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30 June 2010, Carbonite.com Press Release
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BOSTON, June 30, 2010 — Carbonite ®,
a leading provider of
online backup, announced CEO and
Co-Founder David Friend has been named
winner of the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur
Of The Year ® 2010 Award in New England.
Friend received the honor at a special
gala event on June 24 at the Boston
Renaissance Waterfront Hotel. As a
result of this accomplishment, he now is
competing for the national Entrepreneur
of the Year award, which will be
announced in November.
According to Ernst & Young LLP, the
awards program recognizes entrepreneurs
who demonstrate extraordinary success in
the areas of innovation, financial
performance and personal commitment to
their businesses and communities. Friend
was selected as a winner from nearly 40
finalists by a panel of independent
judges.
"I'm humbled that my friends and
colleagues who nominated me, and the
distinguished E&Y judges who selected
me, deem me worthy of this prestigious
recognition," said Friend. "Carbonite is
my sixth startup since college and each
has been more fun than the last.
Frankly, the rewards of being an
entrepreneur for 40 years have been
enough to make me a very happy man. So
being selected as E&Y Entrepreneur of
the Year is really frosting on the
cake."
Friend has been a successful
technology entrepreneur for more than 25
years. He previously co-founded five
companies: Sonexis, FaxNet, Pilot
Software, Computer Pictures Corp. and
ARP Instruments. At Carbonite, Friend
has driven product innovation and
sustained the company's success by
raising more than $67 million in
capital. Since 2006, Carbonite has
backed up more than 39 billion files,
restored more than 3.2 billion lost
files for its customers, and backs up
more than 100 million files every day.
This honor highlights a league of
significant accomplishments, including:
Carbonite launched its online backup
service for PC owners in 2006. In the
last year, Carbonite enhanced its Remote
File Access features beyond Web browsers
to mobile accessibility through iPhone
®, iPod Touch ® and BlackBerry ®
smartphone devices. In January, the
company raised approximately $20 million
in a mezzanine financing round bringing
total funding to approximately $67
million.
About Carbonite
Carbonite revolutionized the market
for consumer and small-business backup
services with its industry-first
offering of unlimited online backup for
a low, flat price. Since 2006, the
company has backed up more than 80
billion files and has restored more than
7.2 billion lost files for its
million-plus customers. Carbonite, which
was ranked No. 9 overall and No. 1 in IT
Services in the Inc. magazine
2010 Inc. 500 listing, backs up more
than 200 million files every day to
high-redundancy storage servers in its
Boston and Somerville, Mass., data
centers.
The Carbonite mission is to provide a
simple, affordable, and secure backup
and "anytime, anywhere access" solutions
for the mainstream computer user.
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