The company employs more than 12,000 people in the US, holds more than 400 patents, and performs approximately 500,000 professional installations or upgrades annually.

[3] In 1999, Keith Nellesen and Todd Pedersen co-founded APX Alarm Security Solutions in Lehi, Utah.

[11][12] Vivint's former CEO Todd Pedersen appeared on the CBS television show Undercover Boss in February 2015.

[18] In January 2020, Vivint completed a merger with Mosaic Acquisition Corp. and became a publicly traded company on the New York Stock Exchange.

[20] In 2023, under the Vivint Gives Back program the company's employees packed and delivered 40,000 meal kits in cooperation with the Granite Education Foundation for children.

[36][37] In May 2021, Vivint was fined $20 million for violations of the Fair Credit Reporting Act under Federal Trade Commission Act of 1914 when sales representatives used the names and identities of people without their consent in the place of customers who failed credit checks.