WatchDox

WatchDox LTDFormerly| Confidela

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Industry| Software
Fate| Acquired by BlackBerry Limited
Founded| 2008 (2008)
Founder| Noam Livnat, Moti Rafalin
Headquarters|

Palo Alto, California

United States

Area served

| Worldwide
Products| Secure collaboration platform
DRM File Sync and Share
Revenue| $15 million (annual recurring revenue before acquisition)

Number of employees

| 100
Parent| BlackBerry Limited (since April 2015)

WatchDox LTD (originally called Confidela)[1][non-primary source needed] 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.

In 2012 WatchDox acquired InstallFree[2][non-primary source needed] 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 [3] Comerica, Blackstone,[4][non-primary source needed] TPG, MLB and others. Gartner consistently rated WatchDox as a visionary product [5][non-primary source needed] 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.[6][non-primary source needed]

WatchDox grew to about $15 million in annual recurring revenue before it was acquired by BlackBerry Limited in April 2015.[7][non-primary source needed][8] BlackBerry renamed the WatchDox product to BlackBerry Workspaces.[9][non-primary source needed]

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).[10]

## References

1. ↑ "Confidela Releases WatchDox Version 2.2 to Support Growing Customer Needs for Secure Document Sharing". http://www.marketwired.com/press-release/confidela-releases-watchdox-version-22-support-growing-customer-needs-secure-document-1273435.htm.
2. ↑ "WatchDox Acquires InstallFree to Provide Secure Document Viewing, Editing on Any Platform". 11 December 2012. http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20121211005838/en/WatchDox-Acquires-InstallFree-Provide-Secure-Document-Viewing.
3. ↑ Perlroth, Nicole (29 March 2015). "Secrecy on the Set: Hollywood Embraces Digital Security". https://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/30/technology/secrecy-on-the-set-hollywood-embraces-digital-security.html.
4. ↑ "Blackstone Implements WatchDox to Facilitate Secure File Sharing, Invests in Company". 8 March 2012. http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20120308005664/en/Blackstone-Implements-WatchDox-Facilitate-Secure-File-Sharing.
5. ↑ "Gartner EFSS Magic Quadrant Recognizes WatchDox by BlackBerry as a 'Visionary'". http://blogs.blackberry.com/2015/07/gartner-efss-magic-quadrant-recognizes-watchdox-by-blackberry-as-a-visionary/.
6. ↑ "Gartner Reprint". https://www.gartner.com/doc/reprints?id=1-4DNVMH8&ct=170913&st=sb.
7. ↑ "BlackBerry Acquiring WatchDox to Bolster Mobile Content Security and Enterprise Collaboration". http://www.marketwired.com/press-release/blackberry-acquiring-watchdox-bolster-mobile-content-security-enterprise-collaboration-nasdaq-bbry-2011749.htm.
8. ↑ Lunden, Ingrid (21 April 2015). "Confirmed: BlackBerry Is Buying File Security And DRM Startup WatchDox for up to $150M". https://techcrunch.com/2015/04/21/blackberry-watchdox/.
9. ↑ "EFSS, Doc Security, File Share – BlackBerry Workspaces (WatchDox)". https://us.blackberry.com/enterprise/blackberry-workspaces.
10. ↑ "Archived copy". http://www.pmo.gov.il/English/MediaCenter/Events/Pages/eventBlack080915.aspx.

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