Yondr

Yondr
Founded2014
FoundersGraham Dugoni[1]
Headquarters
Los Angeles, California
,
United States
ProductsYondr Pouch
Websitewww.overyondr.com

Yondr is an American company founded by Graham Dugoni in 2014.[2][3][4] Yondr sells its products to households and leases them to schools, courthouses, and venues around the world.[5][6][7][8]

Yondr's core product is the Yondr Pouch, a magnetic pouch in which a person's cell phone may remain in their possession but unusable within a designated area (such as a school, performance venue, meeting room, etc.). One purpose is to prevent cell-phone photography or recording (surreptitious or not) in the designated area. Another is to prevent distractions. Another, more specifically for schools, is to prevent students from using their cell phones at all while in school during school hours, a variety of benefits being claimed for this. The company has since spread to 27 countries and has offices in London and Dublin.

The company has since established its own outdoor music festival, which was held in 2023 in Greenville, New York.[9]

  1. ^ Statt, Nick (4 November 2014). "Phone-crazed audiences and fed-up musicians? Yondr is on the case". CNET. Accessed 30 May 2022.
  2. ^ Edgers, Geoff (16 June 2016). "Alicia Keys is done playing nice. Your phone is getting locked up at her shows now". The Washington Post. Retrieved 25 January 2017.
  3. ^ Megan Geuss (12 October 2014). "I let Yondr lock my smartphone in a sock so I could “live in the moment”". Ars Technica. Accessed 25 January 2018.
  4. ^ US patent 9819788, Graham Dugoni, "System and apparatus for selectively limiting user control of an electronic device", issued 2017-11-14 
  5. ^ Russon, Mary-Ann (4 December 2015). "Dave Chappelle using smartphone-locking case to stop audiences leaking stand-up routines online". International Business Times. Accessed 25 January 2018.
  6. ^ "Yondr Pouch by Yondr (Focally, LLC)". EdSurge. Accessed 25 January 2018.
  7. ^ Smith, Tovia (11 January 2018). "A School's Way To Fight Phones In Class: Lock 'Em Up". All Things Considered. Accessed 30 May 2022.
  8. ^ Slater, Joanna (2024-05-01). "How a Connecticut middle school won the battle against cellphones". Washington Post.
  9. ^ https://musictech.com/news/events/yondr-announces-phone-free-festival-in-ny-for-second-year-in-a-row-over-yondr/