{"id":3839,"date":"2012-09-27T14:55:00","date_gmt":"2012-09-27T14:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cloudnewsdaily.com\/?guid=869b829c7696a408a60f0838d95ebd9d"},"modified":"2012-09-27T14:55:00","modified_gmt":"2012-09-27T14:55:00","slug":"mimecast-gets-62-million-for-email-archiving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/mimecast-gets-62-million-for-email-archiving\/","title":{"rendered":"Mimecast Gets $62 Million for Email Archiving"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n

Mimecast, a provider of cloud-based email archiving<\/a>, security and continuity for Microsoft Exchange and Office 365, has today announced that it has secured $62.15 million in Series C funding led by Global Private Equity Firm Insight Venture Partners<\/a>, with existing investors Dawn Capital<\/a> also participating. Mimecast plans to use the funding to accelerate the development and deployment of new technology, and to support plans for rapid expansion in the U.S. market. <\/span><\/p>\n

Founded in the U.K. in 2003 by Peter Bauer (CEO) and Neil Murray (CTO), Mimecast has grown rapidly, with over 50 percent year on year revenue growth recorded in six of the past nine years. Today, the Company has over 6,000 customers globally \u2013 including 70 percent of the U.K.\u2019s top 100 law firms \u2013 and over 1.5 million users worldwide.<\/p>\n

In addition to growing its existing business within the European, American and South African markets, Mimecast intends to use the investment to drive innovations in corporate email. The Company\u2019s technology has already played an instrumental role in changing the way businesses deploy email; leading the transition from fragmented LAN-based infrastructures to a single platform cloud solution, Unified Email Management (UEM). Mimecast will now focus on continuing this evolution, using its Software-as-a-Service technology to create an Information Banking platform that allows businesses to unlock the inherent value stored within corporate email.<\/p>\n

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\u201cToday\u2019s businesses are as dependent on email as ever but, increasingly, email struggles to keep up as the way we create, store and share information changes,\u201d Peter Bauer, CEO and co-founder, Mimecast. \u201cAt Mimecast, we believe email needs to be rewired if it is to continue to deliver real value to businesses. Building on our history of innovation, we are working to make email more collaborative and more interactive to realize the true value of the vast amount of unstructured data in email stores. We believe that the future is a more interactive archiving model, where IT folk and end users alike can derive more value in real time, on a day-to-day basis on any technology platform they choose to use. The cloud has the potential to democratize information management and deliver these kinds of powerful productivity tools to businesses of all sizes, rather than just being the preserve of the largest enterprises.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cEmail is the most important means of business communication and, better than anyone else, Mimecast delivers a true integrated solution for secure and accessible email,\u201d said Jeff Lieberman, managing director, Insight Venture Partners. \u201cMimecast has already achieved strong success and with their product superiority, the industry\u2019s move towards cloud solutions and a very large market opportunity, we believe that Mimecast is poised to achieve high growth and become the global leader in unified email management. Insight is delighted to share in this journey with management and existing shareholders.\u201d<\/p>\n

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