Tyntec (or , as spelled by the company) is a global application-to-person messaging operator,

cloud communications Cloud communications are Internet-based voice and data communications where telecommunications applications, switching and storage are hosted by a third-party outside of the organization using them, and they are accessed over the public Internet. C ...

provider, and a US Inter-Carrier Vendor incorporated in

London London is the capital and largest city of England and the United Kingdom, with a population of just under 9 million. It stands on the River Thames in south-east England at the head of a estuary down to the North Sea, and has been a majo ...

, UK.

History

Tyntec was founded by entrepreneurs Dr. Ralph Eric Kunz and Thorsten Trapp in 2002. In 2017, it has regrouped its regional operations, Tyntec Limited in the UK, Tyntec GmbH in Germany, Tyntec Inc. in the US, and Tyntec Pte Ltd in Singapore, under a new holding company, the Tyntec Group Limited, based in London.

Funding

In June 2008, founders sold a minority share of the company to

HarbourVest HarbourVest Partners is a private equity fund of funds and one of the largest private equity investment managers globally. The firm invests in all types of private equity funds, including venture capital and leveraged buyout funds, and also dire ...

, an independent global alternative investment firm. In December 2010, received investment from

Iris Capital Iris Capital is a venture capital firm, specialized in the digital economy, primarily active in Europe. Since its creation, the Iris Capital team has invested more than a billion Euros in over 230 innovative companies. Iris Capital is sponsored ...

, a pan-European growth fund specializing in technology, media and telecommunications. In 2016, the management of tyntec has acquired the company from HarbourVest Partners and Iris Capital, backed by Cipio Partners, a Germany-based private equity firm.

Technology

has built and developed a scalable proprietary patent-protected technology infrastructure that is installed at the operator level, which gives it direct operator-level connectivity to the GSM network. The signal routing and delivery platform, housed in the technical operations center in Dortmund, is the core of 's messaging platform. It is designed to be scalable and to handle high volumes of traffic without service degradation. It also provides several interfaces, which are available across all networks. 's direct access into the global mobile network through its agreements with operators means that the company can directly reach the subscribers' handset. This is particularly important in crisis situations when networks are often overloaded or go down.

Awards

In 2010, was awarded the

Red Herring A red herring is a figurative expression referring to a logical fallacy in which a clue or piece of information is or is intended to be misleading, or distracting from the actual question. Red herring may also refer to: Animals * Red herring (fis ...

100 Europe Award. In 2011 it was awarded the Red Herring Global 100 Award for its solution. In the same year it also won the Internet Telephony Product of the Year Award.tyntec Awards
Awards 2010 and 2011

Competitors

Competitors are Sinch, Soprano Design,

Twilio Twilio () is an American company based in San Francisco, California, which provides programmable communication tools for making and receiving phone calls, sending and receiving text messages, and performing other communication functions using it ...

Infobip Infobip provides full-stack communications platform-as-a-service with a global reach across six continents. Services include omnichannel communications, contact center, chatbot, customer engagement and customer data platforms as well as identity ...

Vonage Vonage (, legal name Vonage Holdings Corp.) is an American cloud communications provider operating as a subsidiary of Ericsson. Headquartered in Holmdel Township, New Jersey, the organization was founded in 1998 as ''Min-X'' as a provider of resi ...

(Nexmo), Clickatell, and BICS ( TeleSign).

External links

* {{official website, http://www.tyntec.com/

References

Mobile telecommunication services