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
Company typePrivate
IndustrySoftware
Founded1999; 25 years ago (1999)
Founder
  • Guy Levit
  • Gil Shapira
HeadquartersIsrael
Key people
  • Guy Levit
  • (CEO)
  • Horacio Furman
  • (Chairman)
ProductsMessaging
Revenue$6.1 million (2016) USD
Owner
  • Independent (1999–2005)
  • Messaging International plc (2005–24)
  • Smarsh (2024–present)
Number of employees
55
Websitetelemessage.com

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 edit

References edit

  1. ^ Castañon, Raul (25 February 2020). "CafeX Communications, Proofpoint, TeleMessage, Staffbase: News Roundup for February". Medium. Retrieved 19 September 2020.
  2. ^ צוקר, דפנה (25 June 2000). "Globes Article". Globes.
  3. ^ "Messaging International PLC acquires Telemessage". Interactive Investor - August 2005.
  4. ^ "Messaging International Gets Up To USD900,000 In Funding". MorningstarUK. Retrieved 22 July 2014.
  5. ^ "Rogers Wireless Selects ScanSoft and TeleMessage to Power TXT 2 Landline Service". Speech Technology Magazine. 1 January 2005. Retrieved 28 September 2020.
  6. ^ 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)
  7. ^ "Text Messaging Comes to Landlines". PCWorld. 14 August 2008. Retrieved 1 October 2020.
  8. ^ "Sprint Launches Secure Messaging Platforms for Health Care". eWEEK. 28 June 2013. Retrieved 2 October 2020.
  9. ^ Gyarmati, Gyorgy (15 June 2020). "TeleMessage Joins Verint's Financial Compliance Partner Program". Retrieved 23 September 2020.
  10. ^ "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.
  11. ^ Castañon, Raul (25 February 2020). "CafeX Communications, Proofpoint, TeleMessage, Staffbase: News Roundup for February". Medium. Retrieved 1 October 2020.
  12. ^ "Microsoft 365 gets next generation Compliance Manager and more". Neowin. Retrieved 1 October 2020.
  13. ^ "Smarsh Completes Acquisition of TeleMessage, Extends Communications Compliance Leadership". Smarsh. Retrieved 29 February 2024.
  14. ^ "Overview: TeleMessage's Mobile Archiving Solution". www.infotech.com. 15 April 2020. Retrieved 23 September 2020.
  15. ^ "Boku Identity, Deep Labs, and TeleMessage Join NICE Actimize's X-Sight Marketplace, the Industry's First Financial Crime Management Ecosystem". Picante Today. Retrieved 23 September 2020.
  16. ^ Castañon, Raul (25 February 2020). "CafeX Communications, Proofpoint, TeleMessage, Staffbase: News Roundup for February". Medium. Retrieved 23 September 2020.
  17. ^ United States Patent: 7103348 - Mobile station (MS) message selection identification system
  18. ^ United States Patent: 7103348 - Mobile station (MS) message selection identification system
  19. ^ Ferst, Tyler (17 August 2020). "Finalists Announced for the Finovate Awards!". Finovate. Retrieved 23 September 2020.

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