Carbonite was originally focused on photo storage, but in May of 2006 changed paths. They now offer a very competitive internet based backup solution. For $50/year Carbonite will backup all the data on your computer as long as it’s connected to the internet. The service has no upload limits and Carbonite can surely handle all of your data with a datacenter that can hold 1.5 petabytes (1.5 Petabytes = 1,572,864 Gigabytes) of data.

Financials

Date Type Amount Investors Valuation
03/01/06 Series A 2.5M Clearmeadow Partners, Norewest Venture Partners, Carlyle Group Unknown
12/01/06 Series A 3.5M Motorola, Globespan Capital Partners Unknown
05/01/07 Series B 15M General Motors Unknown
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People

David Friend (Board member)

Jeff Flowers (Board member)

Todd Krasnow (Board member)

Jiong Ma (Board member)

Bill Nelson (Board member)

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Competitors

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