We are pleased to report that Nobska Ventures' portfolio company, Telecontinuity, Inc., has just been awarded its first patent. This patent is the core intellectual property of the company, addressing location independent voice communications continuity. The company has filed for additional patent protection on various extensions of this fundamental capability.
Telecontinuity's technology is entirely unique and is currently the only viable solution to the serious problem of loss of voice communications during disasters, emergencies, evacuations, or other outages. Customers include government agencies and corporations concerned with the financial impacts of lost communications. The company has recently added two major international financial institutions to its roster of prestige clients, and is in contracting with many more companies, both large and small, domestic and international. To fund international growth, Telecontinuity will be entering into a Series C financing round shortly.
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TeleContinuity Awarded its First Patent to Provide Voice Communications during Disasters, Emergencies or Evacuations
ROCKVILLE, MD - (November 5, 2007) TeleContinuity, Inc., the leader in voice recovery and telecommunications continuity announced today that the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has issued the company its first patent, number 7,289,493 titled "System And Method For Providing Location Independent Voice Communications Continuity Through Disasters." Issued October 30, 2007, this latest patent focuses on preserving voice communications continuity through disasters. The technology provided by TeleContinuity provides a survivable backup system to maintain telephone communications during outages or disruption. TeleContinuity can deliver calls to any location, over any network and through any voice-capable device.
"The issuance of the first patent in our portfolio of technology is a significant milestone for the company," said Raul Vera, Chief Technical Officer. "Our technology enables organizations to recover their voice capabilities during the most extreme circumstances and allows businesses and government agencies to maintain continuity of operations throughout those events."
About Telecontinuity, Inc.
TeleContinuity's unique patent-pending technology will deliver incoming telephone calls to all subscribers at their existing telephone extensions -- over any device, at any location and over any network -- as though no service disruption had occurred. TeleContinuity is a fully outsourced service solution that can minimize, or even eliminate, the economic or service impact from a telecommunications disruption by offering subscribers the ability to maintain continuity of operations. The TeleContinuity "Survivable Network" maintains Points of Presence (POPS) across the United States, enabling TeleContinuity to provide national coverage to its subscribers. Telecontinuity has received close to $10 million in funding from The National Institute of Standards and Technology's Advanced Technology Program (NIST-ATP), other government funding, angel investors, and Nobska Ventures. Learn more about TeleContinuity at www.telecontinuity.com.
About Nobska Ventures
Nobska Ventures supports exceptional entrepreneurs and management teams in Israel and the United States with early stage venture capital, experienced strategic and operational counsel, and global market access and relationships. Investors in Nobska Ventures include successful entrepreneurs, institutions, and major corporations with strategic interests in Nobska's investment focus areas: advanced Information and Communications technologies for Enterprise Management and Security, Defense Intelligence and Electronics, Homeland Security and Healthcare. Learn more about Nobska Ventures at www.nobskaventures.com.