Wire has since pivoted into enterprise and Brøgger was brought in two years ago to steer the platform to the “consumerisation of enterprise communication and collaboration”. It was a great application, Brøgger says, but had “literally zero revenue”. Funded mostly by Skype cofounder Janus Friis, Wire never seemed to gain the same traction on the consumer side as other secure messaging apps like Telegram and Signal.

Launched in 2012 by Alan Duric and Jonathan Christensen, an alumnus of the internet telecommunications tool Skype, Wire was originally a consumer app.ĭuric is still the company’s joint chief technology officer and chief operating officer in Switzerland. “Security and privacy, in our mind, are two sides of the same coin,” he says. “There’s no one on the market who does it as well as we do.” That’s where we’re the best,” Brøgger says, boasting how big corporate clients such as EY, Intel and Philips are among the 700 enterprise clients using the platform. “Where we’re really trying to disrupt is make that type of communication secure. Wire says its daily active users are in the hundreds of thousands. The Switzerland-based company, which closed an $8.2m Series A funding round earlier this year (the first it has ever disclosed) from US investor Morpheus Ventures, says its unique selling point is its focus on security, at a time when this a growing concern for companies worldwide. Yet, Wire still wants to have skin in the game.

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