—so many families were thrown into a state of chaos because as a whole everyone was completely unprepared. People stayed uninformed, didn’t have the proper supplies, and had no way of knowing where there loved ones were and whether or not they were safe. The Life360 founding team realized that technology could have been used to make people both better able to prepare for and overcome disasters, and thus the company was born.

So Many Good Ideas...

As Life360 began developing its disaster preparedness and emergency messaging system, the company kept hearing from people who had other suggestions about how the technology could be used to make their lives more secure and less stressful. With so many cool ideas on the table, it was tough to say "no" to adding new features, but the product soon became a lumbering behemoth. The company decided it needed a way to get the best of both worlds.


Round 2

Around the time Life360 realized it needed to find a better way of managing all its different features, the company won Google’s Android Developer Challenge for building one of the top 10 mobile apps in the world for the Android platform. With money from Google and big boost in confidence, the team decided to start over from scratch and approach the problem from a completely new angle: build a platform that hosts an unlimited number of widgets, and let users pick and choose which tools they think best solve their needs. Now instead of having to deal with a massively long signup process or a complex interface, families can enter their information once and build their own custom “what-if” solution with just a few clicks.

The Life360 Platform

After almost a year of development, the Life360 beta platform is nearing completion and will be launched to the public within the next few months. Get ready!