It enables the user to remotely track their smartphone and secure any information stored on the device, if it gets lost or misplaced.

[3] The application can track a phone from any web browser through the TekTrak website as the location is checked at predetermined time intervals.

[7] TekTrak was founded by Arik Waldman, Luka Sklizovic, and Dan Russ during the summer of 2009 as part of their master's thesis at the UCLA Anderson School of Management.

TekTrak was one of the recipients of the Wolfen Award at UCLA Anderson, giving the team the initial capital to start developing a prototype.

[9] The initial application developed by TekTrak was for the iPhone, and two versions, one free and one paid, were released in 2010 and 2011.