Spanning Cloud Apps offers enterprise-class data protection and backup specifically for Google Apps, covering Gmail, Drive, Sites, Calendars and Contacts. The service emphasizes the ability to restore data as it appeared in Google Apps and provides IT administrators with monitoring tools that show system status, problems, errors, likely causes and suggested fixes. The product includes a stylish interface and day-by-day reports to track the health of a company’s Google Apps deployment. Spanning positions itself as an independent third-party backup to ensure information remains available outside of Google; CEO Charlie Wood described an "invisible wall" between Google and Spanning to preserve customer trust. Competitive dynamics are active: after Symantec invested in Backupify, Symantec competitors began contacting Spanning about investing. Financially, the company recently raised $6 million, bringing total capital raised to date to $9 million. Spanning Cloud Apps is an Austin, Texas–based developer of cloud-based applications. Its flagship product, Spanning Backup, provides backup and restore functionality for Google Apps users and administrators. The company spun out from Spanning Sync, Inc. and is led by founder and CEO Charlie Wood. On April 16, 2011 it raised $2M from Foundry Group. As part of the investment, Seth Levine, Managing Director at Foundry Group, joined Spanning's board of directors. The company intends to use the funds to expand its portfolio of cloud products for Google Apps and to accelerate development of complementary solutions for other major cloud service providers.

Total raised

$8M

Funding rounds

2

Latest round

Series B

Latest activity

Mar 2013