Hightail

Company

Investment-firm

Last deal

Amount

Secondary Market

Stage

01.04.2014

Date

3

all rounds

$92.7M

Total amount

Financing round

General

About Company
Hightail is a cloud service that facilitates file sharing, synchronization, and digital signing.

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Also Known As

YouSendIt

founded date

01.12.2004

Number of employees

Company Type

For Profit

Last funding type

Secondary Market

IPO status

Private

Description

Hightail is a cloud-based file sharing platform that enables teams of creative professionals to collaborate on visual projects seamlessly. The platform allows for easy sharing, discussing, improving, and approving ideas of all creative file types. Hightail's website and mobile apps provide a flexible user experience that adapts to individual team and project needs. The company's file sharing platform makes content review and approval cycles happen faster, enabling enterprises to synchronize and access content in the cloud and send files, share folders, and sign through from desktop, web, or mobile devices. Hightail is designed to address the unique creative collaboration challenges faced by marketing professionals and the creative teams they work with.
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People

Founders
3

Khalid Shaikh

Khalid Shaikh is a consultant at Telstra, a telecommunications and information services company in Australia. He was previously a technical manager at Align Technology. Among his more notable achievements, is his time as the CEO of [Hightail](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/hightail), a cloud solution that enables creative teams to share files, collect feedback, and take projects from concept to completion, a company he founded. Shaikh holds a bachelor’s degree in computer science from McGill University.

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Hightail

organization founded

1

Khalid Shaikh

Ranjith Kumaran
Ranjith Kumaran

Ranjith Kumaran

Ranjith loves to build great products with long-lasting appeal. Let’s take, for example, Hightail. Ten years ago, he helped create a simple way to send large files that grew into a service used by 45 million people and 150,000 companies worldwide. Now, Ranjith has returned to the company he co-founded, to lead it into the future. Most recently, he was CEO of consumer engagement platform PunchTab, another business he founded and built. He remains on the board of PunchTab. Aside from starting Hightail and PunchTab, Ranjith has held marketing positions at Verisity Design and built sales engineering teams for an algorithms-to-silicon company, Celoxica. He was also a software systems engineer at open-source software distributor, Red Hat. Ranjith has a bachelor of engineering in computer engineering from McGill University, is a charter member of the C100 (an organization supporting Canadian entrepreneurs) and is an active member of entrepreneur network TiE Silicon Valley.

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Notivize

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Ranjith Kumaran

Amir Shaikh
Amir Shaikh

Amir Shaikh

Amir Shaikh is an entrepreneur that has founded ICQProxy, YouSendIt, and most recently Toon Media, InRCom, and Advercore.

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Advercore

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Employee Profiles
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Jeff Schmidt

Jeff Schmidt

SVP Enterprise Sales

Paul Gu

Paul Gu

Strategy & Business Development

Aaron Martin

Aaron Martin

Creative Director

Michael Trigg

Michael Trigg

Chief Operating Officer

Kiersten Hollars

Kiersten Hollars

VP of Corporate Communications

Eric van Miltenburg

Eric van Miltenburg

Sr. VP of Business Development

Lynne Collins

VP of HR

Shiva Paranandi

Shiva Paranandi

VP of Engineering

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