Media Coverage

Media Coverage

Accellion in the News

  • January 05, 2012

    Accellion Inc. sold equity to raise $12.2 million, according to a regulatory filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission last month. The company offered new details on Wednesday about the "Series 3" funding announcement, which came from Menlo Park-based Riverwood Capital, a technology-focused private equity firm.

  • January 05, 2012

    Cloud file sharing company Accellion has raised $12 million in its third round of funding, with a goal of rapidly growing its mobile file-sharing solutions and international presence, the company announced on 1/4/2011.

  • January 05, 2012

    Accellion Inc. sold equity to raise $12.2 million, according to a regulatory filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission last month. The company offered new details on Wednesday about the "Series 3" funding announcement, which came from Menlo Park-based Riverwood Capital, a technology-focused private equity firm.

  • January 05, 2012

    Accellion Inc., a Palo Alto, Calif.-based provider of cloud-based file-sharing services, has raised $12 million in third-round funding from Riverwood Capital. The company previously raised over $20 million from firms like Baring Private Equity Partners.

  • January 05, 2012

    Enterprise cloud file sharing company Accellion has raised $12 million in a new Series 3 round from private equity firm Riverwood Capital. The company will use the additional funding to accelerate growth, invest in enterprise mobile file sharing products, pursue partnerships and international expansion.

  • November 15, 2011

    Accellion mobile app allows users to connect to Accellion Secure Workspaces, a cloud-storage service, to securely view remote files. Unlike Dropbox and other cloud storage services, Accellion lets users browse and view files and securely send files to others.

  • November 02, 2011

    The ability to share files and collaborate through a range of computing devices is fast becoming a standard in every attorney's virtual toolkit. The rocket rise of the free file-sharing service DropBox in the legal community underscores this trend. This summer's headline-grabbing snafu that left the files of users of that service accessible for hours with any password threw a spotlight on the potential security risks posed by such consumer services.

  • November 02, 2011

    The line between work and play just got a little blurrier, and the potential for a data breach a lot higher, with the launch of Apple’s iCloud. If you are unfamiliar with iCloud, it is a set of free cloud services, including iTunes in the Cloud, Photo Stream and Documents in the Cloud, that work with an iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, Mac or PC to store content in iCloud.

  • October 31, 2011

    Despite monumental enterprise efforts to secure information, data breaches continue to top headlines, in part because of the way employees collaborate and share data. What's needed are enterprise-level secure collaboration tools.

  • October 31, 2011

    The week of the Box user conference in late September, as co-founder and CEO Aaron Levie strutted the stage making wisecracks about Box's superiority over SharePoint, Accellion founder and CEO Yorgen Edholm and chief marketing officer Paula Skokowski were watching the webcast and groaning.

  • September 29, 2011

    Accellion, a provider of enterprise-class, secure collaboration and file sharing offerings, and MobileIron, a provider of enterprise management and security for mobile devices and apps, have partnered to help enterprises secure, manage and monitor mobile devices and the data shared via these devices.

  • September 08, 2011

    Accellion’s iPad app provides secure mobile access to files stored in Accellion Secure Workspaces, letting users who have an Accellion Secure Collaboration account browse their workspaces, securely send and share files, share folders, subscribe to notifications and collaborate in real time on shared files with internal and external partners. Files and folders can be organized into views defined by a business.

  • August 22, 2011

    With summer in full swing, employees across the country are heading out on vacation; likely topping their list of items to pack, mobile devices such as iPads, iPhones, Androids and BlackBerries.

  • July 20, 2011

    Earlier this month Accellion has released Android and BlackBerry versions of their Mobile Apps suite that were previously available just for iOS devices. Like MobileEcho and Rover, they provide mechanisms for enterprise mobile users to securely exchange information and collaborate from their smartphones.

  • July 14, 2011

    "It's about the whole nature by which people are sharing information, becoming more collaborative," says Skokowski. "Sharing, sending and syncing files all involve the exchange of information between internal and external people, and all have potential security and compliance risks.

  • July 13, 2011

    Earlier this month Accellion has released Android and BlackBerry versions of their Mobile Apps suite that were previously available just for iOS devices.

  • June 22, 2011

    There are data security implications, as well. "Mobile devices such as iPads, iPhones, and BlackBerries have grown more sophisticated and are penetrating the workplace in increasing numbers, enabling access to information from anywhere, anytime on nearly any device," Paula Skokowski, chief marketing officer of Accellion, tells DBTA. "IT departments need to get ahead of the issue of how employees share information and collaborate otherwise users are left to find their own alternative solutions to share information and collaborate. Organizations are putting themselves at risk for a data breach or non-compliance, as users look to unsecure IT workarounds for sharing digital files such as dropbox-type of applications, instant messaging, thumb drives, and CDs."

  • June 20, 2011

    Accellion is no stranger to these requirements; they’ve been building and hosting collaborative services and solutions for more than a decade and they’ve come to understand intimate aspects of IT perspectives from 1,100+ clients who depend on Accellion to defend their organizations and data from prying eyes, hackers, and threats.

    Executives at Accellion are clearly in touch with real-world business requirements and while listening to their customer base, they began to sense the emerging interest in mobile access to documents within their Secure Collaboration product, a web-only client until recently. Accellion for iPad and iPhone/iPodTouch debuted in the App Store recently. Fucntionally, these apps are identcal with some slight differences pertaining to screen size.

  • June 19, 2011

    Accellion is a sort of "Dropbox for enterprise" service that provides a set of security features poised to help IT managers sleep better at night. But what about mobile access? One of the key advantages to using an app like Dropbox is that I can access my files on Android and iOS devices.

    This week, Accellion released its iOS version, bringing mobility to the secure file storage system.

  • June 15, 2011

    Unless you have been living on Mars for the last few years, you have heard about cloud-based storage. What you don't hear is the collective tension of IT managers everywhere as they think about sensitive corporate assets being stored outside the firewall.

    IT departments everywhere continue to fight a losing a battle. Whether it's SkyDrive or iCloud or Box.Net or Dropbox or S3, users will find ways to gain access to their files regardless of what safeguards are implemented.
    These issues have only escalated with the proliferation of smartphones and the arrival of tablets.

    When Accellion (news, site) initially announced its secure cloud storage offering, IT leaders thought there was finally a solution that met both security and user experience needs. Accellion takes the platform to the next step by making it available for the iPad and the iPhone.