Egnyte


Egnyte is a software company that provides a cloud platform for enterprise file synchronization and sharing as well as content and data governance for business customers. It offers storage, collaboration, and sharing capabilities using a cloud infrastructure, and users can access files from on-premises and cloud environments.

History

Headquartered in Mountain View, California, Egnyte was founded in 2007, and incorporated in 2008.
Egnyte received $1 million seed venture capital in 2007, $6 million in July 2009, $10 million in 2011, and $16 million in 2012.
Egnyte announced a $29.5 million investment that included Seagate, CenturyLink, Northgate Capital, and prior investors Kleiner Perkins, Google Ventures and Polaris Partners. The full list of investors include: Google Ventures, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Floodgate Fund, Polaris Partners, Northgate, CenturyLink and Seagate.
Egnyte's software can use storage hardware such as the Dell PowerEdge T140, the Lenovo M-Series Tiny, and the SuperMicro Mini Tower. It can also use Hyper-V and VMware for on site servers. The company formed partnerships with cloud vendors such as Amazon, Microsoft, and Google Cloud.
On January 20, 2015, the company announced what it called adaptive enterprise file services, and content intelligence and smart reporting and auditing services.
In March 2015, the company unveiled its Egnyte for Google Apps that allows customers to move files between Google Drive and their own data center. Google Apps administrators can set up the integration and then manage permissions.
Egnyte also unveiled new mobile apps in May 2015 for file sharing on platforms including the Apple Watch.
By June 2016, Egnyte announced a move into data protection technology, as the file synchronization market was seen to mature.
In October 2016, the company announced it would recommend Microsoft Azure as a cloud provider, despite what was considered as the somewhat competing service OneDrive operated by Microsoft.
By the end of 2019, the company reported having more than 16,000 customers worldwide, and had reached more than $100 million in annual recurring revenue.

Technology

As of 2020, the Egnyte Content Services Platform emphasizes specific areas of enterprise content management: