| Date | Title | Description |
| 26.06.2023 | ROAR launches 911-enabled Button to Panic Button solution to Increase Safety for Lone Workers | Protecting your business and employees
The ROAR Panic Button Solution now provides 911-emergency functionality in order to protect lone workers in an emergency situation.
The ROAR static Panic Button Solution now provides 911-emergency func... |
| 07.03.2022 | ROAR for Good Expands into Healthcare Market, Launches AlwaysOn at BeWell Center | PHILADELPHIA (PRWEB) March 07, 2022
ROAR for Good, a leading technology provider for employee safety, has expanded into the healthcare industry, partnering with the Behavioral Wellness Center (BeWell) in Philadelphia on a duress system for ... |
| 28.02.2022 | Wireless Panic Button Startup Raises $1.8M in Oversubscribed Round | The Philadelphia startup initially sought to raise $1.5 million, but investors surpassed the company’s goal for growth capital, ROAR for Good Founder Yasmine Mustafa said. She declined to disclose the identities of the several private angel... |
| 24.02.2022 | Broad Street Angels close 2021 with over $1.68 million in investments | BROAD STREET ANGELS CLOSES 2021 WITH OVER $1.68 million in investments |
| 29.09.2021 | ROAR for Good Just Got its Tech Patented. Here’s What That Means for the Safety Device Company | CEO and cofounder Yasmine Mustafa had pivoted the company from B2B to hospitality right as COVID-19 made it one of the hardest-hit industries of 2020. But she kept her eyes on legislation requiring hotels to provide their staff with persona... |
| 06.05.2021 | Here’s How Many B Corps are Based in Philly Right Now | If you’re not as plugged into the social entrepreneurship or impact investing movements, it can be easy to lose sight of the potentially positive impact for-profit companies can make on the communities where they’re based.
B Corps are a sub... |
| 24.03.2021 | Viewpoint: Refugee Women Like Me Will Help Lead America Out of the Recession | I was 8 years old, huddled on the floor with my parents and five siblings in a bomb shelter in Kuwait. The ground was shaking from the nearby explosions. People around me were crying or praying. I’d never seen my parents look so afraid. Sud... |
| 18.03.2021 | ROAR for Good Closed a Round of Funding as it Eyes Expansion Throughout the US | The company just closed a round of growth capital and is planning to add to its team this year, it announced Thursday. The round — Mustafa told Technical.ly she’ll be keeping the size private for now — closes as many states face impending d... |
| 11.02.2021 | ROAR for Good is Launching Its Wearable Safety Tech in 3 Local Hotels | The company had switched its focus from B2C to B2B in 2019, and it was hospitality that ultimately checked the boxes — financially and from a social impact stance — by offering housekeepers a tool to help them feel protected against sexual ... |
| 31.10.2020 | Catalysts For Change: 18 Women Who Used Technology To Amplify Movements | Social networking service concept. Streaming video.getty |
| 04.05.2020 | How ROAR for Good’s CEO is Thinking about Pivoting its Safety Device During the Pandemic | CEO Yasmine Mustafa first founded the company with the Athena, a personal safety device for women who wanted a way to alert emergency contacts when they feel unsafe. At the end of 2019, the company discontinued the heralded product amid a c... |
| 10.01.2020 | This Philadelphia Business has Created a Wearable Panic Button to Protect Hotel Workers from Sexual Assault |
One Philadelphia business — ROAR for Good — is part of that movement. Its cofounder, Yasmine Mustafa, knows firsthand the vulnerabilities faced by workers in the hospitality industry. She spent 14 years in low-end jobs, many as an undocume... |
| 07.11.2019 | ROAR plan to protect housekeepers with panic buttons |
It’s part of the company’s plan to pivot to B2B services, using the Athena’s technology in the hospitality space for a new product.
Though the company considered fields like social work, education and hospitals’ psychiatric wards, it was t... |
| 02.10.2019 | She Came up With a Device to Keep Hotel Workers Safer. Warby Parker’s Co-Founder Weighs In on How to Take the Startup to the Next Level | Neil Blumenthal co-founded Warby Parker in 2010 with a dual purpose: bring down the cost of prescription eyewear for consumers, and outfit glasses to the billion people worldwide who lack access to them. The company, with a valuation of $1.... |
| 26.04.2019 | Inside ROAR for Good’s Pivot to B2B | Its sleek-looking safety device, gleaming in silver or rose gold, and marketed as a protection tool against sexual harassment, began shipping to users in 2017, after a wildly over-subscribed crowdfunding campaign on Indiegogo. Cofounder and... |
| 25.04.2019 | Inside ROAR for Good’s pivot to B2B | In a way, Philly’s ROAR for Good — once the makers of a safety wearable device for the consumer market called Athena — was a victim of its own success.
Its sleek-looking safety device, gleaming in silver or rose gold, and marketed as a prot... |
| 11.02.2019 | Yasmine Mustafa: ‘No one should be afraid while trying to earn a wage’ | With #HandsOffPantsOn, activists are trying to put an end to sexual violence, harassment and overall unsafe working conditions for hotel industry workers. In a recently published TEDxPhiladelphiaWomen talk from December, ROAR for Good found... |
| 24.03.2018 | Ben Franklin Will Oversee StartUp PHL’s Second Seed Fund, with $3.5M to Start | In the summer of 2016, news broke that First Round Capital, which managed the first investment fund from the city’s startup-boosting investment vehicle, would close the fund and not submit an application to oversee StartUp PHL Fund II.
“It’... |
| 11.01.2018 | 5 Philly Startups Spotted at CES 2018 |
Naturally, chaos ensued at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas: some attendees were evacuated, some people got their phones trapped in fancy charging stations and others fumbled in the dark unable to get their usual doses of peppy d... |
| 10.11.2017 | ROAR for Good is giving 250 Athena safety devices to this nonprofit | ROAR for Good is hitting the three-year mark this month and, to celebrate, it’s giving a bulk-sized order of its flagship Athena product — a wearable safety device — to Philly-based nonprofit Women Against Abuse.
The company, which started ... |
| 05.11.2017 | For its third birthday, ROAR for Good is donating 250 Athenas to Women Against Abuse |
Now, it’s celebrating that milestone by completing another part of its mission: donating the device to likeminded organizations — in this case, 250 Athenas to domestic violence service provider Women Against Abuse.
It’s a good fit for ROAR... |
| 25.09.2017 | Local Leaders, National Topics: Women’s Health Innovation | In 2015, Dan Hilferty, CEO of Independence Blue Cross (IBX), told Philadelphia Magazine that Philly could be the, “Silicon Valley of healthcare innovation.” Yet the concept hinged on a few variables. According to Hilferty, Philadelphia need... |
| 15.08.2017 | Five Female Founders you Should Know |
WHO: Morgan Berman
WHAT: MilkCrate
If you are involved in the Philly tech community and don’t know this name, we would be suprised. Morgan has taken the scene by storm since 2013 when she launched MilkCrate Philly (now, MilkCrate), her com... |
| 23.05.2017 | Here’s Who Took Home Enterprise Awards | During the Enterprise Awards, that was the main prompt from Philadelphia Alliance for Capital and Technologies (PACT) CEO Dean Miller, who emceed the 24th edition of the ceremony last night at the Pennsylvania Convention Center before a cro... |
| 23.11.2016 | BBC’s ‘100 Women 2016’ List Features ROAR for Good’s Yasmine Mustafa |
“I was speechless when I first got the news in August and I don’t think the gravity of it has really hit me,” said Mustafa in an email to Technical.ly. “Seeing the other honorees today makes me feel incredibly fortunate to be recognized. I... |
| 10.11.2016 | Ben Franklin Approved 3.1M in 12 Early Stage Companies | |
| 19.10.2016 | Philly Geek Award Winners |
Among the winners: Azavea’s Kathryn Killebrew, who took home the coveted Geek of the Year award, as well as ROAR For Good’s Yasmine Mustafa, who nabbed the Technologist of the Year award for 2016.
Awards were also handed out for topics inc... |
| 03.10.2016 | ROAR for Good, Dreamit, BioBots, RevZilla featured on CNBC |
“Startups are thriving in the City of Brotherly Love.”
First up in the dispatch from reporter Kate Rogers was ROAR for Good CEO Yasmine Mustafa, who spoke about the company’s flagship Athena product. Mustafa herself showcased how the weara... |
| 30.09.2016 | ROAR for Good, Dreamit, BioBots, RevZilla featured on CNBC | “Startups are thriving in the City of Brotherly Love.”
The final segment in CNBC’s Nightly Business Report kicked off with this kinda cheesy line, as the network dedicated six minutes to recapping the hustlin’, bustlin’ Philly tech scene.
F... |
| 13.09.2016 | Can safety wearables really stop crimes against women? | Personal safety wearables development and adoption is on the rise with a range of wearable safety devices on the market like Nimb, Revolar and Siren.
Their common thread is that they aim to enable the user to get help in situations where th... |
| 11.08.2016 | Help ROAR for Good develop its personal safety app |
Together with Philly-based designer Kyle Martin and developer Kostas Nasis, the company will be releasing its Personal Safety app this month.
The mobile app will let users check in with their loved ones if they feel anxious about their sur... |
| 27.05.2016 | Wells Fargo Supports AWE Ventures—Powered by Ben Franklin |
In complement to its diverse activities in raising awareness and participation of women in both entrepreneurship and investing, Wells Fargo supports this partnership of Ben Franklin Technology Partners of Southeastern Pennsylvania and the ... |
| 04.05.2016 | These very legit tech women won Rad Awards last night | Twelve entrepreneurs — and the causes they uphold — were honored Tuesday night during the 2016 edition of the Rad Awards, started by Leah Kauffman and her site, Rad Girls.
ROAR for Good founder and local Girl Develop It organizer Yasmine Mu... |
| 22.04.2016 | Fox Alum Launches Anti-Assault Pendant |
Currently available for pre-sale, Athena is one of the only anti assault mechanisms that cannot be used against you.
Yasmine Mustafa, a Temple alumni started ROAR for good following a solo trip to South America, where she discovered how pr... |
| 19.04.2016 | Startup cities have plenty in common: a SXSW conversation | Gather a bunch of founders from emerging entrepreneurship communities to talk about their cities, and they might lose track of who said what.
The goal of the Tomorrow Tour, a multi-city event and reporting series that we at Technical.ly and... |
| 15.03.2016 | AWE Ventures funds two more women-run companies |
These startups bring AWE Venture’s portfolio up to six companies. The other four are My Milkrate, ROAR for Good, Lia Diagnostics and I’m Sorry to Hear.
Meg 21 Skincare has recently started to blitz the market with its anti-aging skin care ... |
| 05.01.2016 | How Yasmine Mustafa’s Athena device is changing how we talk about sexual assault |
She’d fled Kuwait as a child and had been working since she was 9 years old, so in the summer of 2013, the young Philly entrepreneur also sold off her apartment and went backpacking through South America.
Though she describes the trip to C... |
| 17.11.2015 | Meet the Coin-Sized Rape Prevention Device That Beat Its Crowdfunding Goal by 5 Times |
What would you have if you designed a device the size of a quarter that a woman or girl could press in an emergency situation to set off a loud alarm, message family or friends, and summon the police? Especially if that device looked like ... |
| 02.10.2015 | AWE Ventures: Penn Mutual Goes Platinum, Companies Named |
“Penn Mutual, the Alliance of Women Entrepreneurs and Ben Franklin are fittingly aligned in empowering women to shape the future,” according to Eileen C. McDonnell, Penn Mutual’s chairman, president and chief executive officer. “Our Platin... |
| 19.06.2015 | Yasmine Mustafa’s ROAR for Good raises $150K | Yasmine Mustafa’s wearable tech startup has raised its first round of funding from all local investors.
The startup, called ROAR for Good, raised just over $150,000 following its graduation from DreamIt Ventures. (That number includes the $... |
| 11.06.2015 | Can Wearable Tech Combat Sexual Assault? |
Yasmine Mustafa knew things were out of control when somebody was abducted outside her Philadelphia apartment and raped. This wasn’t a bad part of town, either: The self-described serial entrepreneur lived in a pricey, well-lit part of dow... |
