Dropsuite

Dropsuite began development under the name Dropmysite in September 2011 when John Fearon’s business website needed a backup solution and he couldn’t find a service that met his needs.[4] Fearon raised $300,000 in a first round of funding on a Singaporean television show called Angel’s Gate.[5] In 2012, he created an email backup service[6] called Dropmyemail.[7] On October 31, 2013, Charif Elansari took over as CEO.[8] In 2014, a smartphone backup service called Dropmymobile was launched.[9]

Dropmysite has local offices in the US, Singapore, Japan and India.[10] It has entered into partnership with Xpress Hosting, a web-hosting company in Mexico for getting access to 100,000 customers and 500,000 domains.[10] Dropmysite has also announced partnerships with GMO Cloud[11] and paperboy[12] in Japan. On October 3, 2015, GoDaddy launched a cloud backup service for websites powered by Dropmysite.[13]

In 2016, the company rebranded under the name Dropsuite.[14] On Dec 29, 2016, the company went public on the Australia Securities Exchange via a backdoor listing.[15] In 2017, Dropsuite entered into a distribution agreement with Ingram Micro.[16] On October 22, 2018, Dropsuite entered into a cloud distribution partnership with Pax8.[3] In 2019, DSD Europe announced a partnership with Dropsuite and is adding Dropsuite’s Microsoft Office 365 Cloud backup and email backup to their cloud backup services.[17]

The management team consists of people of different continents including Asia, Africa, and North America and Australia.

• Chairman—Theo Hnarakis[18]
• Non-Executive Director—Bruce Tonkin
• CTO—Ron Hart
• CEO—⁣Charif El-Ansari[19]
• COO—⁣Ridley Ruth[20]

Dropsuite Limited (ASX:DSE) is a publicly listed company on the Australian Securities Exchange.[2] Originally, Dropmysite is a privately held technology startup that received seed funding for from Crystal Horse Investments, Stanley Street Labs and a few angel investors.[21]