As of October 2026, Latka tracks 39 backup software companies. They have combined revenues of $2.3B and employ 13.8K people. They have raised $2.2B and serve 5.2M customers combined.
Every company below sells backup software to other businesses and is ranked by its most recent annual revenue. Revenue, funding, headcount and customer figures come from CEO interviews on the Latka podcast, public company filings, and Latka estimates where a company has not disclosed a number.
Backup software is designed to create copies of data and files to prevent loss due to hardware failures, accidental deletions, or cyber threats. These solutions not only store data securely but also offer functionalities for restoring that data quickly when needed. The primary use cases include disaster recovery, data protection, and compliance management, making it essential for organizations of all sizes to ensure business continuity. Typical features of backup software include automated scheduling, encryption for data security, and the ability to back up important files, folders, or entire systems. This software is predominantly utilized by IT professionals, system administrators, and business continuity planners who require reliable solutions to maintain the integrity of their data assets while minimizing downtime and potential data loss.
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San Jose, California, United States
Our mission at Cohesity is simple: to protect, secure, and provide insights into the world’s data. The largest organizations around the globe rely on us to strengthen their business resilience.
Schaffhausen, Switzerland, Switzerland
Acronis is a provider of backup, recovery and security services for physical, virtual and cloud environments.
Eden Prairie, Minnesota, United States
Arcserve provides exceptional solutions to protect the priceless digital assets of organizations in need of full scale, comprehensive data and ransomware protection. Established in 1983, Arcserve is the world’s most experienced provider of business continuity solutions that safeguard multi-generational IT infrastructures with applications and systems in any location, on premises and in the cloud. Organizations in over 150 countries around the world rely on Arcserve’s highly efficient, integrated technologies and expertise to eliminate the risk of data loss and extended downtime while reducing the cost and complexity of backing up and restoring data by up to 50 percent. Arcserve is headquartered in Minneapolis, Minnesota with locations around the world.
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
At HYCU, we believe that every business should be safe. Our mission is to build a safer world. With our data protection as a service platform, we make it easy for you to move your data freely, easily, and safely without the burden of managing and scaling backup infrastructure.
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
ScalePad enables MSPs to shift from reactive service to strategic impact, using Customer Success as the engine that drives trust, retention, and revenue. Our platform unifies risk insights, client planning, and success delivery, helping MSPs lead smarter conversations, close bigger deals, and show their value with every client.
San Francisco, California, United States
Odaseva is an Enterprise Data Platform that secures and manages Salesforce data for organizations with complex data challenges. Large global companies rely on Odaseva to help them navigate the growth and security of their sensitive and critical data, ensuring business continuity, regulatory compliance, and unlocking the value of their data. Founded in 2012, Odaseva is designed and built specifically to meet the needs of large-scale enterprises, and supports more than 100 million Salesforce users.
Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
CrashPlan provides peace of mind through secure, scalable, and straightforward endpoint data backup. We help organizations recover from any worst-case scenario, whether it is a disaster, simple human error, a stolen laptop, ransomware or an as-of-yet undiscovered calamity. We continue to innovate as the landscape of work evolves, which makes CrashPlan foundational to organizations’ data security. What starts as endpoint backup and recovery becomes a solution for ransomware recovery, breaches, migrations, and legal holds. CrashPlan protects more than 50,000 world-class organizations, including the largest global brands. While having existed as a product for more than a decade, in 2022, CrashPlan separated from our previous corporate parent to exclusively focus on backup and recovery. The company is headquartered in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Latka tracks 39 backup software companies with reported revenue. Together they generate $2.3B in annual revenue and employ 13.8K people.
Cohesity is the largest, with $1.3B in annual revenue, founded in 2013.
The average backup software company in this list makes $58.5M a year, across 39 companies with reported revenue. They serve 5.2M customers combined.
Ranked by annual revenue, the leaders are Cohesity, Acronis, Druva, Arcserve and HYCU.
The 39 backup software companies tracked here have raised $2.2B in disclosed funding between them.
- The software must enable users to create copies of data and files. - It should provide automated backup scheduling to ensure regular data protection. - The solution must allow for the restoration of data in case of loss or corruption. - It should support data encryption to secure sensitive information. - Must offer support for various storage options, including local and cloud-based solutions. - Not just focus on local backups; must also support remote and cloud backup capabilities.
