Launched Velti mGage in October, the one platform where buyers and sellers can fulfill all their mobile marketing and advertising needs.
Acquisition of Ad Infuse in May provides strategic play in the global ad serving market.
JV with HT Media, HT Mobile Solutions opens for business with connectivity to 95% of India's mobile operators and access to over 400 million consumers.
CASEE continues to progress in China and is now serving 1 billion ads per month.
New ad agency and brand campaigns worldwide with companies including McCann Erickson, Ogilvy, Unilever, Honda, Renault, Coca-Cola, Becks, Nutella, Colgate-Palmolive and J & B.
New contracts signed with Vodafone, MTS, Orascom-WIND, Comsote, MTEL, Vivatel and Orange.
Reached 450 employees with more than 200 technology staff.
Acquired Ad Infuse in May.
2008
Entry into the Chinese market with investment in CASEE.
Signed a partnership with Vantrix, a mobile content delivery company, to support a universal video advertising platform.
Launched version 4.0 of the Mobile Marketing Platform, with more than 70 enhanced advertising and marketing templates enabling new interactive mobile mediums including mobile communities, games, loyalty schemes, mobile coupons and social networks.
Won the Visiongain MAMA 2007 Innovation Award for technology in mobile advertising.
Reached 300 employees with more than 180 technology staff.
Opened new offices in Moscow, Beijing, Dubai and Mumbai.
2007
Joint venture with Interpublic Group to create Ansible Mobile – the first global mobile marketing agency.
Launched version 3.5 of the Mobile Marketing Platform.
Raised €10.7 million via a secondary placing of new ordinary shares to institutional investors in the UK, Continental Europe and North America.
Expanded operations in South-Eastern Europe by acquiring M-Telecom (Bulgaria).
Velti Mobile Marketing Platform was a finalist for the Mobile Marketing Association Global Awards 2007.
Velti won contracts with key clients including Mobile Operators such as Orange, Orascom’s Wind, Globe Telecom, Q-Telecom, and Cosmofon FYROM; Brands such as Microsoft, General Motors, Mastercard, Johnson & Johnson, Colgate-Palmolive, Bayer, Lays, Nestle, Kellogg’s, Wrigley’s, Bacardi, Hennessy, HP, Ferrero, Avenue, Aspis Bank and Western Union; and Media Companies including Disney, MTV and CBS.
Expanded the UK office and opened new office in San Francisco.
2006
Incorporated as Velti plc.
Successful IPO on London’s AIM Market, raising €12.5 million net.
Expanded operations in North America by opening an office in New York.
Launched version 3.0 of the Mobile Marketing Platform.
Fully managed a mobile commerce service for Argos with record number of enquiries for stock-checking and reservations.
Launched a mobile music community and m-ticketing program for Orange UK.
Designed and developed the be-Q WAP portal for Q-Telecom, the TIM Plus on-deck WAP portal, and the Verizon/CBS (MaxPreps high school sports) on-deck portal.
Won a new contract with Cosmote for a core mobile value added services platform.
Acquired the assets of Digital Rum, a leading UK mobile services provider.
Top 10 technology stock within AIM for growth during 2006.
2005
Launched Velti’s mobile ASP service which included the management and aggregation of content enabling ad agencies and brands to market through the mobile channel.
Started to implement mobile marketing campaigns for media groups and advertising agencies through shortcodes; Ran a voting text-messaging campaign for the ‘Best Dressed Woman 2005’ on behalf of Hello! Magazine.
Revenue share agreements with 5 European mobile network operators (MNOs) Vodafone, TIM, Cosmote, QTelecom and Armentel as well as US MNOs (Verizon, Sprint, T-Mobile, Cingular Blue, Cingular Orange, Alltel, Dobson, Boost, Syniverse).
2004
Developed and supported the Athens 2004 Olympic Games Organising Committee portal.
Strengthened relationship with Vodafone by being awarded a further four projects for Content Management and SMS alert applications.
Won a heavily contested contract with Telecom Italia (TIM) for TIM’s WAP portal.
Implemented the first projects in Cyprus with CYTA and in Romania with Rom Telecom.
Established itself as a top provider of the Business Process Management (BPM) solutions with 14 successful installations in the financial services market.
2003
Formed a US sales team and established an office in Boston.
Further contracts awarded by Vodafone including mobile VAS and e-commerce solutions.
Commenced a variety of integration projects with OTE for number portability.
Explored text messaging applications and mobile marketing solutions with Sony Ericsson, Odeon Theatres and Intralot.
2002
Secured the first SMS alerts project with Vodafone, the start of a long and productive relationship (the forerunner to the Mobile Marketing Platform, MMP v1.0).
Developed and launched the Content Management System v 1.0 application.
35 employees at the end of 2002.
2001
Developed and launched Velti Business Process Management, a process automation tool that became the core of Velti’s offering for the banking sector.
2000
Company founded as a software and ASP provider, servicing the needs of the mobile telecommunications industry, media, financial services and government.
Nicholas Negroponte joined the company as an investor and a non executive member of the board.
