| Company type | Private |
|---|---|
| Industry | Software |
| Founded | 1999 |
| Founder |
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| Headquarters | Israel |
Key people |
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| Products | Messaging |
| Revenue | $6.1 million (2016) USD |
| Owner |
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Number of employees | 55 |
| Website | telemessage |
TeleMessage is an Israeli software company based in Petach Tikva, Israel. Founded in 1999 by Guy Levit and Gil Shapira, it provides secure enterprise messaging, mobile communications archiving and high-volume text messaging services. [1]
TeleMessage was founded in 1999 in Tel Aviv, Israel raising more than 10 million dollars in its first 2 series of investment rounds. [2] After being acquired by Messaging International plc in August 2005, it then went public and was traded on the London Stock Exchange AIM section under the Messaging International name. [3]
It received conditional funding of up to USD 900,000 for a joint research and development project for "Secure Rich Communication Services Messaging" in 2015. The funding was provided by the Israel-US Binational Industrial Research and Development Foundation. [4]
In 2004, Rogers Wireless selected TeleMessage SMS to Landline solution, powered by ScanSoft RealSpeak, for its TXT 2 Landline service. [5] Verizon Wireless an American telecommunications company started using TeleMessage's SMS service to convert typed text messages into audio messages that play to a recipient's landline phone and the service was launched in June 2006. [6] Rogers Communications and the American telco Sprint Nextel are amongst others to launch the mail plugin. [7]
In 2013, five years after Comverse launched the TeleMessage PC2Mobile with a Tier-1 European operator, Sprint started selling the TeleMessage offering to allow doctors and clinicians to send HIPAA-compliant texts. [8] Delisted from the British stock exchange and privatized in 2017, it joined the G-Cloud public procurement framework and a financial compliance partner program managed by Verint Systems in the following years. [9]
In 2019, it along with Boku Identity and Deep Labs joined NICE Actimize’s X-Sight Marketplace [10] . In February 2020, Proofpoint, a Sunnyvale based enterprise security company partnered with TeleMessage to use their Mobile Archiver service for capturing text, voice and WhatsApp messages. [11] The company is also working with Microsoft in protecting and governing data that is arriving from other Microsoft 365 services. [12]
2020, Best Regtech Solution by Finovate Awards. [19]
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