Consumer Products Company

eFolder

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Funding Goal
Funding Raised So Far $26,000,002
Funding Commitments $0
Funding Remaining
Funding Type Common Equity
Pre-Money Valuation
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Company Overview


eFolder is a bootstrapped, growing, and cash-flow positive vendor of an award-winning suite of data protection and business continuity services. eFolder is also a channel only vendor, distributing exclusively through their network of partners. The eFolder solution empowers MSPs, VARs, and service providers to offer branded cloud file sync, data backup, business continuity, and email security solutions to their clients.

eFolder is the only channel-focused data protection vendor with an open philosophy, where they integrate their own proprietary technology, services, and cloud infrastructure with best-in-breed technology from multiple other vendors, including StorageCraft ShadowProtect, Dell AppAssure, and Mezeo, providing partners a one-stop-shop for the tools needed to meet their customers' individual requirements.

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Business Summary


Company Age 21 years, 9 months
Employees 8
Sub-Industry Other Consumer Products
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Products/Services


eFolder Cloud File Sync

Deliver feature rich file sync services to your clients, giving them secure access to their data on all their devices, while still retaining full control, management, and monitoring over the solution through a multi-tenant management console.
eFolder Cloud File Sync is a turn-key cloud service, running on eFolder's proven infrastructure and storage cloud. There is no infrastructure for you to provision, manage, maintain, or monitor. Just instantly provision and start building your profitable recurring revenue stream. We back the service with a 100% uptime SLA, giving you the confidence to deliver the service to even your most demanding clients.

eFolder Backup for Files

eFolder Backup for Files offers best-in-class file backup capabilities to the eFolder cloud. Designed for the channel, it is easy to use, with centralized provisioning, management, notification, and monitoring features built in. It works with both local and remote backups, and uses a high-speed fully automated block-level incremental backup engine. Using reverse delta technology, it cuts down on length restore times while creating full backups. eFolder Backup brings to the table top-notch data security and data integrity, and a unique pass phrase recovery system based on the best open standards (AES-256, HMAC-SHA-256, RSA-3072, TLS/SSL, PBKDF2, FIPS 197, NIST 800-38A). eFolder is channel-only, easy to use, absolutely secure, and boringly reliable.

eFolder BDR for ShadowProtect

eFolder BDR for ShadowProtect is a backup and disaster recovery service that delivers unparalleled data protection and business continuity to demanding business users. eFolder BDR is a service that combines StorageCraft ShadowProtect software for image-based, bare-metal backups, eFolder's technology for online backup to the cloud and global monitoring, an on-site appliance for near instant virtualization of backed up servers, and emergency in-the-cloud virtualization for worst case scenarios. eFolder BDR for ShadowProtect delivers a complete business continuity solution, by not only protecting client data, but guaranteeing uptime and resiliency for mission critical servers and applications.

eFolder Cloud for ShadowProtect

The eFolder Cloud for ShadowProtect is a service that backs upStorageCraft ShadowProtect backup images to the eFolder Storage Cloud and enables multiple disaster recovery options for partners and clients. eFolder delivers to partners all the key software and service components required, including access to competitive ShadowProtect software licensing; cloud storage in the eFolder Storage Cloud; cloud monitoring of local ShadowProtect backups; and multiple recovery options, including image download, overnight drive shipment, or recovery in the eFolder Continuity Cloud.

eFolder BDR for AppAssure

eFolder BDR for AppAssure is a service that combines Dell AppAssure software for image-based backups, an on-site appliance for near instant virtualization of backed up servers, online replication to the cloud, and emergency in-the-cloud virtualization for worst case scenarios. eFolder BDR for AppAssure delivers a complete business continuity solution, by not only protecting client data, but guaranteeing uptime and resiliency for mission critical servers and applications.

eFolder Cloud for AppAssure

eFolder Cloud for AppAssure is a service that replicates Dell AppAssure backup images to the eFolder Storage Cloud and enables multiple disaster recovery options for partners and clients. eFolder delivers partners all the key software and service components required, including access to competitive, wholesale AppAssure software licensing; a hosted AppAssure CORE server; block storage capacity in the eFolder Storage Cloud; and multiple recovery options, including image download, overnight drive shipment, or recovery in the eFolder Continuity Cloud.

eFolder Continuity Cloud

The eFolder Continuity Cloud is a wholesale, add-on service delivered to eFolder partners that enables the fast recovery of servers in the cloud on an emergency or as-needed basis. The eFolder Continuity Cloud is the only cloud recovery service that supports both StorageCraft ShadowProtect and Dell AppAssure server image recovery from a single cloud services provider. eFolder empowers partners to fully simulate a client environment in the cloud with powerful virtual routing and firewalling features that are easy to use and allow fully transparent access to virtualized servers.

eFolders partners can avoid the cost and complexity of building their own disaster recovery environment, while leveraging eFolders cloud to deliver premium business continuity and disaster recovery services to business clients. MSPs offering strict 24 hour service level agreements for server recovery are able to generate lucrative and highly profitable recurring revenue streams from demanding business clients.

eFolder Email Security

eFolder Email Security is a cloud email security solution that requires no on-site hardware or software. Leveraging the eFolder Security Cloud, eFolder Email Security delivers comprehensive inbound and outbound protection from spam, viruses, spyware, and phishing attacks, while ensuring email visibility and control for administrators and dynamic, per-user filtering for employees.

Management


Bill Gross
Chief Financial Officer
Bill G......

Bill G...... founded Idealab in March 1996 and serves as the company's Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer. Bill founded Idealab to create and build successful businesses that capitalize on innovations in areas with significant growth opportunities, including the Internet.

A lifelong entrepreneur, Bill started several companies prior to Idealab. In high school, he founded Solar Devices, a firm that sold plans and kits for solar energy products. In college at the California Institute of Technology, he patented a new loudspeaker design and formed GNP Loudspeakers, Inc.

After graduating from college, Bill and his brother Larry started GNP Development, Inc., which made a natural language product for Lotus 1-2-3 called HAL. In 1985, Lotus Development Corporation acquired GNP and Bill became a software entrepreneur at Lotus Development.

Chief Executive Officer
Kevin H......

CEO/CTO at eFolder

Chief Operating Officer
George W......

COO/ VP Sales at eFolder

Vice President Marketing
Ted H......

Vice President Development
Jan S......

VP Channel Development at eFolder

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