TeleMessage

TeleMessage is an Israeli software company based in Petach Tikva, Israel. The company was founded in 1999 by Guy Levit and Gil Shapira. It provides secure enterprise messaging, mobile communications archiving and high-volume text messaging services. History TeleMessage was founded in 1999 in Tel Aviv, Israel raising more than 10 million dollars in its first 2 series of investment rounds. In August 2005, Messaging International PLC acquired TeleMessage. The company then went public and was traded on the London Stock Exchange AIM section under the Messaging International name. The company received conditional funding of up to USD 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 August 2016, the company delisted from the London Stock Exchange and privatized. In 2017 the company joined the G-Cloud public procurement framework and in June 2020 they joined the financial compliance partner program managed by Verint Systems Inc. (Nasdaq: VRNT) in June 2020. In 2004, Rogers Wireless selected TeleMessage SMS to Landline solution, powered by ScanSoft RealSpeak, for its TXT 2 Landline service. Verizon Wireless an American telecommunications company started using TeleMessage's SMS service to convert typed text messages into audio messages that play to a recipient's landline phone and the service was launched in June 2006. Rogers Communications and the American telco Sprint Nextel are amongst others to launch the mail plugin. In 2008, Comverse launched the TeleMessage PC2Mobile with a Tier-1 European operator. In 2013, Sprint started selling the TeleMessage offering to allow doctors and clinicians to send HIPAA-compliant texts.