TeleMessage

TeleMessage
Company typePrivate
IndustrySoftware
Founded1999; 26 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
Websitewww.telemessage.com Edit this at Wikidata

TeleMessage is an Israeli software company based in Petah 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

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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.[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]

Products

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  • 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.[17][18][19]
  • 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

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  • Mobile station (MS) message selection identification system[20]
  • Controller for use with communications systems for converting a voice message to a text message[21]

Awards

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2020, Best Regtech Solution by Finovate Awards.[22]

See also

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References

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  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. [dead link]
  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. ^ Nobel, Carmen (1 June 2006). "Verizon Wireless to Give SMS a Voice 628150". Light Reading.
  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. ^ Kevin Collier; Ben Goggin (2 May 2025). "Photo appears to show Mike Waltz using Signal-like app that can archive messages". NBC News. 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.
  15. ^ Cox, Joseph (1 May 2025). "Mike Waltz Accidentally Reveals Obscure App the Government Is Using to Archive Signal Messages". 404 Media. Retrieved 1 May 2025.
  16. ^ Cox, Joseph; Lee ·, Micah (4 May 2025). "The Signal Clone the Trump Admin Uses Was Hacked". 404 Media. Retrieved 5 May 2025.
  17. ^ "Overview: TeleMessage's Mobile Archiving Solution". www.infotech.com. 15 April 2020. Retrieved 23 September 2020.
  18. ^ "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.
  19. ^ Castañon, Raul (25 February 2020). "CafeX Communications, Proofpoint, TeleMessage, Staffbase: News Roundup for February". Medium. Retrieved 23 September 2020.
  20. ^ United States Patent: 7103348 - Mobile station (MS) message selection identification system
  21. ^ United States Patent: 7103348 - Mobile station (MS) message selection identification system
  22. ^ Ferst, Tyler (17 August 2020). "Finalists Announced for the Finovate Awards!". Finovate. Retrieved 23 September 2020.
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