All parents could use an extra set of eyes.
Jiobit is a tiny location tracking smart tag and app for our most precious cargo: Our kids. It allows you to track your kids anywhere, anytime and will even alert you if they wander off. With up to a week of battery life, a durable and discreet design, and alerts that matter, Jiobit gives parents peace of mind while allowing kids to be kids.
Jiobit is a tiny location tracking smart tag and app for our most precious cargo: Our kids. It allows you to track your kids anywhere, anytime and will even alert you if they wander off. With up to a week of battery life, a durable and discreet design, and alerts that matter, Jiobit gives parents peace of mind while allowing kids to be kids.
Location: United States, Illinois, Chicago
Employees: 11-50
Total raised: $10.7M
Founded date: 2015
Investors 11
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Funding Rounds 3
| Date | Series | Amount | Investors |
| 25.11.2018 | - | $6.5M | - |
| 11.02.2017 | - | $3M | - |
| 27.06.2016 | - | $1.2M | - |
Mentions in press and media 23
| Date | Title | Description |
| 26.10.2025 | Wearable tech for your dog? Life360 releases a new pet tracker | By Queenie Wong, Los Angeles Times Millions of people already use the Life360 app to track the location of their family members and loved ones. Now the California tech company behind the popular family safety app is hoping people will use a... |
| 21.06.2025 | One Tech Tip: No more lost cats and dogs. Use tech to track your pet | There are many products on the market. Tractive, Jiobit and Pawfit are among brands that offer trackers for both dogs and cats. Devices for the latter are generally smaller and lighter. An Apple Air Tag and a Chipolo Bluetooth tracker are s... |
| 18.10.2023 | Wearables Are On The Rebound. Will Safety Devices Usher In A New Wave Of Consumers? | By Paolo Bitanga |
| 21.08.2021 | This Week in Apps: OnlyFans bans sexual content, SharePlay delayed, TikTok questioned over biometric data collection | Welcome back to This Week in Apps, the weekly TechCrunch series that recaps the latest in mobile OS news, mobile applications and the overall app economy. The app industry continues to grow, with a record 218 billion downloads and $143 bill... |
| 28.04.2021 | Семейное GPS-приложение Life360 приобретёт стартап Jiobit за $37 млн | Image сredit: Jiobit Как сообщает портал TechCrunch, Life360 планирует добавить возможность покупки девайса Jiobit через свое приложение с последующей автоматической синхронизацией. Пользователи, оформившие в приложении премиум-аккаунт, смо... |
| 27.04.2021 | Family tracking app Life360 to acquire wearable location device Jiobit for $37M | Popular family tracking app Life360 is investing in hardware. The company this morning announced the $37 million acquisition of Chicago-based Jiobit, the maker of a wearable location device designed for use by families with younger children... |
| 08.02.2021 | Jiobit launches an improved version of its kid (or pet) tracker, the Jiobit Next | A Chicago-based startup, Jiobit, wanted to make a better child location tracker than the bulky smartwatches and other insecurely designed products already on the market. So in 2018, it launched its own modular kid tracker — a small dongle o... |
| 26.10.2019 | Jiobit: Keeping an Eye on Your Kids with a Portable GPS Device | Thanks to technology, you can know exactly where your kids are and who they are with. Knowing who my kids are hanging with while I’m working is one of the reasons I was drawn to the Jiobit. It’s a GPS solution for tracking down your kids an... |
| 17.03.2019 | 12 Chicago VCs You Should Know About | Chicago is quietly becoming a hotbed of venture capital that fuels technology startups — not just in Chicago but across the country and in a wide range of industries. For example, did you know that Calm, SpaceX, and Coinbase all received fu... |
| 30.11.2018 | Here Are the Chicago Tech Companies That Raised Money In November | This is our round up of Chicago tech and startup companies that received venture capital investments during the month of November. If we missed one, let us know at info@chicagoinno.com. To get funding updates in your inbox each day, sign up... |
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