After being in stealth mode for about six months, FileTrek announced Wednesday that it's raised $10 million in new funding, led by Anthem Venture Partners, to enter the cloud-file sharing services companies, such as Box and DropBox, which are growing like gangbusters.
"With DropBox and Box, you can access data from multiple points and different devices," said Dale Quayle, the newly-appointed CEO of FileTrek, in an interview with me. Prior to joining FileTrek last September, Quayle was CEO of Integrien before he sold the company to VMWare.
"[But] what happens if you send it to a CD or a thumbdrive or the community you've created in the share file? We keep track of all of that stuff," said Quayle. "The problem isn’t in the sharing of information and accessing it, it’s understanding what happens to it when it gets out of the box."
Watch my interview with Quayle as he explains why FileTrek is entering this space, and how it plans to work with channel partners to get its product into the market. Some potential partners include Documentum, which was acquired by EMC in 2003 for $1.7billion, FileNet, which was acquired by IBM in 2006 for $1.6B, and Microsoft’s SharePoint. Quayle also talks about how FileTrek started in 2001 and pivoted.
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FileTrek Software Inc. is a provider of mobile content management and tracking solutions for complete visibility of sharing, syncing and versioning activities on the desktop and in the cloud.
The solution combines enterprise-class file sharing and innovative tracking technology to solve the modern dilemma of data sprawl. FileTrek provides secure file sharing, collaboration, and the ability for businesses to track content and data – all within a unified system.
FileTrek is transparent to users and can be scaled across thousands of mobile devices to maximize individual and workgroup activity. The innovative technology has evolved to provide the enterprise with the ability to know the location of file, who has worked on it, the various changes that have been made to it, and how files within a project are related.
The company is a privately funded with corporate headquarters in Ottawa, Canada and a regional office in Los Angeles, CA.
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Dale Quayle is a veteran of the Enterprise Software industry and has been helping customers take advantage of innovative new solutions to address complex enterprise problems for over 25 years.
