The individual version, Wickr Me, is a free competitor to popular mobile applications such as Signal and Telegram, along with less secure applications such as Snapchat and WhatsApp. Most NJIT users would opt for the first two categories. The company's products fall into four categories - individual users (Wickr Me), small businesses (Wickr Pro), large businesses (Wickr Enterprise) and military (Wickr RAM). Air Force, ahead of attracting Amazon's attention. Wickr's most noteworthy win was a $35 million contract to develop a secure communications system for the U.S. They settled in Manhattan and reached 100 employees, along with 100 patents and millions of users worldwide.
The company continued growing with venture capital from Silicon Valley, hiring NJIT graduates whenever possible, and moved into larger offices in Newark's Military Park neighborhood. Wickr formed in NJIT's Venturelink incubator offices in 2011, then known as the Enterprise Development Center. "Wickr is a product of Newark and New Jersey," said Statica, a senior university lecturer in informatics who was also a founder of the college's information technology division with Fadi Deek. Wickr's Highlander roots run deep, as most of its early employees are affiliated with Ying Wu College of Computing, including co-founder, alumnus, and senior university lecturer Robert Statica, adjunct instructor Chris Howell and alumna Kara Coppa. Online commerce giant Amazon recently acquired Wickr, a secure messaging company founded at NJIT in 2011 that's known for its focus on corporate and military customers, and will integrate the technology into its Amazon Web Services portfolio.
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