What TeleMessage does

TeleMessage is an Israel-based messaging application company that creates modified versions of widely used encrypted messaging platforms, including Signal, WhatsApp, Telegram, and WeChat, which retain message content after decryption in order to enable archiving for compliance and record-keeping purposes. Its flagship product, TM SGNL, was an unofficial modified Signal client whose interface mimics Signal but is designed to satisfy federal record-keeping requirements by persisting otherwise ephemeral communications. The company operated as a wholly-owned subsidiary of Smarsh, a US-based digital communications governance and archiving platform, and was primarily focused on U.S. government customers, with documented deployment to senior administration officials including the former National Security Advisor and to federal agencies such as Customs and Border Protection.

The underlying technology is a forked, modified client of the open-source messaging applications, with the message retention happening after decryption on the endpoint, an architecture that inherently conflicts with the original applications' end-to-end encryption guarantees. The product was marketed and sold through direct enterprise field sales to government agencies, with revenue derived from subscription-based contracts negotiated on a per-agency basis; no public pricing was disclosed. The company is a small organization (11-50 employees) and does not appear to have disclosed financials, with revenue inferred only indirectly through its parent Smarsh's broader scale of 6,500+ customers globally.

In May 2025, TeleMessage suspended all services following two reported security breaches by separate hackers who claimed to have exfiltrated direct messages, contact information for government officials, and backend administrative credentials. Key customers, including CBP, disabled their deployments, and parent company Smarsh confirmed it is investigating the incident and is rebranding the mobile archiving product as Capture Mobile. Operationally, the business is currently in a suspended/restructuring state, with the strategic question being whether the Capture Mobile rebrand can restore customer trust and re-establish government compliance deployments.

Name

TeleMessage

Legal name

TeleMessage

Website

https://smarsh.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1999

Operating status

Closed

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

TeleMessage is an Israel-based messaging archiving company that builds modified Signal, WhatsApp, Telegram, and WeChat clients for U.S. government compliance, operating as a subsidiary of Smarsh. Services are currently suspended following May 2025 security breaches and the product is being rebranded as Capture Mobile.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Compliance Archiving Software

NAICS

Telecommunications (517)

SIC

Communications Services, Nec (4899), Services-Prepackaged Software (7372)

akta.pro primary industry

Voice Calling (VoIP) Apps (BPAMACAC)

Keywords

• Mobile messaging archiving
• Compliance software solutions
• Enterprise communication capture
• Regulatory archiving platform
• Secure messaging compliance

Headquarters

HQ city

Petah Tiqva

HQ country

Israel

HQ region

Middle East

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Operations, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Enterprise Government Contracts: Revenue generated from selling archiving solutions to government agencies and officials requiring compliance with record-keeping requirements for electronic communications.

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels1 record

Core offering

TeleMessage develops and sells mobile messaging and voice archiving software that captures, stores, and supervises communications across signal, WhatsApp, SMS, MMS, and voice channels for regulated enterprises and government agencies. Its solutions are designed to address regulatory compliance, e-discovery, and records-retention obligations. The company became a subsidiary of Smarsh following an acquisition completed in October 2024.

Product overview

TeleMessage is an Israel-based messaging archiving platform designed primarily for government compliance. The core product creates modified versions of popular encrypted messaging apps (Signal, WhatsApp, Telegram, and WeChat) that retain messages after decryption, enabling government agencies to archive communications for oversight purposes. The platform operates under the sub-brands TM SGNL and Capture Mobile (the latter being the rebranded name by parent company Smarsh). The product is built for government use cases, allowing officials like those in the Trump administration to use familiar messaging interfaces while maintaining compliance through message archiving.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• TM SGNL (Signal Archiving Tool) A modified Signal messaging application that captures and archives Signal communications for regulated enterprises and government agencies needing compliance-approved Signal use.
• TM Capture Mobile Mobile communication capture solution that records SMS, MMS, and messaging app communications from employees' mobile devices for compliance and archiving.
• TM CaptureLine A fixed-line voice capture product that records and archives enterprise voice communications for compliance, supervision, and records retention.
• TM CaptureVoice Mobile voice capture and archiving solution that records voice calls and audio communications from mobile devices for compliance and regulatory purposes.
• TeleMessage Mobile Archiver Cloud-based mobile messaging archiving solution that captures and stores SMS, MMS, WhatsApp, and other mobile communications for regulatory compliance and e-discovery.

Quantifiable outcome

• Successfully deployed to senior government officials including National Security Advisor

Named customers2 records

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature3 records

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• SmarshprimaryOEM/ Whitelabel/ Licensing Partner · 1 May 2025Smarsh is the parent company of TeleMessage. Following the May 2025 security breaches, Smarsh confirmed the suspension of TeleMessage services and stated it is investigating the potential security incident. Smarsh is rebranding TeleMessage as Capture Mobile.

Scale indicators2 records

Recent moves10 records

Expansion highlights3 records

Broad incumbents

• Mimecast: Email and communications archiving/security vendor with overlap in regulated-industry compliance use cases and government deployments.
• Proofpoint: Major compliance, archiving, and information governance vendor overlapping with TeleMessage in regulated communications capture, particularly for financial services and federal customers.
• Veritas Technologies (Enterprise Vault): Long-standing archiving and eDiscovery vendor competing for records-management and compliance retention budgets across enterprise and government customers.
• Smarsh: Parent company and primary distribution channel for TeleMessage/Capture Mobile. Smarsh is a Gartner-recognized digital communications governance and archiving platform serving 6,500+ customers, providing the broader enterprise context against which the TeleMessage mobile-archiving capability must be evaluated.
• Microsoft Purview (Compliance): Microsoft's compliance and archiving suite covering Teams, email, and third-party data sources. A broad incumbent that competes for the same communications-governance budgets and is increasingly adding mobile-messaging capture.

Direct peers

• Movius: Provider of compliant mobile communications and recording solutions for regulated industries and government, addressing the same ephemeral-messaging compliance niche as TeleMessage.
• Global Relay: Direct competitor in regulated communications archiving, offering capture, retention, and surveillance across email, IM, voice, and mobile messaging for financial services and government. Most comparable standalone peer for archival compliance workflows.
• Smarsh Capture (Mobile): Smarsh's own mobile-archiving product line, which Capture Mobile (the rebranded TeleMessage) is being folded into. The closest forward-looking peer given the announced rebrand and integration.
• CellTrust: Specializes in compliant mobile messaging, archiving, and eDiscovery for financial services and government; directly comparable niche and customer base to TeleMessage.
• Actiance (now part of Proofpoint): Historical direct competitor in compliance archiving of IM, email, and social communications; comparable in product scope and target customers to TeleMessage prior to the Proofpoint acquisition.

Market position

Strengths3 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights4 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/SmarshInc

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles3 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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