Backupify provides cloud backup, search and restore solutions for online services such as Google Apps, Salesforce, Facebook and Twitter. Founded in 2008 and based in Cambridge, the company focuses on enterprise backup with Google Apps Backup at its core and plans to launch a Salesforce.com backup service out of beta next month. Backupify serves about 170,000 consumer users (some paying) primarily for lead generation, and has roughly 5,000 paying business customers. It hosts around 350 terabytes of compressed data, backs up over 2 billion email messages and over 500 million documents, and charges by seat from about $3/month up to more than $5,000/month for large customers. CEO Rob May says revenue is "decent" and still in the single digits of millions of dollars; the 30-person team will use the new funding to grow sales and marketing and to slowly expand engineering. The company has observed larger enterprises adopting cloud apps and expects continued demand for backup as a best practice. Backupify offers an all-in-one cloud data protection suite that archives, indexes, and restores data from popular online services including Google Apps, Gmail, Facebook, Twitter and Flickr. Its core product is a first-to-market backup solution for the full Google Apps suite, with functionality for search and rapid restore. The company plans to use new capital to accelerate development of the Google Apps backup product while expanding product functionality and launching services for other cloud management solutions and tools. Backupify positions itself as a provider of enterprise data protection best practices for IT departments moving to SaaS. The company reports more than 5,000 Google Apps domains signed up (a >4,000% increase since its Series A), over 175,000 total users, and protection of more than 200 terabytes of data. Backupify provides cloud-to-cloud backup and data-management services that copy and retain raw data from third-party cloud applications including Twitter, Facebook, Gmail, Flickr, WordPress, Blogger and YouTube. The service preserves raw data and can produce downloadable PDFs containing items such as tweets, direct messages, followers, people you follow and profile information. Backupify offers free and premium tiers and says it is gaining traction with enterprise customers seeking to preserve social and cloud-based data. The company plans to use its new funding to enhance product development and expand its focus on data management services targeting the growing volume of enterprise data in cloud applications. Backupify was founded in 2008 by Rob May and launched the service last June. Backupify provides cloud-to-cloud backup services that store raw data from web services and generates downloadable archives (for example, PDFs of Tweets, DMs, followers and profile info). The service runs on Amazon Web Services and is free for up to 1 GB of data; about 60,000 consumers have signed up through word of mouth. Today it supports popular services including Twitter, Facebook, Gmail, Google Docs, Flickr, WordPress, Blogger, and YouTube. CEO Rob May plans consumer pricing of $5/month or $50/year for up to 10 GB and intends to expand into business backups with different rates for corporations. The company also plans to add more business-oriented services such as online accounting apps and to support backups for corporate use cases like compliance. Backupify recently closed a seed financing that will support those product and go-to-market plans.

Total raised

$19M

Funding rounds

4

Latest round

Series C

Latest activity

Jul 2012