Mimecast
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| Industry |
Information security E-mail archiving File archiving |
| Founded | 2003 |
| Founder | Peter Bauer Neil Murray |
| Headquarters | London, England, UK |
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Key people
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Peter Bauer (CEO) Neil Murray (CTO) Peter Campbell (CFO) Nathaniel Borenstein (Chief Scientist) Ed Jennings (COO) Joe Freitas (VPHR) |
| Products | Unified Email Management integrating Email Security; Enterprise Information Archiving, Mailbox Continuity and Services for Office 365 |
| Website | www.mimecast.com |
Mimecast is an international company specializing in cloud-based email management for Microsoft Exchange and Microsoft Office 365, including security, archiving, and continuity services to protect business mail.
Mimecast was founded in 2003 by Peter Bauer and Neil Murray. It has offices in London, Boston, Chicago, San Francisco, Dallas, Cape Town, Johannesburg and Melbourne.
In January, 2010, the company raised $21 million in Series B financing from Index Ventures and Dawn Capital.
By June 2015 Mimecast had 14,500 customers, up from 7,000 in 2007.
In September 2012 Mimecast raised $62m in a Series C funding round, led by New York-based Insight Venture Partners.
Mimecast co-founder and CEO, Peter Bauer, previously founded FAB Technology in the mid-nineties and sold it to Idion. Earlier, Peter trained as a Microsoft systems engineer and worked with corporate messaging systems.
Mimecast co-founder and CTO is Neil Murray, previously CTO at Global Technology Services and founder of Pro-Solutions, he leads the development of all the company's technology, overseeing the architecture of Mimecast's service and sets out the overall technical vision and strategy for the service.
Other executives include Mimecast Chief Scientist Nathaniel Borenstein, who was amongst the original designers of the MIME protocol for formatting multimedia Internet electronic mail - he sent the world's first e-mail attachment on 11 March 1992.
The service uses a massively-parallel grid infrastructure for email storage and processing through geographically dispersed data centers, enabling it to offer a 100% uptime service level agreement on all services. Its Mail Transfer Agent provides intelligent email routing based on server or user mailbox location.
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