Alarm.com Holdings, Inc.

What does Alarm.com own?

It owns the connected-property platform, its dealer network relationships, and acquired service brands including EnergyHub, PointCentral, Shooter Detection Systems, and Noonlight.

Is Alarm.com publicly traded?

Yes. It trades on Nasdaq under ticker ALRM as an S&P 600 component after its June 2015 IPO.

Who founded Alarm.com?

Jean-Paul Martin and Alison J. Slavin founded it inside MicroStrategy in 2000, with Steve Trundle as CEO throughout its history.

Where is Alarm.com headquartered?

Tysons, Virginia, in the Northern Virginia technology corridor where it began as a MicroStrategy unit.

How many brands does Alarm.com own?

The master Alarm.com platform plus four-to-five acquired service brands covering energy, access, detection, and emergency response.

Who owns Alarm.com?

Public shareholders. Institutional investors hold most equity, and no founder, family, or other company controls it.

How does Alarm.com make money?

Monthly SaaS and license fees paid by dealer partners for each connected subscriber, plus sales of cameras, sensors, and hardware that feed the platform.

The company started inside MicroStrategy in 2000, when CEO Steve Trundle, then MicroStrategy's CTO, realized a cut phone line rendered a standard alarm useless. Engineers Jean-Paul Martin and Alison Slavin built the solution: security systems connected over cellular and internet rather than vulnerable landlines.

Early products delivered alerts by email and text. The 2003 web-based monitoring launch and the remote arm/disarm capability that followed made Alarm.com one of the first companies to put a security system on a smartphone, arriving in the Apple App Store shortly after it opened.

MicroStrategy sold Alarm.com in February 2009 for $27.7 million to a consortium led by ABS Capital Partners and Egis Capital. The buyout's timing proved ideal: the smartphone era was beginning, and the company pivoted to powering dealers rather than selling direct.

Technology Crossover Ventures invested $136 million in 2012, and the June 2015 Nasdaq IPO at $14 per share funded the next phase: expanding from security into the full connected property platform covering video, energy, water, and access control.

Acquisition has layered new services onto the platform: EnergyHub added utility demand-response programs, PointCentral brought smart access for property managers, Shooter Detection Systems added gunshot detection, and Noonlight connected emergency response.

Fiscal 2025 revenue hit $1.01 billion, crossing the billion-dollar mark for the first time, with SaaS and license revenue compounding at a 10.1 percent rate over the prior two years and international expansion pushing beyond the North American core.

Alarm.com's clearest sustainability contribution runs through EnergyHub, whose demand-response programs let utilities coordinate millions of connected thermostats and devices to cut peak energy demand, a measurable grid benefit delivered through the same platform that runs security.

The material ethics dimension is in-home data: a platform that sees cameras, door locks, and occupancy sensors across millions of homes carries heavy privacy and security obligations, handled through encryption practices and security disclosures.

Alarm.com's record is clean for a company of its scale. Its public disputes are the standard patent litigation of the connected-device sector, where overlapping intellectual property produces periodic suits and settlements without material impact.

The broader industry debates touch it: privacy questions around connected cameras and home data, and competition concerns as platform giants like Amazon move into services that bypass professional dealers, though neither has produced regulatory action against the company.