LaunchSquad and ClairMail: Two Years Strong
Mobile banking is hot. If you’ve visited the Wells Fargo site recently you have undoubtedly seen ads for their mobile banking offering, and pretty much every other top 20 US bank has their own offering, or will have one very soon.
Novato-based ClairMail began as a mobile interaction platform that let people communicate with enterprise applications via SMS (text messaging) and email. This model lended itself perfectly to mobile banking which is now ClairMail’s core business. LaunchSquad and ClairMail have been working together for the past two years, and since then ClairMail has become a clear leader in the industry with several of the top 10 US banks as customers, including Wells Fargo and Wachovia, and recent partnerships with VeriSign and mobile banking vendor mFoundry.
It’s an interesting time in all things mobile – as the FCC prepares to auction off the highly desired 700 MHz spectrum, and carriers move (or pretend to move) to a more “open” model, the industry is definitely heating up. ClairMail was recently included in a BusinessWeek article about carriers not approving services to run on their network that they deemed competitive, including mobile banking. Open, they say? I think not.
It’s been an exciting and very educational two years with ClairMail, and as mobile banking and the wireless industry go through some significant changes in the near future, we’re expecting a fun ride.