Smart home and security monitoring

What is ADT?

ADT sells, installs, monitors, and services residential and small-business security, smart-home, and life-safety systems.

Category
Smart home and security monitoring
Headquarters
Boca Raton, Florida
Founded
1874
Employees
About 14,000
Total funding
N/A - public company
Valuation or Status
NYSE: ADT public company

What is ADT?

ADT is a smart home and security monitoring company headquartered in Boca Raton, Florida; latest public materials show $5.0 billion to $5.2 billion 2025 revenue outlook.

ADT is a smart home and security monitoring company headquartered in Boca Raton, Florida. Its latest public reporting shows $5.0 billion to $5.2 billion 2025 revenue outlook, About 14,000 employees, and a public-company status of NYSE: ADT public company. The business serves large institutional, commercial, public-sector, and infrastructure customers where contract reliability matters more than one-off purchasing.

The operating model is built around multi-year accounts, local branches, route or project density, and repeatable field execution. Customers typically buy an outcome such as safer facilities, cleaner buildings, reliable meals, delivered materials, secured assets, or completed infrastructure rather than a standalone software product. That makes workforce planning, procurement, safety, and contract management central to performance.

For sellers, ADT behaves like an enterprise account with distributed buyers. Corporate finance, procurement, IT, legal, HR, safety, and regional operations all influence decisions, while local branches or operating units often shape adoption after a vendor is approved.

What does ADT offer?

ADT offers services and products across Home security monitoring, ADT+ smart-home platform, Video and access control and related categories.

  • Home security monitoring· Smart home and security monitoring
  • ADT+ smart-home platform· Smart home and security monitoring
  • Video and access control· Smart home and security monitoring
  • Fire and life safety· Smart home and security monitoring
  • Small-business security· Smart home and security monitoring
  • Professional installation· Smart home and security monitoring

How does ADT make money?

ADT earns revenue from negotiated enterprise contracts, recurring services, project work, and materials or service-line sales rather than public self-serve pricing tiers.

ADT makes money through contracted services, project work, materials sales, or recurring route-based programs tied to its smart home and security monitoring focus. Public price tiers are generally not disclosed because enterprise contracts are negotiated by scope, location, labor model, equipment, service-level requirements, materials costs, and term length. The practical pricing model is therefore bid-based or contract-based rather than a transparent SaaS-style rate card.

Revenue quality depends on renewal rates, new-business wins, backlog conversion, route density, labor productivity, pricing discipline, and procurement scale. In field-heavy categories, margins can move quickly when wage inflation, fuel, subcontractor costs, weather, project execution, or commodity inputs change. Larger customers usually require insurance, safety, compliance, cybersecurity, and supplier-management controls before expanding a relationship.

Growth is driven by organic sales, price realization, cross-selling, acquisitions, and expansion into higher-value services. Vendors selling into ADT should map budgets to operating efficiency, safety, fleet, workforce productivity, procurement savings, customer experience, and integration with existing enterprise systems.

Who leads ADT?

ADT's leadership includes Jim DeVries (Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer), Jeff Likosar (President, Corporate Development and Chief Financial Officer), Gilles Drieu (Chief Technology Officer).

  • Jim DeVriesChairman, President and Chief Executive OfficerCEO since 2018Leads ADT's smart-home and monitoring strategy.
  • Jeff LikosarPresident, Corporate Development and Chief Financial OfficerCFO since 2024Owns finance, transformation, and corporate development.
  • Gilles DrieuChief Technology OfficerTechnology leaderLeads product, platform, and technology capabilities.
  • Bob KupbensChief Product and Technology OfficerProduct executiveSupports ADT+ and customer experience programs.

How do you contact ADT's leadership?

Use the published investor-relations or corporate mailbox investorrelations@adt.com; no personal executive email is presented here as verified unless the company publishes it.

Email formatinvestorrelations@adt.com

How much funding has ADT raised?

ADT is a public company, so disclosed venture funding is not applicable; the relevant status is NYSE: ADT public company.

ADT is a public company, so venture funding rounds are not the relevant capital-history lens. The current profile should be read as public-market status rather than private funding: NYSE: ADT public company, with market capitalization changing daily based on share price. The page therefore records total funding as not applicable instead of inventing venture rounds.

The major financing milestones are the company's founding, public listing or spin-off where applicable, material acquisitions, and recent fiscal-year performance. Public companies fund growth through operating cash flow, revolving credit facilities, bond or term-loan markets, equity issuance when appropriate, and acquisition financing rather than seed, Series A, or Series B rounds.

For sellers, public-company status usually means mature procurement, formal information-security reviews, finance controls, and budget owners who must tie new tools or services to productivity, margin, safety, compliance, or revenue growth.

How did ADT get here?

ADT's history is defined by its founding, public-market milestones, acquisitions, and recent fiscal performance.

  1. 1874American District Telegraph foundedADT began as a telegraph-based alarm and messenger network.
  2. 2016Apollo took ADT privateADT combined with Protection 1 and ASG.
  3. 2018Returned to public marketsADT completed its IPO on the NYSE.
  4. 2020Google strategic partnershipADT announced a smart-home partnership with Google.
  5. 2025ADT+ platform focusManagement positioned ADT+ as a core smart-home intelligence platform.

Who are ADT's competitors?

ADT competes with public and private operators that sell adjacent services to enterprise, institutional, infrastructure, or construction-materials buyers.

  • VivintSmart-home security provider with professional installation and monitoring.
  • SimpliSafeDIY-focused home-security company with lower-friction installation.
  • RingAmazon-owned video doorbell and home-security ecosystem.
  • Alarm.comSaaS platform powering many independent security dealers.
  • Brinks HomeResidential security monitoring competitor distinct from The Brink's Company.

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