A friend’s death sent AJ Leahy from finance into campus-safety technology. At POM Safe, he has spent the years since working on a deceptively small problem: getting a person, a location and someone who can help into the same conversation.

A personal loss sent the former financial analyst searching for a faster call for help. A decade later, POM Safe is moving upstream - from emergency response to the quieter work of spotting risk before a visit begins.