Zemingo Group is a mobile technology company that operates in the field of Internet of Things (IoT), providing design, development and analytics services for enterprises that wish to turn their physical products into connected devices.
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| Type of business | Privately owned |
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| Founded | Herzliya Pituah, Israel (2008) |
| Headquarters | 10 Hasadna'ot St. Herzliya, Israel |
| Area served | Worldwide |
| Key people | Zvi Frank, Executive chairman Tsiki Naftaly, CEO and Co-Founder Maya Zalcberg, R&D Director and Co-Founder |
| Industry | Mobile Technology |
| Services | Mobile Application Design, Development and Marketing |
| Employees | 100–120 |
| URL | www.zemingo.com |
| Launched | 2008 |
| Current status | Active |
Zemingo Group is the largest mobile service house in Israel, based in Herzliya with offices in New York City.[1][2][3][4][5]
History
editZemingo was founded in 2008 by Maya Zalcberg and Tsiki Naftaly. It started out as an engineering company focused on mobile applications development.[4][6]
In 2011 Zvi Frank joined the company. Frank co-founded Interwise, a web conferencing company that was sold to AT&T for 121 million dollars in 2007. Frank also produced the Emmy winning documentary "Google Baby".[1][3][6][7]
Zemingo founded two subsidiary companies; the first is PandaPepper that provides analytics and marketing services for digital products.[4] The second is Falcore, a development company.[8]
In 2014 Zemingo acquired 9Design, a New York-based design studio, for 2.5 million dollars, rebranding it as Yellowtale. Among Yellowtale's customers are Clear Channel, Stanley Tools and Eurocom.[1][2][3][9]
Most of Zemingo's customers are located in the US and Europe, among them are FLIR Systems, Securitas Direct, HP, Zero Motorcycles, and Fiverr. In Israel Zemingo provides mobile products design, development, marketing and analytics services for companies such as Viaaccess-Orca, Amdocs, and Kaltura.
Zemingo co-founded several startups, such as Boatbook (seamanship apps for yachts) and ForteeTwo (a platform for rapid development of mobile games).[1][4][10]
Zemingo group acquired "Sergata Mobile" in June 2016. "Sergata Mobile", now part of Zemingo Group development arm (Falcore), is a mobile app development company with an IoT portfolio, including companies such as: Verifone, Essence Security, HeraMed, FST [11]
Tsiki Naftaly, Zemingo's CEO, says that the company's annual revenue is tens of millions of dollars.[1][3] The company employs approximately 120 people.[5]
Among Zemingo's competitors are the American companies MentorMate and Fueled, and the British company Golden Gekko.[1][3]
Products
editZemingo developed and manages the mobile products for three major security companies: FLIR Systems, Securitas Direct and Gulfstream. Securitas Direct hired Zemingo to develop apps aimed to assist sales representatives in analyzing and improving sales.[1][2][3][4]
FLIR Systems hired Zemingo to develop home security mobile and web apps.[7]
In 2011, Zemingo developed "Traffic Observer", a hit mobile application that records and reports offensive driving for Israel's National Road Safety Committee.[12]
In the wearable computing field, Zemingo developed an augmented reality solution for Fieldbit, as well as an Interface for Imagine Smartglasses company.[8][10]
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ a b c d e f g Steven Scheer and David Goodman (April 16, 2015). "Israeli app developer Zemingo on acquisition trail". Reuters
- ^ a b c David Shamah (January 16, 2015). "Second-rate mobile apps abound, says Israeli expert". Times of Israel.
- ^ a b c d e f (April 16, 2015). "Israeli mobile app maker Zemingo on the hunt for acquisitions". Haaretz.
- ^ a b c d e Billie Besserglik (April 1, 2015). "Only 32 - and owns a millions dollars application developer company" Archived April 16, 2016, at the Wayback Machine. Globes.
- ^ a b Yossi Levi (March 8, 2016). "Women in the High tech" Archived April 8, 2016, at the Wayback Machine. Nana 10.
- ^ a b Liat Ron (December 12, 2014). "Maya Zalcberg: Zemingo's group founder" Archived April 16, 2016, at the Wayback Machine. Globes.
- ^ a b Assaf Gilad (November 3, 2014). "Applications, baby: 'millions of applications aren't going anywhere'". Calcalist.
- ^ a b Amit Kotler (July 23, 2015). "Changing reality: translating glasses". Ynet.
- ^ Rafi Kahan (November 6, 2014). "Zemingo bought an American design an UX company for 2.5 million dollars". Calcalist.
- ^ a b Ido Solomon (November 5, 2015). "Application developer". Main news broadcasting program at Channel 2 (Israel).
- ^ (June 2, 2016). "Mobile app developer Zemingo buys Sergata Mobile". Globes.
- ^ Arieh O'sullivan (February 21, 2011). "Israeli iPhone app reports ‘bad drivers’". Jerusalem Post.