Tag: AURA
ESX announces 2026 Innovation Award winners
June 4, 2026SSN Staff
DALLAS—The Electronic Security Expo (ESX) has revealed the winners of the 2026 Innovation Awards, recognizing excellence and breakthrough innovation within the electronic security and life safety industry.
These awards honor next-gen products, technologies, and services that advance the industry and provide meaningful growth opportunities for integrators, dealers and monitoring professionals.
An independent panel of industry experts selected this year’s winners based...
AURA expands emergency response platform to U.S.
August 6, 2025Ken Showers
AMSTERDAM — AURA, a technology platform specializing in on-demand security and medical response services, has launched in the United States, an expansion that Timothy Garrett says is driven by public need.
Garrett, president of the company's U.S. division, says cities like Dallas, Seattle, Denver, Houston, Los Angeles and Atlanta have police departments whose resources are stretched thin, placing them among AURA's targeted expansion areas.
He talks with Security...
AURA raises €13.5M Series B round to ease access to emergency response services
July 7, 2025SSN Staff
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa—Life-saving technology platform AURA has raised a €13.5 million Series B funding round co-led by the Cathay AfricInvest Innovation Fund (CAIF) and Partech.
This latest round, which brings AURA’s total funding to €21 million, will fund the company’s expansion into the United States and the development of a global “clearing house” to dispatch emergency response without borders.
AURA was founded in 2017 by Warren Myers,...