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TeleMessage is an Israeli software company based in Petah Tikva, Israel. Founded in 1999 by Guy Levit and Gil Shapira, it provides enterprise messaging, mobile communications archiving and high-volume text messaging services.cite-ref-1[1]

Contents

• History

• Products

• Patents

• Awards

• See also

• References

• External links

History

TeleMessage was founded in 1999 in Tel Aviv, Israel raising more than 10 million dollars in its first 2 series of investment rounds.cite-ref-2[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.cite-ref-gerber1982-3-0[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.cite-ref-4[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.cite-ref-5[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.cite-ref-6[6] Rogers Communications and the American telco Sprint Nextel were amongst others to launch the mail plugin.cite-ref-7[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.cite-ref-8[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.cite-ref-9[9]

In 2019, it along with Boku Identity and Deep Labs joined NICE Actimize's X-Sight Marketplace.cite-ref-10[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.cite-ref-11[11] The company is also working with Microsoft in protecting and governing data that is arriving from other Microsoft 365 services.cite-ref-12[12]

On February 20, 2024, the firm was acquired by Smarsh.cite-ref-13[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'.cite-ref-14[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.cite-ref-15[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.cite-ref-16[16]

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.cite-ref-17[17]cite-ref-18[18]cite-ref-19[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

• Mobile station (MS) message selection identification systemcite-ref-20[20]

• Controller for use with communications systems for converting a voice message to a text messagecite-ref-21[21]

Awards

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