SAFETRIP is a wonderful app designed to book non-emergency and emergency medical transport for the elderly, veterans, homeless, and anyone else in need. Surprisingly, this revolutionary idea was co-founded by young engineer Langston Whitlock.
At 12 years-old, Langston was learning to code and fell in love with it. Eventually, Langston used his newfound knowledge to make an app to contact his absent father. With these skills, Langston was later brought on to the SAFETRIP team by Ja’Nese Jean.
Ja’Nese Jean, a co-founder of SAFETRIP, birthed the idea when witnessing a homeless veteran not having access to healthcare or transportation. Knowing Langston’s skillset, she invited him to the developing team to collaborate together and make the revolutionary app come to life.
This app allows its users to book emergency or non-emergency transportation. Vehicles include premium cars, vans, wheelchair accessible vehicles, and ambulances as needed.
Since its creation, SAFETRIP has raised over 2 million dollars in funding because of Langston’s technology. Although it’s currently based in Georgia, the company hopes to soon expand into other parts of the country and make an even bigger impact.
By having a way of contacting emergency transport by means other than a phone call, the possibilities for getting people help widens significantly. It also opens up the lines for other emergencies so that the burden of the number 911 is lessened. This is an all around great idea and has lots of potential.
I also did a post on Langston’s company and was amazed that he was coding at age 12. I did not know that the other co founder was the one who came up with the idea of the business and she then included Langston because of his skill with coding and intelligence to collaborate.