Vivint

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Vivint Smart Home, Inc.
Company type Subsidiary
NYSE: VVNT (2020–2023)
Industry Security systems, fire detection, home automation
Founded1997;28 years ago (1997) (as APX Alarm Security Solutions)
Founder
Headquarters Provo, Utah,
U.S.
Key people
  • Mauricio Gutierrez
RevenueIncrease2.svgUS$1,682 million (2022)
Increase2.svgUS$−154 million (2022)
Increase2.svgUS$−51 million (2022)
Total equity Decrease2.svgUS$1,702 million (2022)
Number of employees
12,000 (2022)
Parent NRG Energy
Website vivint.com
Footnotes /references
Financials as of December 31,2022.
References: [1]

Vivint Smart Home, Inc. an NRG company, is United States-based smart home and security provider delivering an integrated smart home system with in-home consultation, installation and support, and monitoring. Vivint offers a range of integrated smart home and security products, including cameras, locks, safety sensors, thermostats, lighting, managed through the Vivint Smart Hub and mobile app. [2]

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As of 2024, Vivint has over two million customers across all fifty states with more than 27 million devices managed. The company employs more than 12,000 people in the US, holds more than 400 patents, and performs approximately 500,000 professional installations or upgrades annually. [3]

History

In 1999, Keith Nellesen and Todd Pedersen co-founded APX Alarm Security Solutions in Provo, Utah. [4] [5] At the time, the company sold and installed security systems. [4] APX Alarm Security Solutions rebranded as Vivint in February 2011. [4] [6] Vivint was acquired by The Blackstone Group in November 2012. [7]

The company launched Vivint Solar, a solar energy company, in 2011. [8] Vivint Solar went public in October 2014 and was later purchased by Sunrun. [9] [10]

In February 2014, the company donated $1 million to the Utah Valley University, along with a $1 million investment from Vivint's CEO, to establish a professional sales program and a SMART Lab for marketing research. [11] [12]

Vivint's former CEO Todd Pedersen appeared on the CBS television show Undercover Boss in February 2015. [13]

In 2015, Vivint became the official safety sponsor for Autism Speaks. [14] Between 2015 and 2023, Vivint acquired the naming rights to rename the Utah Jazz's home arena to Vivint Arena, where in April 2018 Vivint added a new sensory room at the arena for children with autism spectrum disorder. [15] [16]

The 2017 J.D. Power 2017 Home Security Satisfaction Study ranked Vivint as the "Highest in Home Security Customer Satisfaction" among home security brands. [17] The 2020 Home Security Satisfaction Study ranked Vivint second, behind AT&T Digital Life. [18]

In January 2020, Vivint completed a merger with Mosaic Acquisition Corp. and became a publicly traded company on the New York Stock Exchange. [19]

In December 2022, NRG announced the acquisition of Vivint Smart Home for $2.8 billion in cash, adding home security and automation to its offerings, expected to close on the first quarter of 2023. [20]

In 2023, under the Vivint Gives Back program the company's employees packed and delivered 40,000 meal kits in cooperation with the Granite Education Foundation for children. [21]

Products and services

Vivint offers home security products, including doorbell cameras, smart thermostats, indoor cameras, and integrations with lighting. [22] [23] [24] [25] [26] In 2019, Vivint launched products for car security, and outdoor home security cameras. [26] [27]

In 2017, Vivint announced a partnership with Airbnb to allow hosts to integrate Airbnb accounts with Vivint products. [28] In 2018, Vivint collaborated with Google to include two Google Home Mini devices in starter kits. [29]

Prior to its acquisition by NRG, Vivint settled lawsuits with Arkansas, Oregon, Ohio, and Nebraska [30] [31] along with two class-action lawsuits for alleged violations of the Telephone Consumer Protection Act of 1991. [32] [33] [34] [35] In 2018, ADT agreed to a $10 million settlement with Vivint after ADT claimed agents misled nearly 1,000 customers to sign up. [36] [37]

In May 2021, Vivint was fined $20 million for violations of the Fair Credit Reporting Act under Federal Trade Commission Act of 1914 when sales representatives used the names and identities of people without their consent in the place of customers who failed credit checks. Vivint then sold the debt to collectors in violation of the FTC's Red Flags Rule. [38] [39]

In December 2021, CPI Security alleged that Vivint sales representatives used deceptive tactics to acquire CPI's customers, including claiming that Vivint acquired CPI. [40] [41] In March 2022, Vivint paid $400,000 in penalties and restitution after the Arizona Attorney General alleged Vivint's sales representatives used deceptive marketing practices, including false representations of Vivint services, false claims that the customer's security company was being bought by Vivint, and non-consensual extensions of contracts. [42] [43]

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