The Unicorn; Datto; 独角兽企业; 134/174

The Unicorn; Datto; 独角兽企业; 134/174


134.Datto

Company Information

Valuation $1 billion
Sector Software
Headquarters Norwalk, Conn.
Founded 2007
CEO Austin McChord

Datto, Inc.

Datto, Inc., is a Connecticut (U.S.) company that provides products and services for hybrid cloud business continuity, planning and disaster recovery.

OverviewDatto was founded in 2007 by Austin McChord. Datto manages over 200 petabytes of data off-site across the US, Canada, Australia, and the UK. Datto employs over 500 full-time employees between their various locations around the world. Datto’s US technical support, development, and sales operations are run from the Norwalk, CT site and device assembly is performed in the Monroe, CT site. Datto invests heavily in their Customer Service departments (maintaining over 70% employment in R&D/Support). Datto offers a wide variety of solutions specifically designed to accommodate any type of business. Using their solutions like SIRIS, Alto/XL, and Datto NAS, the company works with clients ranging from small business up through the enterprise space, delivering across a wide range of vertical markets including: healthcare, financial, education, banking, legal, manufacturing, retail, and municipal.

In December 2014, Datto acquired Backupify, a Cambridge based SAAS application backup solution. With the merger, Datto’s Business Continuity product portfolio expanded into the cloud to cloud backup market.

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