Ahead of the Mobile World Congress, Silent Circle has announced it has bought Geekphone which would see the company takeover the Blackphone project. Hardware company, Geekphone collaborated with Silence Circle on the Blackphone which was announced at the MWC last year.
The $600 priced smartphone runs PrivatOS (a customised version of Android) and uses an encryption service to ensure the barest minimum date leaks out and also it has privacy focused apps on it.
Silent Circle now fully own Blackphone and it’s associate services. The company also announced it has also raised $50 Million in private equity round to secure the future growth of the company.
“Silent Circle has brought tremendous disruption to the mobile industry and created an integrated suite of secure enterprise communication products that are challenging the status quo. This first stage of growth has enabled us to raise approximately $50m to accelerate our continued rapid expansion and fuel our second stage of growth. Just under a year ago, we introduced Blackphone at Mobile World Congress. Since then, we’ve continued to develop new, privacy-first products for our integrated software suite as well as Blackphone, the first hardware device in our portfolio of privacy solutions.”
said Mike Janke, Co-Founder and Executive Chairman of the Silent Circle Board.
It is also expected to announce the world’s first enterprise privacy ecosystem along with new devices, software and services at Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2015.
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