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Formerly | Confidela |
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Industry | Software |
Founded | 2008 |
Founder | Noam Livnat, Moti Rafalin |
Fate | Acquired by BlackBerry Limited |
Headquarters | Palo Alto, CA , United States |
Area served | Worldwide |
Products | Secure collaboration platform DRM File Sync and Share |
Revenue | $15 million (annual recurring revenue before acquisition) |
Number of employees | 100 |
Parent | BlackBerry Limited (since April 2015) |
WatchDox LTD (originally called Confidela) [1] [ non-primary source needed ] is a secure collaboration company which was founded by Noam Livnat and Moti Rafalin in 2008. WatchDox developed the first end-to-end DRM (Digital Rights Management) File Sync and Share platform.
In 2012 WatchDox acquired InstallFree [2] [ non-primary source needed ] as part of its strategy to provide a full suite of secure collaboration capabilities. The company grew to about 100 employees, and over 300 top enterprise customers, including Coca-Cola, Nike, Disney, Chevron, Zurich Insurance, KPMG, Bloomberg, Corning, Sony [3] Comerica, Blackstone, [4] [ non-primary source needed ] TPG, MLB and others. Gartner consistently rated WatchDox as a visionary product [5] [ non-primary source needed ] in the EFSS (Enterprise File Sync and Share) market and in 2017 named it the best product of its kind in the "workforce productivity" and "protection" categories. [6] [ non-primary source needed ]
WatchDox grew to about $15 million in annual recurring revenue before it was acquired by BlackBerry Limited in April 2015. [7] [ non-primary source needed ] [8] BlackBerry renamed the WatchDox product to BlackBerry Workspaces. [9] [ non-primary source needed ]
WatchDox was headquartered in Palo Alto, CA and its R&D center was located in Petah Tikva, Israel. After its acquisition by BlackBerry, WatchDox R&D center became BlackBerry's Israel R&D center (John Chen, BlackBerry's CEO, visited the WatchDox employees and the Israeli PM after the acquisition). [10]
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