One Tap to Safety: AURA's Mission to Make Help Borderless with Warren Myers
Join Warren Myers, CEO and Co-Founder of AURA, for a conversation on one of the most urgent and underleveraged opportunities in global tech — democratizing access to emergency response.
Warren's journey began with a video monitoring business in South Africa, built to detect crimes in real time and alert police to respond. But even with video evidence, police response was often too slow or didn't happen at all — and that gap is where AURA was born. Today, AURA is the continent's largest network of private emergency responders, with expansion now reaching the UK, Kenya, and the United States.
In this episode, we explore how Warren is blending deep tech, global infrastructure, and a relentless impact mission to build what he calls a borderless emergency response economy — one tap at a time.
🎯 Insights You'll Learn:
The Gap That Sparked AURA: Why overstretched public safety infrastructure — not just in Africa, but globally — created a massive, underserved market for smart, private emergency response.
How the Platform Works: AURA enables the dispatch of the nearest vetted emergency responder via seamless API integration — platform-agnostic, closing the loop between detection and human response.
The API-First Strategy: AURA's mission is to make access to life-saving services seamless, borderless, and available through a single API — empowering individuals and the platforms that serve them.
Impact at Scale: AURA estimates it is currently saving five lives per day in South Africa alone, with documented cases including the prevention of gender-based violence, near-drownings, and support during premature childbirths.
Cracking the U.S. Market: AURA is now launching its on-demand private security response model in the U.S., addressing the growing demand for alternatives to under-resourced public safety services.
Embedding Into Everything: AURA is scaling rapidly and embedding its smart response technology into mobile apps, wearables, insurance products, and IoT platforms.
The Global Scaling Playbook: How Warren has navigated building a profitable, multi-market, impact-driven platform — and what other founders can learn from doing it across vastly different regulatory and infrastructure environments.
🌍 Why This Matters:
Emergency response is one of the most critical and least disrupted systems in the world. AURA's algorithm automatically routes the closest vetted responder to the user's live location, cutting average response times from 30 minutes to under 8 minutes in core markets. The implications go far beyond security — this is a new layer of human safety infrastructure, built on technology, that can reach anyone with a connected device regardless of geography or income.
👤 Expert Background:
CEO & Co-Founder of AURA — a platform connecting people, properties, and responders through smart technology, delivering faster, more reliable protection when it matters most.
Founder of Africa's largest private emergency responder network, now live across South Africa, Kenya, the UK, and the United States.
Backed by a €13.5M Series B round, AURA has created South Africa's largest response network of over 3,000 security and medical responders.
Extensive experience scaling security and response systems across multiple markets and regulatory environments.
🎙️ Hosted by Gary Fowler, CEO of GSD Venture Studios — global AI entrepreneur, investor, and innovation leader spotlighting founders navigating the realities of building in the AI era.
💡 Perfect For:
Impact investors, insurtech and IoT founders, public safety innovators, enterprise security executives, emerging market operators, and anyone building platforms where lives are on the line.
🚀 Timely Topic:
As public safety systems strain under population growth, resource constraints, and rising demand, the private sector has a rare opportunity — and responsibility — to step in. Warren Myers is proving it can be done profitably, at global scale, without losing sight of the mission.
