Groupdolists
A platform for coordinating how organizations respond to threat events.
| Date | Investors | Amount | Round |
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| - | investor | €0.0 | round |
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$1.5m | Seed | ||
| Total Funding | 000k | ||
Groupdolists, founded in 2012 by Michael J. Sher, provides a crisis management platform designed to help organizations coordinate responses to unexpected disruptions. Sher's background as a co-founder of Send Word Now, a mass notification service established after the 9/11 attacks and later acquired by Veritas in 2017, directly informed the creation of Groupdolists, aiming to address the need for more advanced response team coordination beyond simple notifications.
The company operates in the crisis and incident management market, serving a diverse client base that includes major corporations, government agencies, schools, and universities. Its business model centers on a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) platform that digitizes and automates emergency operating procedures. Organizations use the platform to manage responses to a variety of threats such as cyber-attacks, data breaches, workplace violence, and natural disasters. In January 2018, the company secured a $1.5 million seed funding round led by Responder Ventures. Groupdolists was later acquired by Infinite Blue on January 18, 2022.
The Groupdolists platform enables organizations to move from paper-based, manual response plans to a digital, automated system. It allows incident leaders to instantly activate response plans, mobilize teams, and assign and track tasks in real-time. Key features include the ability to digitize standard operating procedures (SOPs), create task lists with attachments like files and photos, and provide a common operating picture for all stakeholders. The platform offers real-time chat, tap-to-join conference calls, and generates a chronological audit trail of all activities for after-action analysis. This mobile-centric tool ensures that response teams, whether in a central operations center or dispersed globally, are synchronized and have access to critical information on any device.
Keywords: crisis management, incident response, emergency management, business continuity, risk management, security operations, response team coordination, digital operating procedures, common operating picture, situational awareness, task management, corporate security, public safety technology, disaster recovery, enterprise software, mobile response, audit trail, automated notifications, threat response, team collaboration