Wickr provides end-to-end encrypted messaging, file sharing, and secure audio/video conferencing on mobile and desktop, with built-in user verification and administrative controls for enterprise and government deployments. The platform is configured to help agencies comply with federal data-protection regulations and NIST best-practice guidance and was cited in The Forrester New Wave: Secure Communications, Q4 2018, as a leader in the space. Wickr emphasizes that all data streams are encrypted in transit and at rest and that files never touch transport servers unencrypted or reside on Wickr infrastructure. The company exposes REST-based APIs and, together with its partner Merlin, is running full-day workshops to build custom integrations and extend platform functionality. Through the Merlin partnership, Wickr aims to accelerate deployment into federal agencies and highly regulated industries using standard enterprise tools such as LDAP, single sign-on, and mobile device management. Wickr offers end-to-end encrypted messaging that ties content to a device rather than a user account, enabling self-destructing text, audio, and video. The app emphasizes privacy in the wake of the NSA spying scandal and targets both mainstream consumers and enterprise customers. Wickr says it now has the resources to "build the most trusted communications system in the world." As part of scaling, the company is building a new Financial Services Division led by Andrew Caspersen, the former chief security and privacy officer at Schwab, based in Chicago. The company recently completed a second funding round and had raised an earlier $9 million round a few months prior. Management frames these moves as supporting product and trust-focused expansion. Wickr builds a messaging app that sends end-to-end encrypted, self‑destructing messages and bypasses servers with a direct sender-to-recipient architecture. The main consumer app is free and the company says it will remain so while it develops a business model based on licensing its encryption and self‑destructing technologies to other messaging apps. Wickr intends to sell licenses to telcos and other enterprise messaging-service providers, which are reported to be in the customer pipeline. The company has seen rapid user growth, adding between 50,000 and 200,000 new accounts per day, with a 50% signup jump after the Snapchat breach and a 600% jump after the WhatsApp/Facebook news. In September 2013 Wickr reported “hundreds of thousands” of users and said it was serving millions of messages daily. Founder and CEO Nico Sell, a co‑founder of the DEF CON security/hacker conference, moved the product from RSA to elliptic‑curve encryption and has publicly resisted requests to install a government backdoor.

Total raised

$39M

Funding rounds

3

Latest round

Series B

Latest activity

Jun 2014