The Boston Globe

Flare puts survivors’ voices and experiences first when developing their unique safety tech

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"The pitch by the co-founders of safety bracelet company Flare sounds a little different than other startups. ‘You can’t really talk about a product like Flare without talking about how awful it is that it needs to exist in the first place,’ said co-founder Sara de Zarraga. De Zarraga and her co-founder, Quinn Fitzgerald, both of whom identify as assault survivors, began Flare in response to a statistic: One in three women and one in four men have experienced sexual violence that involved physical contact during their lifetime, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.”