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Springfield Native's Company Scores Big on Shark Tank

A Springfield native swims with the sharks on ABC and walks away with a boost to his company. 
 
Springfield High Grad Adam Havey's company was successful in getting an investment from Barbara Corcoran on Shark Tank to help boost his Guard Llama personal security app and device. It allows a user to contact police without having to call 911. 
 
Havey and his co-founder partner were hoping to get 100-thousand dollars in exchange for a 5 percent stake in the company, but Corcoran gave Guard Llama a 100-thousand dollar loan in exchange for an 18 percent stake in the company. 
 
Havey did not appear on the episode. 
 
Corcoran saw potential in the product with her work in real estate, an area where workers often are concerned about personal safety. Havey explains that the mass shooting at Northern Illinois University in 2008 and a brutal kidnapping, rape and murder of a woman near campus two years later during his time at NIU inspired his invention.
 
 
Havey says the fledgling company is taking in about 500-thousand dollars a year in revenue and selling about 100 units a week. 

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