WatchDox

WatchDox LTD (originally called Confidela)[1] is a secure collaboration company which was founded by Noam Livnat and Moti Rafalin in 2008. WatchDox developed the first end-to-end DRM (Digital Rights Management) File Sync and Share platform. Its main investors included Shlomo Kramer, Shasta Ventures, Gemini Israel Ventures, Blackstone[2] and Millenium Technology Partners ([3]).

In 2012 WatchDox acquired InstallFree[4] as part of its strategy to provide a full suite of secure collaboration capabilities. The company grew to about 100 employees, and over 300 top enterprise customers, including Coca-Cola, Nike, Disney, Chevron, Zurich Insurance, KPMG, Bloomberg, Corning, Sony [5] Comerica, Blackstone,[6] TPG, MLB and others. Gartner consistently rated WatchDox as a visionary product [7] in the EFSS (Enterprise File Sync and Share) market and in 2017 named it the best product of its kind in the "workforce productivity" and "protection" categories.[8]

WatchDox grew to about $15 million in annual recurring revenue before it was acquired by BlackBerry Limited in April 2015.[9][10] BlackBerry renamed the WatchDox product to BlackBerry Workspaces.[11] WatchDox was headquartered in Palo Alto, CA and its R&D center was located in Petah Tikva, Israel. After its acquisition by BlackBerry, WatchDox R&D center became BlackBerry's Israel R&D center (John Chen, BlackBerry's CEO, visited the WatchDox employees and the Israeli PM after the acquisition). [12]

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