Founded in 1999, Cellebrite is a leading digital intelligence company based in Petah Tikva, Israel. The founders of the company are Avi Yablonka, Yaron Baratz, and Yuval Aflalo. The mission of Cellebrite is to protect common people by accelerating the justice rate and ensuring privacy. Cellebrite partners with both private and public organizations to monitor and manage their digital intelligence. This adversely helps in the investigation, protecting millions of life and sensitive data. Cellebrite is an award-winning Digital Intelligence Investigative Platform. The company maintains proper transparency while protecting and safeguarding public and private assets. Currently, the technology of Cellebrite is used in more than 140 countries for public safety.
Founding History
The three founders established Cellebrite in 1999 in Israel. Other executive members of the company like Ron Serber and Yossi Carmil joined the company eventually in 2001 and 2004 respectively. In 2005, both Serber and Carmil were made Co-CEOs but Carmil is holding the post individually after Serber resigned from the company in 2020. Since 1999, Cellebrite has come a long way in the next two decades as it has opened several offices around the globe. Currently, Cellebrite has fourteen offices spread across the world including major business spots in Washington, Munich, the US, Singapore, etc. In Nagoya, Japan, Cellebrite is a fully owned subsidiary of Sun Corporation. The company mainly came onto the radar of the police force and other law enforcement agencies when it unlocked the murderer’s phone in the San Bernardino massacre.
When the company was selling commercial products for the first time, it mainly manufactured both hardware and software. These products offered compressive phone-to-phone data transfer devices and that various contact transfer and synchronization tools for mobile phones. These products were developed to be used by various support staff, especially wireless carrier sales in retail stores. The company eventually decided to expand to other markets. Thus, in 2007, Cellebrite founded an independent business unit targeted at the mobile forensics industry. In the same year, Cellebrite came under the acquisition of FutureDial Incorporated and Sun Corporation (one of its major shareholders). In 2017, the company rebranded its Mobile Lifecycle division as Mobilogy. Mobilogy was mainly known for producing hardware and software products for various purposes like data backup, phone-to-phone data transfer, electronic software distribution, data analysis tools, etc.
Recent Days
As the company was expanding both geographically and in terms of product diversity, many firms started investing in the company. In 2019, Israeli Growth Partners invested around $110 million in Cellebrite. With the funds raised from funding, Company made a few acquisitions in the last two years. In 2020, the company acquired BlackBag Technologies, a computer forensics company. After this acquisition, Cellebrite expanded its digital intelligence solutions to include data collection tools from computers.
In 2021, the company announced a business agreement and its plan to merge with TWC Tech Holdings II Corporation. Since the acquisition has been completed, Company has become a publicly-traded company. In 2022, Cellebrite joined AWS Partner Network as an Advanced Technology Partner and recently it was named a Leader in the Inaugural IDC MarketScape on Digital Forensics.
Yossi Carmil – CEO of Cellebrite
Yossi Carmil has more than 25 years of experience especially when it comes to various leadership positions, business development, global sales, and many more. He has been working with Cellebrite for more than 16 years and as the CEO of the company he monitors everything from vision to execution. He worked at several other companies before joining Cellebrite including Siemens Israel Ltd, Elgad Com Group, and Bosch, Germany.
Annasha Dey is an NIT student, who apart from studying engineering is also a content writer. She has a great interest in photography, writing, reading novels, and travelling as well. She is a foodie who loves socializing and hanging out with her friends. She is also a trained Kathak dancer and a big fashion enthusiast. Dey also loves watching TV series, which includes F.R.I.E.N.D.S. and Big Bang Theory. To be a better writer she prefers to read more