![]() ![]() I would say that’s a pretty good signal when people say, hey, where can I send us some money? Right? Evidently, yes. And then we grew the team and started the journey. Okay, there might be potential for product and for a company based on this encryption, and so we focused on it, we, we added more features to BOXCRYPTOR. And this was also one of the signals we got from the market that we knew. How can I donate money? Do you have a PayPal address? I would like to send you some money that you continue with the development. And then we got emails, even from people from the US, for example, who said, Oh, I like this product or this product or this project. And the journey was in the beginning the product was available for free. So back then we knew okay, we are not the only ones who had this issue. And within a week, 1000 people downloaded and installed the software. So we made a post and said, Hey, by the way, we’ve developed an encryption software for Dropbox, if you would like to test it yesterday. And to get first market feedback on it, we put the alpha version online in the Dropbox forum. And as we couldn’t find a solution that matched our needs, we developed our very own very, very first prototype. So we looked out, how can we encrypt files. And in combination with my background, we knew that just putting our information, our company information, our customer information in the cloud without additional security is not the best idea to do. So from a technical aspect, we were sure we want to use like state of the art storage solution, we want to use Dropbox. You know, that being in in a company what I guess what really took you over the edge of saying, like, we’ve got this problem, but now we need to get out there and solve it.Īnd so from the background, I’ve studied law and economics, my co founder, he started computer science. So you’ve been doing this for 10 years, you said, right? And we very recently added encryption for Microsoft teams as well. So BOXCRYPTOR is encrypting, for example Dropbox, but also Google Drive SharePoint. We developed BOXCRYPTOR and brought the product to market by ourselves. And after there was no such solution available on the market. So we still wanted to be able to share files to access files from different devices to work together from different places and still use encryption. And back then 10 years ago, there was no good encryption solution, which allowed us to use Dropbox without giving up comfort. And therefore we wanted to store files in Dropbox. But when we became founders 10 years ago, we wanted to start a different company. And encrypted software, it’s nothing new, like ancient cultures used encryption, or ciphertext to encrypt the messages. And BOXCRYPTOR is an encryption software. And I started BOXCRYPTOR 10 years ago, together with my co founder, Robert. So tell us, tell us a bit about the company. So very cool to have international founders on. You’re you’re coming in from Germany near Munich. You hear the stories of you know, people’s iCloud accounts getting hacked and all that. So there’s a topic that everybody deals with everyone uses cloud storage today. And BOXCRYPTOR is the market leader for security solutions in the arena of Cloud Storage. ![]() ![]() So this week, we have Andrea Pfundmeier, she’s the founder of BOXCRYPTOR. So always cool to talk to people who have really cool things in the works, exciting technologies. ![]() Yeah, it was cool, you know, unique show that we were able to do and to see new ideas and innovation was exciting. And we had a winner of our pitch contest, which was fun. I know you did that one from the mountains. Andy, we are coming back after having our big tech throwdown. I’m Tony Zayas your co host, joined by Andy Halko. Welcome to the set on a tech founders show almost at SaaS founders show that our, plans to show up on our tech founder show. SaaS Founder Interview with Andrea Pfundmeier, Co-Founder of Boxcryptor ![]()
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