Zemingo Group is a mobile technology company that operates in the field of
Internet of Things
The Internet of things (IoT) describes physical objects (or groups of such objects) with sensors, processing ability, software and other technologies that connect and exchange data with other devices and systems over the Internet or other comm ...
(IoT), providing design, development and analytics services for enterprises that wish to turn their physical products into connected devices.
Zemingo Group is the largest mobile service house in Israel, based in
Herzliya with offices in
New York City.
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David Shamah (January 16, 2015)]
"Second-rate mobile apps abound, says Israeli expert"
Times of Israel.
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"Israeli mobile app maker Zemingo on the hunt for acquisitions"
Haaretz
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Globes.
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"Women in the High tech"
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History
Zemingo was founded in 2008 by Maya Zalcberg and Tsiki Naftaly. It started out as an engineering company focused on
mobile applications development.
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Liat Ron (December 12, 2014)]
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In 2011 Zvi Frank joined the company. Frank co-founded Interwise, a
web conferencing company that was sold to
AT&T for 121 million dollars in 2007. Frank also produced the
Emmy
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winning documentary "Google Baby".
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Assaf Gilad (November 3, 2014)]
"Applications, baby: 'millions of applications aren't going anywhere'"
Calcalist.
Zemingo founded two subsidiary companies; the first is PandaPepper that provides analytics and marketing services for digital products.
The second is Falcore, a development company.
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Amit Kotler (July 23, 2015)]
"Changing reality: translating glasses"
Ynet.
In 2014 Zemingo acquired 9Design, a New York-based design studio, for 2.5 million dollars, rebranding it as Yellowtale. Among Yellowtale's customers are Clear Channel,
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and
Eurocom.
Most of Zemingo's customers are located in the US and Europe, among them are
FLIR Systems,
Securitas Direct
Verisure, formerly known as Securitas Direct is a security company based in Versoix, close to Geneva in Switzerland and active in 17 countries in Europe and South America. Hellman & Friedman is currently the main shareholder in the group.
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HP,
Zero Motorcycles
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, and Fiverr. In Israel Zemingo provides mobile products design, development, marketing and analytics services for companies such as Viaaccess-Orca, Amdocs, and
Kaltura.
Zemingo co-founded several
startups, such as Boatbook (seamanship apps for yachts) and ForteeTwo (a platform for rapid development of mobile games).
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Ido Solomon (November 5, 2015)]
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Main news broadcasting program at Channel 2 (Israel)
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Zemingo group acquired "Sergata Mobile" in June 2016.
"Sergata Mobile", now part of Zemingo Group development arm (Falcore), is a mobile app development company with an IoT portfolio, including companies such as:
Verifone, Essence Security, HeraMed, FST
Tsiki Naftaly, Zemingo's
CEO
A chief executive officer (CEO), also known as a central executive officer (CEO), chief administrator officer (CAO) or just chief executive (CE), is one of a number of corporate executives charged with the management of an organization especially ...
, says that the company's annual revenue is tens of millions of dollars.
The company employs approximately 120 people.
Among Zemingo's competitors are the American companies MentorMate and Fueled, and the British company Golden Gekko.
Products
Zemingo developed and manages the mobile products for three major security companies:
FLIR Systems,
Securitas Direct
Verisure, formerly known as Securitas Direct is a security company based in Versoix, close to Geneva in Switzerland and active in 17 countries in Europe and South America. Hellman & Friedman is currently the main shareholder in the group.
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and Gulfstream. Securitas Direct hired Zemingo to develop apps aimed to assist sales representatives in analyzing and improving sales.
FLIR Systems hired Zemingo to develop home security mobile and web apps.
In 2011, Zemingo developed "Traffic Observer", a hit mobile application that records and reports offensive driving for Israel's National Road Safety Committee.
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Arieh O'sullivan (February 21, 2011)]
"Israeli iPhone app reports ‘bad drivers’"
Jerusalem Post
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In the
wearable computing field, Zemingo developed an
augmented reality
Augmented reality (AR) is an interactive experience that combines the real world and computer-generated content. The content can span multiple sensory modalities, including visual, auditory, haptic, somatosensory and olfactory. AR can be de ...
solution for Fieldbit, as well as an Interface for Imagine
Smartglasses company.
See also
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Economy of Israel
The economy of Israel is a developed free-market economy. The prosperity of Israel's advanced economy allows the country to have a sophisticated welfare state, a powerful modern military said to possess a nuclear-weapons capability, modern inf ...
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Start-up Nation
''Start-up Nation: The Story of Israel's Economic Miracle'' is a 2009 book by Dan Senor and Saul Singer about the economy of Israel. It examines how Israel, a 60-year-old nation with a population of 7.1 million, was able to reach such economi ...
References
External links
Official WebsiteApp Development CompanyZemingo CEO Tsiki Naftaly InterviewPandaPepper WebsiteYellowtale Website
Software companies of Israel
2008 establishments in Israel
Mobile software development