{"id":43303,"date":"2020-09-10T19:44:13","date_gmt":"2020-09-10T17:44:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newserver.fyb.de\/afinum-acquires-stake-in-secure-messaging-provider-threema\/"},"modified":"2020-09-10T19:44:13","modified_gmt":"2020-09-10T17:44:13","slug":"afinum-acquires-stake-in-secure-messaging-provider-threema","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fyb.de\/en\/afinum-acquires-stake-in-secure-messaging-provider-threema\/","title":{"rendered":"Afinum acquires stake in secure messaging provider Threema"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Munich\/ Pf\u00e4f\u00adfi\u00adkon (Switz\u00ader\u00adland) \u2014 <strong>Afinum<\/strong> Achte Betei\u00adli\u00adgungs\u00adge\u00adsell\u00adschaft mbH &amp; Co KG, advi\u00adsed by Afinum Manage\u00adment GmbH, acqui\u00adres a stake in<strong> Threema<\/strong> GmbH. Toge\u00adther with the foun\u00adders Martin Blat\u00adter, Manuel Kasper and Silvan Enge\u00adler, who will remain signi\u00adfi\u00adcantly invol\u00adved after the tran\u00adsac\u00adtion, Afinum will support the growth course of the past years. Toge\u00adther with Afinum, the company intends to further expand its own market posi\u00adtion as the leading Euro\u00adpean secure messen\u00adger for private and corpo\u00adrate customers.<\/p>\n<p>Threema (www.threema.ch), based in Pf\u00e4f\u00adfi\u00adkon, Switz\u00ader\u00adland, is a leading Euro\u00adpean secure messa\u00adging provi\u00adder for private users, public insti\u00adtu\u00adti\u00adons as well as compa\u00adnies. With Three\u00adma\u2019s soft\u00adware solu\u00adti\u00adons, neither meta\u00addata nor chat content is stored, which is a strong diffe\u00adren\u00adtia\u00adtor from other commer\u00adcial messen\u00adgers. This reflects the primary goal of ensu\u00adring custo\u00admer data secu\u00adrity and privacy. 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Threema will conti\u00adnue to improve its own soft\u00adware and deve\u00adlop addi\u00adtio\u00adnal features to conti\u00adnue provi\u00adding custo\u00admers with the most secure secure messen\u00adger. Thanks to the inno\u00adva\u00adtive cross-plat\u00adform multi-device solu\u00adtion, Threema will also be usable on multi\u00adple devices in paral\u00adlel in the future, without leaving perso\u00adnal data on a server. In addi\u00adtion, Threema will fully disc\u00adlose the source code of Threema apps in the coming months to allow anyone to check the secu\u00adrity and func\u00adtion\u00ada\u00adlity of Threema itself and verify that the published source code matches the instal\u00adled&nbsp;app.<\/p>\n<p>The invest\u00adment in Threema is the ninth plat\u00adform tran\u00adsac\u00adtion of Afinum Achte Betei\u00adli\u00adgungs\u00adge\u00adsell\u00adschaft mbH &amp; Co.&nbsp;KG.<\/p>\n<p><strong>About AFINUM<\/strong><br>\nAFINUM Manage\u00adment GmbH is an inde\u00adpen\u00addent manage\u00adment-owned invest\u00adment company with offices in Munich, Zurich and Hong Kong, specia\u00adli\u00adzing in invest\u00adments in successful medium-sized compa\u00adnies in German-spea\u00adking Europe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Munich\/ Pf\u00e4f\u00adfi\u00adkon (Switz\u00ader\u00adland) \u2014 Afinum Achte Betei\u00adli\u00adgungs\u00adge\u00adsell\u00adschaft mbH &amp; Co KG, advi\u00adsed by Afinum Manage\u00adment GmbH, acqui\u00adres a stake in Threema GmbH. 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