BackupAgent In The Netherlands Gets $2M From Moscow’s Runa Capital To Go Global

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Tuesday, March 19th, 2013
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BackupAgent, provider of cloud backup technology from The Netherlands, has won a $2 million investment round led by Runa Capital in Moscow to strengthen its global footprint and develop its platform. Previous investor Solid Ventures also participated in the financing.

BackupAgent’s cloud backup software is designed for service providers, hosting providers and telcos that want to offer a backup service to their SME customers. The software is platform-agnostic and can handle large laptop/desktop environments as well as server farms with file and database servers and virtual environments. They also target service providers, hosting companies and telcos, but SMEs are the main focus.

The platform is currently deployed at more than 400 service providers, hosting companies and telcos, such as KPN in The Netherlands or Portugal Telecom, with 35,000 end-users globally.


Company: BackupAgent
Website: backupagent.com
Launch Date: May 2004
Funding: $2M

BackupAgent is the leading vendor of innovative online backup and recovery software. The Dutch company grew rapidly to become a worldwide operating firm. BackupAgent works with service providers and reseller partners that can supply the solutions under their own brand. Professionalism, product quality and ambitious expansion targets are key features of this up-and-coming firm. Such valuable characteristics go a long way towards explaining why BackupAgent has clients throughout Europe and America. The management team at BackupAgent combines innovation with...

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