$147 Million Investment Round for Acronis Led by Goldman Sachs

Acronis International GmbH announced a $147 million investment round led by Goldman Sachs.

The investment round sets the valuation of the company to over one billion dollars and enables it to expand its engineering team in Singapore, Bulgaria and AZ, build additional data centers, and grow through acquisitions.

Additionally, Acronis will use the capital to accelerate the business growth in North America in partnership with Acronis SCS, an independent software vendor and distributor for the public sector.

Founded in Singapore in 2003 and incorporated in Switzerland in 2008, Acronis now has more than 1,400 employees in 18 countries. Its solutions are trusted by more than 5 million consumers and 500,000 businesses, including 80% of the Fortune 1000 companies. Acronis cyber protection products are available through 50,000 partners and service providers in over 150 countries in more than 30 languages.

“We are excited about Goldman Sachs’ investment,” said Serguei Beloussov, founder and CEO. “In 2018, Acronis achieved 20% business growth, and in 2019 it is on track for over 30% growth with the Acronis Cyber Cloud business growing by over 100%. Recently we announced the Acronis Cyber Platform, enabling third-parties to customize, extend, and integrate our cyber protection solutions to the needs of their customers and partners. The investment round led by Goldman Sachs will help us to fast-track the product development through acquisitions of companies and additional resources, and accelerate the growth.”

With the funding round, the firm can increase its engineering capabilities and acquire new teams and technologies to accelerate the development of the Acronis products:
• Cyber Protection solutions for data safety, accessibility, privacy, authenticity, and security.
• Cyber Platform that enables third-party developers to customize, extend and integrate cyber protection into their solutions
• Cyber Infrastructure that provides a cost-efficient and secure environment for running cyber protection solutions and storage.
• Acronis Cyber Architecture that guarantees the privacy of data and gives customers the control of data location.
• Cyber Cloud that enables service providers and enterprise IT to deliver cyber protection services to end customers.

“We are excited to invest in Acronis at this stage of rapid growth,” said Holger Staude, VP, Goldman Sachs Growth. “The traditional backup and data protection market is changing due to an innovative solution delivered efficiently by Acronis Cyber Protection through a vast channel of service providers.“

The investment round will help Acronis to accelerate delivery of the vision of cyber protection, which combines traditional data protection and cybersecurity into one integrated solution addressing all five vectors of Cyber Protection – ensuring the safety, accessibility, privacy, authenticity, and security of data (SAPAS).