| Company type | Private |
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| Industry | Software |
| Founded | 1999 |
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| Headquarters | Israel |
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| Products | Messaging |
| Revenue | $6.1 million (2016) USD |
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Number of employees | 55 |
| Website | www |
TeleMessage is an Israeli software company based in Petah Tikva, Israel. Founded in 1999 by Guy Levit and Gil Shapira, it provides 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 US$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, Canadian mobile network operator Rogers Wireless selected TeleMessage SMS to Landline solution, powered by ScanSoft RealSpeak, for its TXT 2 Landline service. [5] American wireless network operator Verizon Wireless started using TeleMessage's SMS service to convert typed text messages into audio messages that play to a recipient's landline phone, launching this service in June 2006. [6] Rogers Communications and the American telco Sprint Nextel were 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]
On February 20, 2024, the firm was acquired by Smarsh. [13]
In May 2025, TeleMessage gained media attention after it was revealed that Mike Waltz, former U.S. National Security Advisor, was using a modified version of open source software Signal called "TM SGNL", created by TeleMessage to archive messages securely. Use predates the 2024 government; a federal contract starting in February 2023 has been found for 'TeleMessage mobile electronic message archiving'. [14] These discoveries highlighted the company's role in providing modified messaging applications for secure and compliant archival of governmental communications, raising discussions around security and record-keeping practices within high-ranking government circles.[ AI-generated? ] [15] It was later reported that TeleMessage had been hacked, and that chat logs archived by TeleMessage's modified Signal application are not end-to-end encrypted, either in transit to their archival storage location or once at rest. [16]
2020, Best Regtech Solution by Finovate Awards. [22]
One current contract that mentions TeleMessage allocated $2.1 million from the Department of Homeland Security and FEMA for 'TELEMESSAGE MOBILE ELECTRONIC MESSAGE ARCHIVING,' beginning in February 2023, with an August 2025 end date.
