It started with one night that should have gone differently.
RaveSafe exists because the tools to keep people safe at live events haven't kept up with the events themselves.
A festival in Barcelona.
At a festival in Barcelona, a friend's phone died and the group lost her in the crowd. She eventually called from a police officer's phone. Security had only radios and bullhorns — no way to locate anyone. That same night, someone in the group was touched inappropriately, with no discreet way to report it in the moment.
None of it was unusual. That's the point. The scary part wasn't that things went wrong — it's that there was no system designed to catch any of it in real time.
RaveSafe is the answer to that night: a way to get help without a phone, without a scene, and a way for the people running the event to actually see what's happening while they can still do something about it.
Built by someone in the culture.
RaveSafe was conceived by Miles McCabe — a DJ and festival-goer who saw the gap firsthand, and a junior at Riverdale Country School in New York City. The idea began in a social-entrepreneurship course and was developed into a full business case: market research, customer interviews, competitor analysis, and a working product direction.
The goal isn't to make events feel policed. It's to make safety feel native to the culture — quiet, anonymous, and there when it's needed.
The wristband is the start, not the end.
The bigger idea is a connected sensing layer for crowded spaces — wearables, environmental sensors, and AI-driven detection that spots danger and directs response in real time.
The wristband + dashboard
Discreet, anonymous reporting and a real-time operator view. The foundation everything else builds on.
Environmental sensing
Crowd-density and condition signals layered onto the same map, so risks surface before they become incidents.
Safety intelligence
An AI layer that learns across events to make every future one safer — using only aggregated, de-identified data.
We're early, and we say so. We never claim capabilities that don't exist yet — the honest "here's the horizon" framing is what makes the vision credible.
Principles, not slogans.
Safety is the product
This protects people in real emergencies. Reliability, false-alarm handling, and edge cases come first.
Anonymity by default
No personal tracking. Only aggregated, de-identified data — it's core to the product and to trust.
Honest about being early
A prototype and a patent pending. Real trade-offs, real timelines, no overselling.
Want to help build it?
We're looking for pilot partners, advisors in festival medicine and security, and people who believe culture and safety aren't opposites.