TeleMessage
| Company type | Private |
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| 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 |
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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]
History
[edit]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]
On February 20, 2024, the firm was acquired by Smarsh.[13]
Products
[edit]- Mobile Archiver - addresses mobile phone text and call archiving for compliance, regulatory and eDiscovery response requirements. It reduces risk across a variety of industries, capturing mobile content from BYOD and corporate phones; Enabling the captures and archive of: SMS, MMS, Voice calls, as well as WhatsApp and WeChat chats and calls.[14][15][16]
- Secure Enterprise Messaging - enables secure enterprise chat for co-workers by using user-friendly mobile apps and a range of APIs that connect to any operational IT system.
- Mass Messaging - provides tools to deliver multi and omnichannel bulk messaging across: SMS, MMS, Voice calls, Faxes, Email, and Mobile Apps.
Patents
[edit]- Mobile station (MS) message selection identification system[17]
- Controller for use with communications systems for converting a voice message to a text message[18]
Awards
[edit]2020, Best Regtech Solution by Finovate Awards.[19]
See also
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References
[edit]- ^ Castañon, Raul (25 February 2020). "CafeX Communications, Proofpoint, TeleMessage, Staffbase: News Roundup for February". Medium. Retrieved 19 September 2020.
- ^ צוקר, דפנה (25 June 2000). "Globes Article". Globes.
- ^ "Messaging International PLC acquires Telemessage". Interactive Investor - August 2005.
- ^ "Messaging International Gets Up To USD900,000 In Funding". MorningstarUK. Retrieved 22 July 2014.
- ^ "Rogers Wireless Selects ScanSoft and TeleMessage to Power TXT 2 Landline Service". Speech Technology Magazine. 1 January 2005. Retrieved 28 September 2020.
- ^ Reading 6/1/2006, LR Mobile News Analysis Light. "Verizon Wireless to Give SMS a Voice". Light Reading. Retrieved 1 October 2020.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) - ^ "Text Messaging Comes to Landlines". PCWorld. 14 August 2008. Retrieved 1 October 2020.
- ^ "Sprint Launches Secure Messaging Platforms for Health Care". eWEEK. 28 June 2013. Retrieved 2 October 2020.
- ^ Gyarmati, Gyorgy (15 June 2020). "TeleMessage Joins Verint's Financial Compliance Partner Program". Retrieved 23 September 2020.
- ^ "Boku Identity, Deep Labs, and TeleMessage Join NICE Actimize's X-Sight Marketplace, the Industry's First Financial Crime Management Ecosystem". NICE Systems. Retrieved 1 October 2020.
- ^ Castañon, Raul (25 February 2020). "CafeX Communications, Proofpoint, TeleMessage, Staffbase: News Roundup for February". Medium. Retrieved 1 October 2020.
- ^ "Microsoft 365 gets next generation Compliance Manager and more". Neowin. Retrieved 1 October 2020.
- ^ "Smarsh Completes Acquisition of TeleMessage, Extends Communications Compliance Leadership". Smarsh. Retrieved 29 February 2024.
- ^ "Overview: TeleMessage's Mobile Archiving Solution". www.infotech.com. 15 April 2020. Retrieved 23 September 2020.
- ^ "Boku Identity, Deep Labs, and TeleMessage Join NICE Actimize's X-Sight Marketplace, the Industry's First Financial Crime Management Ecosystem". Picante Today. 4 November 2019. Retrieved 23 September 2020.
- ^ Castañon, Raul (25 February 2020). "CafeX Communications, Proofpoint, TeleMessage, Staffbase: News Roundup for February". Medium. Retrieved 23 September 2020.
- ^ United States Patent: 7103348 - Mobile station (MS) message selection identification system
- ^ United States Patent: 7103348 - Mobile station (MS) message selection identification system
- ^ Ferst, Tyler (17 August 2020). "Finalists Announced for the Finovate Awards!". Finovate. Retrieved 23 September 2020.