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Smith Micro Software develops mobile applications and services that focus on digital safety, family protection, and voice messaging. Its products, such as SafePath and CommSuite, work by allowing mobile network operators to provide their customers with tools for location tracking, parental controls, and visual voicemail. Unlike many consumer-only apps, Smith Micro integrates its software directly with telecommunications providers and device manufacturers to offer these services as part of a mobile plan. The company's goal is to provide a secure digital environment for families while helping mobile operators increase customer engagement through licensed software solutions.
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Company Size
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Company Stage
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Headquarters
McCandless, Pennsylvania
Founded
1982
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Consumer Cellular has launched a connected-care solution for older adults built on Smith Micro Software's SafePath OS for Senior Phone platform. The service is available through Consumer Cellular's SpeakEasy brand on both smartphone and flip phone devices. The solution combines a simplified phone interface with a companion caregiver app available on iOS and Android. Features include large fonts, voice assistance, real-time location sharing, safety zone alerts, and emergency notifications to family members. Consumer Cellular is the first wireless provider to bring SafePath OS for Senior Phone to market. The service, called SpeakEasy Connect Care+, is available through the company's website, retail stores, and call centre. Smith Micro CEO Tim Huffmyer described the launch as an important milestone, highlighting growing demand for technology designed specifically for seniors whilst supporting their independence.
Smith Micro introduces SafePath Connect(TM), expanding availability of its Family Safety solutions. PITTSBURGH, PA, August 13, 2026 - Smith Micro Software, Inc. (Nasdaq: SMSI) today announced the availability of SafePath Connect(TM), a new family safety solution designed to help partners quickly offer trusted digital family safety services to consumers. Built on Smith Micro's proven SafePath(R) platform, SafePath Connect delivers the same trusted real-time location services, parental controls, digital wellness tools, and family safety capabilities, while offering partners a simplified path to market. By leveraging app store distribution by Smith Micro, a broader range of partners can offer safety-focused experiences without the need for complex integration or development. The solution is designed to support modern family needs by bringing together location awareness, smart alerts, and flexible controls that help families stay connected in day-to-day life. "I am pleased to announce the launch of SafePath Connect, representing an important evolution of the SafePath platform," said Tim Huffmyer, President and Chief Executive Officer of Smith Micro. "It gives partners a streamlined way to deliver meaningful family safety services to their audiences, providing a fast-to-market alternative while reducing operational complexity, creating a larger market opportunity for Smith Micro." A Complete, Ready-to-Deploy Family Safety Solution For many years, SafePath has been delivered as white-label offerings through wireless carriers. While this model provides a deeply integrated experience, it often requires months of implementation and meaningful investment. SafePath Connect extends the same trusted family safety capabilities through a streamlined deployment model, leveraging Smith Micro's branded product while allowing partners to support promotion and customer acquisition. As a result, organizations can quickly and easily offer family safety services to their audiences, significantly reducing time to market. SafePath Connect provides a comprehensive set of capabilities designed to support how families manage connectivity and digital experiences, including: * Real-time location services to help keep track of where family members are throughout the day * Smart alerts and notifications that provide timely updates on key moments like arrivals and departures * Parental controls to guide device usage and content access at age-appropriate levels * Screen time management tools to help establish healthy digital habits These features are powered by the SafePath platform, a carrier-grade foundation that enables reliable, secure management of connected devices and digital lifestyles. Built for Flexible Partner Offerings SafePath Connect is designed for partners looking to engage consumers with minimal complexity. The solution is published to the app stores and distributed by Smith Micro and enables partners to deliver subscription entitlements to their end users to enhance their portfolio of service offerings and attract and retain family subscribers. The solution offers a fast-to-market option for mobile carriers and other partners seeking a simpler alternative to traditional, fully integrated deployments. Extending the SafePath Platform SafePath Connect reflects the ongoing expansion of the SafePath platform, extending its core capabilities into new product experiences designed for a wider range of users. By introducing a streamlined deployment model that enables organizations to quickly and easily offer family safety solutions to their audiences, Smith Micro is evolving how SafePath technology is packaged and delivered. This approach will allow Smith Micro to reach new markets and customer segments while maintaining a consistent foundation of reliability, scalability, and security across its portfolio. About SafePath(R) The SafePath platform provides comprehensive and easy-to-use tools to protect digital lifestyles and manage connected devices through a single app. As a carrier-grade solution, SafePath empowers wireless service providers and cable operators to bring to market full-featured, on-brand family safety solutions that provide in-demand services such as location, parental controls, screen time management and driver monitoring to mobile subscribers. SafePath-based solutions activate new revenue opportunities for service providers while helping to increase brand affinity and reduce subscriber churn. Learn more at smithmicro.com/safepath. About Smith Micro Software, Inc. Smith Micro develops software to simplify and enhance the mobile experience, providing solutions to some of the leading wireless service providers around the world. From enabling Digital Family Lifestyle(TM) to providing powerful voice messaging capabilities, Smith Micro's solutions enrich today's connected lifestyles while creating new opportunities to engage consumers via smartphones and consumer IoT devices. For more information, visit www.smithmicro.com. Smith Micro and the Smith Micro logo are registered trademarks or trademarks of Smith Micro Software, Inc. Forward-Looking Statements Certain statements in this press release are forward-looking statements regarding future events or results within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act, including statements related to the future availability and launch of Smith Micro's products and services and/or upgrades, updates and enhancements to its products and services, other projections of outlook or performance and future business plans, the benefits that Smith Micro believes its solutions will offer to its customers and to their end users, and statements using such words as "expect," "anticipate," "believe," "plan," "intend," "could," "will" and other similar expressions. Forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties, which could cause actual results to differ materially from those expressed or implied in the forward-looking statements. Among the important factors that could cause or contribute to such differences are its ability to establish and maintain strategic relationships with its customers and mobile device manufacturers, their ability to attract customers, and their willingness to promote its products; its ability and/or customers' ability to distribute its mobile software applications to their end users through third party mobile software application stores, which Smith Micro Software Inc. do not control; its dependency upon effective operation with operating systems, devices, networks and standards that Smith Micro Software Inc. do not control and on its continued relationships with mobile operating system providers, device manufacturers and mobile software application stores; unanticipated delays or obstacles in its development and release cycles and the degree to which competing business needs or resource availability may affect its allocation of resources to planned projects; its ability to hire and retain key personnel; interruptions or delays in the services Smith Micro Software Inc. provide from its data center and cloud hosting facilities; the existence of undetected software defects in its products and its failure to resolve detected defects in a timely manner; rapid technological evolution and resulting changes in demand for its products from its key customers and their end users. These and other factors discussed in its filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including its filings on Forms 10-K and 10-Q, could cause actual results to differ materially from those expressed or implied in any forward-looking statements. The forward-looking statements contained in this release are made on the basis of the views and assumptions of management, and Smith Micro Software Inc. do not undertake any obligation to update these statements to reflect events or circumstances occurring after the date of this release.
Smith Micro Software has launched SDKs and APIs for its SafePath family safety platform, enabling mobile and service providers to integrate safety features directly into their own applications. The new deployment options allow providers to embed location insights, parental controls, digital safety tools and driving monitoring without requiring users to download a separate app. Chief Executive Officer Tim Huffmyer said the solutions give partners flexibility to deliver family safety experiences that fit their business goals, whether through standalone apps or integrated capabilities. The SDKs and APIs provide access to features including family location awareness, screen time controls, content filtering and emergency safety tools. The expansion aims to simplify onboarding, reduce app fragmentation and increase visibility of safety features within applications customers already use. Built on Smith Micro's existing SafePath platform, the SDK and API configuration is designed to accelerate deployment whilst allowing operators to maintain control over branding and user experience.
Smith Micro expands SafePath(R) platform with new SDK and API deployment options. PITTSBURGH, PA, July 27, 2026 - Smith Micro Software, Inc. (NASDAQ: SMSI), a leading provider of software solutions that simplify and enhance the mobile experience, announces the availability of SafePath(R) SDKs and APIs, delivering expanded deployment options that will enable mobile and other service providers to integrate trusted SafePath family safety capabilities directly into their own mobile applications. SafePath SDKs and APIs give service providers greater flexibility in how they deliver mobile family safety services, allowing them to embed key SafePath family safety features and functionality within their own branded applications, while maintaining a consistent user experience. By leveraging Smith Micro's SafePath SDK and API options, service providers can deliver location insights, digital safety tools, parental controls, and other family-focused features without requiring their end users to download and manage a separate application. The new deployment options are the latest expansion of the SafePath platform portfolio, which already includes fully branded applications and customizable deployment models designed to meet the unique needs of service providers worldwide. "We recognize that every mobile provider has a different strategy for engaging subscribers," said Tim Huffmyer, Chief Executive Officer of Smith Micro. "The SafePath SDK and API solutions give our partners the flexibility to deliver family safety experiences in the way that best fits their business and customer experience goals. Whether providers want a standalone app or integrated capabilities within an existing application, SafePath now offers another path to bringing valuable family safety services to market." By integrating SafePath directly into an operator's existing digital experience, the SafePath SDK and API deployment can help simplify onboarding, reduce app fragmentation, and increase visibility of family safety features within applications customers already use every day. SafePath SDKs and APIs provide access to a range of capabilities, including: * Family location awareness * Place and arrival notifications * Screen time and parental controls * Content filtering and digital safety tools * Emergency and safety features * Driving insights and family activity monitoring Built on the same proven SafePath platform used by leading mobile service providers around the world, the SDK and API configuration is designed to accelerate deployment while allowing operators to maintain control over branding, user experience, and feature implementation. "With the availability of SafePath SDKs and APIs, we are making our family safety services more accessible and easier to deploy and expanding our total addressable market," added Huffmyer."As service providers look for new ways to strengthen customer engagement and deliver value-added services, we're committed to providing flexible solutions that help them meet evolving market needs." SafePath SDKs and APIs are available now for mobile providers and other strategic partners. About SafePath(R) The SafePath platform provides comprehensive and easy-to-use tools to protect digital lifestyles and manage connected devices through a single app. As a carrier-grade solution, SafePath empowers wireless service providers and cable operators to bring to market full-featured, on-brand family safety solutions that provide in-demand services such as location, parental controls, screen time management, and driver monitoring to mobile subscribers. SafePath-based solutions activate new revenue opportunities for service providers while helping to increase brand affinity and reduce subscriber churn. Learn more at smithmicro.com/safepath. About Smith Micro Software, Inc. Smith Micro develops software to simplify and enhance the mobile experience, providing solutions to some of the leading wireless service providers around the world. From enabling Digital Family Lifestyle(TM) to providing powerful voice messaging capabilities, Smith Micro's solutions enrich today's connected lifestyles while creating new opportunities to engage consumers via smartphones and consumer IoT devices. For more information, visit www.smithmicro.com. Smith Micro and the Smith Micro logo are registered trademarks or trademarks of Smith Micro Software, Inc. Forward-Looking Statements Certain statements in this press release are forward-looking statements regarding future events or results within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act, including statements related to future business plans, and statements using such words as "expect," "anticipate," "believe," "plan," "intend," "could," "will" and other similar expressions. Forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties, which could cause actual results to differ materially from those expressed or implied in the forward-looking statements. Among the important factors that could cause or contribute to such differences are its customer concentration, given that the majority of its sales currently depend on a few large customer relationships; its ability to establish and maintain strategic relationships with its customers and mobile device manufacturers, their ability to attract customers, and their willingness to promote its products; its ability and/or customers' ability to distribute its mobile software applications to their end users through third party mobile software application stores, which Smith Micro Software Inc. do not control; its dependency upon effective operation with operating systems, devices, networks and standards that Smith Micro Software Inc. do not control and on its continued relationships with mobile operating system providers, device manufacturers and mobile software application stores; its ability to hire and retain key personnel; the possibility of security and privacy breaches in its systems and in the third-party software and/or systems that Smith Micro Software Inc. use, damaging client relations and inhibiting its ability to grow; interruptions or delays in the services Smith Micro Software Inc. provide from its data center and cloud hosting facilities; the existence of undetected software defects in its products and its failure to resolve detected defects in a timely manner; its ability to remain a going concern; its ability to raise additional capital and the risk of such capital not being available to Smith Micro Software Inc. at commercially reasonable terms or at all; its ability to be profitable; current and potential future negative impacts from cost reduction efforts Smith Micro Software Inc. has taken and may in the future undertake; changes in its operating income due to shifts in its sales mix and variability in its operating expenses; adverse impact to its results of operations if Smith Micro Software Inc. fail to realize the full value of its intangible assets; its current client concentration within the vertical wireless carrier market, and the potential impact to its business resulting from changes within this vertical market, or failure to penetrate new markets; rapid technological evolution and resulting changes in demand for its products from its key customers and their end users; intense competition in its industry and the core vertical markets in which Smith Micro Software Inc. operate, and its ability to successfully compete; the risks inherent with international operations; the impact of evolving information security and data privacy laws on its business and industry; the impact of governmental regulations on its business and industry; its ability to protect its intellectual property and its ability to operate its business without infringing on the rights of others; the risk of being delisted from Nasdaq if Smith Micro Software Inc. continue to fail to meet any of its applicable listing requirements. These and other factors discussed in its filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including its filings on Forms 10-K and 10-Q, could cause actual results to differ materially from those expressed or implied in any forward-looking statements. The forward-looking statements contained in this release are made on the basis of the views and assumptions of management, and Smith Micro Software Inc. do not undertake any obligation to update these statements to reflect events or circumstances occurring after the date of this release.
Smith Micro Software has signed a contract with a new carrier customer and completed an executive succession plan, appointing Tim Huffmeyer as CEO and Bethany Braun as CFO. The company reported a 9% revenue decrease in Q1 2026 compared to the previous year, with family safety revenue down 10%. Despite the decline, Smith Micro achieved a gross margin of 78.4%, up from 72.8% the previous year, and reduced GAAP operating expenses by 22%. The company reported a net loss of $3.9 million for the quarter and held $1.7 million in cash as of 31 March 2026. Management expects strong Q2 growth, forecasting a 24% revenue increase compared to Q1, with guidance of $5.2 million. The company anticipates consistent revenue growth throughout the year, with particular focus on the senior market segment.
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Industries
Data & Analytics
Consumer Software
Enterprise Software
Cybersecurity
Company Size
201-500
Company Stage
IPO
Headquarters
McCandless, Pennsylvania
Founded
1982
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