January 15th, 2013

YouSendIt Acquires Found To Enable Integrated File Search Across Apps, Devices, Cloud Storage Platforms And More

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Cloud collaboration company YouSendIt has acquired Found Software, a startup that allows users to search for, find and discover their files, documents, and data across devices and cloud services. The acquisition price was not disclosed but we hear it was a cash and stock deal. → Read More

June 13th, 2012

YouSendIt Now Lets Yahoo Mail’s 310M+ Users Easily Share Big Files

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YouSendIt, the file transfer and business content collaboration service, has been trucking along of late, in spite of competition from plucky upstarts like Box. The startup has 98 percent of Fortune 500 companies on board in some form or another, and last we heard, YouSendIt had over 600K paying customers along with 30 million registered users.

In May, the company found a new CEO in Brad→ Read More

April 2nd, 2012

YouSendIt CEO Ivan Koon To Step Down As The Company Looks For New Funding

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We’ve learned that Ivan Koon, the CEO of cloud collaboration company YouSendIt, will be stepping down from the company. We’ve confirmed this with YouSendIt. A replacement has not been named, and Koon, who has been at YouSendIt for six years, will be leaving the company.

For background, YouSendIt was one of the pioneers of file sharing, offering a service that mainly appealed to… → Read More

March 6th, 2012

YouSendIt Debuts Workstream, A File Sharing Platform For The Enterprise

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Cloud collaboration company YouSendIt is debuting a new product today called Workstream. Designed specifically for enterprises, Workstream is a file sharing platform for businesses, and offers deeper integration with Microsoft SharePoint and helps users securely share content beyond the firewall and across mobile devices, desktops and the Web.

For background, YouSendIt was one of the pioneers→ Read More

January 5th, 2011

YouSendIt Buys Email Collaboration Startup Attassa And E-Signature Service Zosh

File sharing service YouSendIt has just announced the acquisitions of email collaboration startup Attassa and e-signature service Zosh. Terms of the deals were not disclosed.

Attassa’s SDK adds a collaborative layer on top of Microsoft Outlook. Features include file-sharing, synchronization and backup service. Attassa’s nifty iPhone app, which we wrote about here, also synchronizes users’ email… → Read More

August 2nd, 2010

YouSendIt Raises $15 Million Series D

File sharing service YouSendIt has closed a $15 million Series D funding round led by Adams Street Partners, with existing investors Emergence Capital, Sigma Partners, and Alloy Ventures also participating. Robin Murray, a partner at Adams Street, will become an observer for the company’s board of directors.

YouSendIt’s core product allows users to easily send and receive files and folders as… → Read More

August 8th, 2009

16 Apps That Make Sharing Large Files A Snap

File sharing services are not as popular today as they were four years ago. It’s not that people are sharing any less. Rather, they just found easier ways to do it. Would you upload a funny video from a friend’s email to any of those services or would you search for it on Youtube and share only the link? Would you upload an MP3 file in order to share with whomever, or would you search for it… → Read More

July 14th, 2008

YouSendIt Closes Its $14 Million Series C Round

YouSendIt has raised an additional $14 million in a Series C round led by Emergence Capital and all existing investors, including Alloy Ventures, Sevin Rosen Funds, Cambrian Ventures and Sigma Partners. The round brings YouSendIt’s total to $34 million. YouSendIt is a file delivery service with over 7 million registered users. The funding will be used to grow subscriptions, and to develop… → Read More

June 10th, 2008

YouSendIt Does The Heavy Lifting For Outlook

YouSendIt, an online file transfer service with a focus on businesses, is removing the beta label from an Outlook plugin that automatically reroutes large attachments through its so-called “FedEx for the internet” system. Email accounts tend to place really low caps on attachments – don’t even think about sending 2GB of movies to your friends and expect them to land… → Read More

December 7th, 2006

Three Million Sending It With YouSendIt

File delivery company YouSendIt told TechCrunch yesterday that it had recently surpassed its three millionth user. While our initial experiences with YouSendIt were not smooth, we have since come to consider it quite a good service. We spoke to CEO Ivan Koon today to see what the company has been up to lately. “The real reason behind the press release, aside from just wanting to brag a… → Read More

January 4th, 2006

I finally got "You Send It" to work

I never wrote about You Send It because I could never get it to work. Well, today I had my first positive You Send It experience, and so I’m writing a quick note. If you haven’t heard about it, you can use it to “email” very large files. You upload the file to the site, tell it the email addresses to send the file to, and the recipients receive a link that allows him or her… → Read More