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. Founded in 1999 by Guy Levit and Gil Shapira, it provides enterprise messaging, mobile communications archiving and high-volume text messaging services.

History

TeleMessage was founded in 1999 in

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raising more than 10 million dollars in its first 2 series of investment rounds. After being acquired by Messaging International plc in August 2005, it then went public and was traded on the

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AIM section under the ''Messaging International'' name. It received conditional funding of up to

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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. In 2004, Canadian mobile network operator

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selected TeleMessage SMS to Landline solution, powered by ScanSoft RealSpeak, for its TXT 2 Landline service. American wireless network operator

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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. Rogers Communications and the American telco

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were amongst others to launch the mail plugin. 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

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-compliant texts. 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. In 2019, it along with Boku Identity and Deep Labs joined NICE Actimize's X-Sight Marketplace. In February 2020, Proofpoint, a

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based enterprise security company partnered with TeleMessage to use their Mobile Archiver service for capturing text, voice and

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messages. The company is also working with

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in protecting and governing data that is arriving from other

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services. On February 20, 2024, the firm was acquired by

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. 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

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software

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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'. 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. 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.

Products

* 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. * 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

* Mobile station (MS) message selection identification system * Controller for use with communications systems for converting a voice message to a text message

Awards

2020, Best Regtech Solution by Finovate Awards.

References

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