Mimecast


Mimecast is an international company specializing in cloud-based email management for Microsoft Exchange and Microsoft Office 365, including security, archiving, and continuity services to protect business mail.
The company has 12 global offices with over 1,800 employees. Mimecast has surpassed 36,900 customers and is NASDAQ-listed.

History

Mimecast was founded in 2003 by Peter Bauer and Neil Murray. It has offices in London, Boston, Chicago, San Francisco, Dallas, Cape Town, Johannesburg, Melbourne, Amsterdam, Munich and Israel.
In January, 2010, the company raised $21 million in Series B financing from Index Ventures and Dawn Capital.
In September 2012 Mimecast raised $62m in a Series C funding round, led by New York-based Insight Venture Partners.
On October 16, 2015 Mimecast announced that it filed its registration statement for a proposed Initial Public Offering. Mimecast began trading on the Nasdaq Global Select Market under the ticker symbol “MIME” on November 19, 2015. The offering closed on November 24, 2015.
As of February 2018 Mimecast has 29,200 customers globally. Up from 14,500 customers in 2015.
On July 10, 2018, Mimecast acquired cybersecurity training start up Ataata.
On July 31, 2018, Mimecast acquired Solebit for $88 million.
In 2018, Mimecast was named a Top Place to Work by the Boston Globe and the Boston Business Journal. Additionally, the company was a Top Rated Cloud Software Employer on Glassdoor.
In May 2019, Mimecast announced it had exceeded 34,000 customers globally and 296 billion e-mails under management.
On July 23, 2019, Mimecast was named a Best Workplace to Give Back by GoodCompany in recognition of ongoing citizenship and charitable efforts.
On November 14, 2019, Mimecast acquired DMARC Analyzer, a SaaS-based solution provider that offers user-friendly Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting and Conformance setup, management and analysis.
On January 6, 2020, Mimecast acquired Segasec, a provider of digital threat protection.

Founding

Mimecast co-founder and CEO, Peter Bauer, previously founded FAB Technology in the mid-nineties and sold it to Idion. Earlier, Peter trained as a Microsoft systems engineer and worked with corporate messaging systems.
Mimecast co-founder and CTO is Neil Murray, previously CTO at Global Technology Services and founder of Pro-Solutions, he leads the development of all the company's technology, overseeing the architecture of Mimecast's service and sets out the overall technical vision and strategy for the service.
Other executives include Mimecast Chief Scientist Nathaniel Borenstein, who was amongst the original designers of the MIME protocol for formatting multimedia Internet electronic mail - he sent the world's first e-mail attachment on 11 March 1992.

Technology

The service uses a massively-parallel grid infrastructure for email storage and processing through geographically dispersed data centers, enabling it to offer a 100% uptime service level agreement on all services. Its Mail Transfer Agent provides intelligent email routing based on server or user mailbox location.
Email Security
Enterprise Information Archiving
Mailbox Continuity