Dropmyemail inks partnership with Japan’s GMO Cloud, inches towards Series A funding

Echelon alumnus, email backup solution Dropmyemail just inked an extensive partnership with GMO Cloud K.K. (GMO Cloud), which is part of Japan’s leading all-in Internet services conglomerate, GMO Internet Group. The partnership will expand the presence of the email backup cloud solution in Japan.

This strategic alliance will see GMO Cloud invest capital in Dropmyemail, resell Dropmyemail to its hosting customers, and jointly develop a Dropmyemail smartphone application. This mutually beneficial agreement will spike the growth trajectory of both companies. Specifically:

1. GMO Cloud will first invest in Dropmyemail by taking part in the convertible note round of funding. Having investment from GMO Cloud benefits Dropmyemail by providing more cash to scale up.
2. GMO Cloud will resell Dropmyemail’s corporate email backup solution, Dropmyemail Business, to its existing business customers.
3. GMO Cloud will also host Dropmyemail’s ever-increasing dataload. Dropmyemail will move its massive storage to GMO Cloud’s cloud platform and utilize GMO Cloud’s GlobalSign’s SSL (secure socket layer). Having GMO Cloud host the data will reduce the current expediture for Dropmyemail and keep the data even more secure, while GMO Cloud gains a new client with fast growing data storage needs.
4. Lastly, GMO Cloud and Dropmysite will co-develop a new smartphone application for Dropmyemail. With the growing worldwide trend of using smartphones to access email on the go, it is necessary to create an app that specifically caters to the backup needs of smartphone users. By combining GMO Cloud’s resources and Dropmyemail’s technical knowledge, the final product should be ready within a relatively short timeframe.

“GMO Cloud is very pleased to be partnering with a service developer and provider as innovative as Dropmysite,” says GMO Cloud, President, Mitsuru Aoyama. “We are confident that the partnership will create new opportunities to introduce new and innovative services.”

“We are delighted to have secured this strategic partnership with GMO Cloud and look forward to working closely with GMO in the future,” says John Fearon, CEO and founder of Dropmyemail.

Dropmyemail actively growing, ramps up presence in Japan

Dropmyemail, the most comprehensive email backup solution in the cloud, currently backs up a quarter of a billion emails a day for nearly a million users. GMO Cloud on the other hand, has 16 subsidiaries spread across 7 countries. The company recently acquired US based Orbitfiles and opened an US office in Dallas to facilitate North American expansion.

With this expansive collaboration with GMO Cloud, Dropmyemail will also ramp up its presence in Japan. Within the next few months, the company will start aggressively hiring to grow the Japan office. The company will have personnel openings for sales, customer service, business development, and more. Besides GMO Cloud, Dropmyemail is also speaking with other companies to create unique partnerships to further entrench itself into the Japanese market. The targets will range widely from Internet Service Providers to mobile companies.

Beyond just this deal in Japan, there are many other similar talks in progress around the world. With a presence in every major region in the world, eventually, Dropmyemail will be seen and used globally. This Japanese deal is a major step forward in the grand scheme of Dropmyemail to eventually back up the Internet.

When asked about its conversion rate from free users to paid users, Dropmyemail responded saying that it is confidential and  that more details will be provided as they approach their Series A funding.