We recently screened the 4 billionth person with Evolv’s products. We started counting with the first person in the Fall of 2019 with the launch of Evolv Express®. It took us until the Summer of 2020 to screen one million people. I look at this as 4 billion people going to watch a game, see a performance, visit a loved one in the hospital, go to school or head into work, were all a little bit safer. Each day we screen about 4 million, about twice as many as the TSA screens on an average day. On an average day, our customers report that they detect about 500 guns. Although many of these are legally carried, a few are not, and none are allowed to enter into a prohibited area. (Note: we have not screened half the world’s population. These are many of the same people who have gone into a variety of locations.)

Unfortunately, the world is such that weapons-related violence happens in too many places for too many people too often. We have built technology to help security teams provide one layer of a multi-layered security operation that can help detect and prevent weapons from entering places where they are prohibited. And our technology is great, but not perfect.  No technology is perfect, and this is one of the reasons that multiple layers are deployed.

Company History

We started Evolv after a personal experience at the Boston Marathon in April 2013. Violence struck too closely to where we were enjoying a beautiful Monday afternoon. It drove home the point that this violence has metastasized into our everyday lives. Places where we spend our day working or learning, we go for care and healing, we enjoy the entertainment of sports games, music concerts and artistic performances. It was simply not acceptable to Mike Ellenbogen and me to enjoy life with our friends & families in an environment where we would regularly be concerned about a violent event.

One thing was crystal clear to us: security screening that was done at airports and court houses was not going to be acceptable to all of these different venues. In fact, many of them had tried traditional screening technology after 9/11 and the lines and intrusiveness were too slow. We heard this time and again when we started.

To break the paradigm, we had to find a way to screen people as they moved through the system, do it quickly before they had moved on, and enable the security operator to ‘check’ people who alerted more effectively. This was the goal of our technology, and the products we offer. We have made strides toward this but will continue to innovate and invest in improving it.

Looking Forward

My hope is that one day weapons–related violence: gun violence, stabbings and explosives used to kill and maim will be a thing of the past. I truly hope so. However, there are many complex factors that have led to where we are. We are trying to simply be one part of the solution, and to do it as well as we can.

I want to thank our customers. The organizations that continue to incorporate technology into their security operations. The security leaders who have the foresight and courage to adopt new approaches (both new technologies and different operational processes), and the security operators who, every day, work their best to keep weapons from entering prohibited areas.

It’s a team effort. We are all making a difference. And we have more work to do.

Evolv By the Numbers

• 4B+ people screened since 2019
• 1B+ people screened in 2025
• 4M+ people screened per day (average) 

 In Perspective 

• 906M people screened by TSA in 2025 
• ~2.5M travelers screened per day by TSA (average) 
• Evolv screens nearly 2× more people per day on average than TSA (for 2025) 
• Daily volume advantage: ~1.5M+ more people per day than TSA (on average)