The founder of Research In Motion Ltd (NASDAQ:BBRY) Mike Lazaridis declared that he’s confident that users of iPhones as well as other devices will squeeze the firm’s BlackBerry Messenger platform, which will be proposed on competitor phones soon after current year.

Lazaridis, who leaved as co-CEO in early 2012, stated in an interview at the Bloomberg Canada Economic Summit in Toronto that BBM is by distant the most forceful wireless experience as well as wireless social-networking environment.

Waterloo, Ontario based BlackBerry released previous week it will bring BBM to the iPhone and Google Inc.’s Android operating system in the coming few months. More than 60 million BlackBerry customers currently used free service, which rely on it to send over 10B messages a day.

The verdict by recent CEO Thorsten Heins to turn the messaging service into a separate application shows that the new BlackBerry 10 platform is flourishing and be able to lure users without the individuality of BBM, said by Lazaridis.

Lazaridis added that he is speaking to the confidence he has in the platform. Not merely is BlackBerry back in a big way with BB10, he is also performance he can get bigger that vision to other platforms.

The Mike & Ophelia Lazaridis Quantum-Nano Centre released in September in Waterloo backed by his $100M donation. In March, he began a $97M fund called Quantum Valley Investments with Doug Fregin, an old friend as well as co-founder of BlackBerry, beforehand known as Research In Motion Ltd. (BB) The objective is to commercialize technologies from a bunch of research centers.

Lazaridis said today that the fund has previously invested in a couple of firms, refusing to elaborate.