Mavenir

Mavenir is a cloud-native software company to the communications service provider (CSP) market, headquartered in Richardson, Texas, US. The company has a complex corporate history as a result of repeated acquisition and spin off, but in its current incarnation has a USD500 million turnover (2018),[1] 3,300 employees and over 250 telecoms service provider customers.

Mavenir
Private
IndustryTelecommunications software
Founded2017
(main predecessor companies 1997, 2005, and 2007)
Foundermerger led by Siris Capital Group, LLC
HeadquartersRichardson, Texas, U.S.
Key people
Pardeep Kohli (President and CEO)
Products
  • Mobile Operator Messaging Infrastructure - SMS, MMS (2G / 3G - SS7)
  • RCS
  • Advanced Communications and Messaging as a Platform (MaaP)
  • Security & Signaling Control
  • Voicemail
  • VAS & Low Credit Services
Number of employees
3300 (2020)
Websitemavenir.com

Customers

The company says it has 250+ operator customers in 140 countries, including 17 of the top 20 largest operators. Known examples include:

  • 2012 - MetroPCS - VoLTE solution to support what was claimed to be a world's first[2]
  • 2014 - T-Hrvatski Telekom - IMS HSS-FE[3]
  • 2015 - T-Mobile USA - RCS[4]
  • 2019 - Telefonica Argentina - Signalling Firewall [5]
  • 2019 - Vodafone - Open RAN[6]
  • 2020 - T-Mobile Czech Republic and Slovak Telekom[7]
  • 2020 - O2 virtualised IMS[8]
  • 2020 - Rakuten Mobile RCS[9]

History
Comverse building in Wakefield, Massachusetts in the U.S. in 2015

Mavenir has a complex corporate history. It comprises pieces of Comverse, Inc. (which derived from the well-known Comverse Technology) and Acision, the combination of which was known as Xura between 2015 and 2017.[10][1] As well as an earlier company that was called Mavenir Systems (which was the source of the name Mavenir). This company was acquired by Mitel Networks Corporation before becoming part of the new Mavenir. Mavenir Systems had grown through acquisition, and the new Mavenir has continued to acquire technology subsequently.

Company timeline
  • 2005: Mavenir Systems founded
  • 2008: Mavenir Systems completes round of funding for $17.5 million
  • 2010: Mavenir Systems completes a round of funding round for $13.5 million backed by Alloy Ventures, Austin Ventures and North Bridge Venture Partners[11]
  • 2011: Mavenir Systems completes round of funding for $40 million backed by August Capital and including existing investors Alloy Ventures, Austin Ventures, North Bridge Venture Partners and Greenspring Associates[12]
  • 2011: Mavenir Systems acquired Airwide Solutions, a messaging specialist for $40 million[13]
  • 2013: Mavenir Systems IPO (NYSE) under ticker MVNR, raising $44.5 million[14]
  • 2014: acquired security gateway vendor Stoke for $2.9 million plus $1.9 million of debt[15]
  • 2015: acquired signalling vendor Ulticom for $20 million[16]
  • 2015: acquired by Mitel for $560 million[17]
  • 2016: rebranded by Mitel to Mitel Mobile, then sold to Xura (for $350 million)[18]
  • 2016: Ranzure raises $13 million in Series A funding[19]
  • 2016: Xura acquired Ranzure[20]
  • 2017: Siris merges Xura, Ranzure and Mitel Mobile and rebrands as Mavenir[21]
  • 2017: Brocade vEPCc acquisition[22]
  • 2018: acquired Aquto[23]
  • 2018: acquired Argyle Data[24]

Origins of Xura
Xura building in Ra'anana, Israel at night in 2017

On 19 November 1997, Comverse Inc. was incorporated[25] as part of the larger Comverse Technology.

Between August 2012 and 4 February 2013, a series of transactions were announced that would end Comverse Technology as a functioning entity, by making Comverse Network Systems an independent company (known simply as 'Comverse') once again, allowing Verint Systems (the former Comverse Infosys) to buy back Comverse Technology's majority stake in it, and selling off other subsidiaries.[26][27] These transactions represented the effective liquidation of the Comverse Technology holding entity[27][28] and the emergence of Comverse Inc. as a fully independent company.

At this time (March 2015) Comverse had 3,000 employees, of whom 750 were located in Israel. Its headquarters were in Wakefield, Massachusetts, US. Its products and solutions included traditional VAS (TVAS), Digital Services from the Cloud (mVas), Unified Communications (Cloud Business VoIP & UC), and the Evolved Communication Suite.

In June 2015, Comverse divested its BSS business to Amdocs. And then in August 2015 Comverse announced it had completed the previously-announced acquisition of Acision,[10] a privately-held secure mobile messaging and engagement services firm.

The Xura logo

The newly-merged Comverse and Acision rebranded as Xura Inc. on 9 September 2015.[10][29][30][31] The name 'Xura' was adapted from the word 'Aura'.[29] Philippe Tartavull became President and CEO of Xura. The company had two core product sets: Digital Communications Services and Converged Communications (traditional and IP). The company traded under the stock symbol MESG on the NASDAQ exchange. The company had over 350 service providers and enterprises customers across 100 countries.

On 23 May 2016,[32] Xura announced it would be acquired by affiliates of Siris Capital Group for $25.00 per share in an all-cash deal. This valued the company at approximately $643 million. The transaction closed on 19 August 2016, taking Xura Inc. from a public company to a privately-owned company of affiliates of Siris Capital Group, LLC. Hubert de Pesquidoux, a Siris Capital Executive Partner, became Xura’s new Executive Chairman.

The New Mavenir

On 19 December 2016, affiliates of Xura agreed to acquire Mitel Mobility, a division of Mitel Networks Corporation for $385 million, and Ranzure Networks Inc., for an undisclosed sum.[33][34] Xura also announced when the transactions were complete, the newly merged company would be rebranded as Mavenir Systems Inc., often just known as Mavenir.[1]

Part of the motivation for this series of corporate moves was that the acquisition of the original Mavenir Systems had not gone well for Mitel.[34]

The company has continued to acquire technology - most recently via its acquisitions of Aquto (2018) and Argyle Data (2018).

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  7. "T-Mobile Czech Republic and Slovak Telekom Both Deploy Mavenir Tech". Omnisperience. Retrieved 4 February 2020.
  8. "O2 Deploys Mavenir's Virtualised IMS Solutions". Omnisperience. 18 February 2020.
  9. "Rakuten deploys Mavenir RCS solution for communication app". India Times. 9 April 2020.
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