Runbox

Runbox
Privately held company (AS)
Industry Email Service Provider
Founded 2011
Headquarters Oslo, Norway
Key people
 Dag Asheim, Chairman of the Board;
Geir Thomas Andersen, Managing Director
Services Runbox Mail Manager
Website runbox.com

Coordinates: 59°56′43.92″N 10°46′40.96″E / 59.9455333°N 10.7780444°E / 59.9455333; 10.7780444

Runbox Solutions AS is a company that provides e-mail and web hosting services worldwide. Runbox Solutions was founded in March 2011 and is headquartered in Oslo, where the Runbox services were launched in 2000. Mainly employee-owned, Runbox Solutions works closely with, and is partially owned by, Copyleft Solutions AS.

History

  • 10 October 1999: Runbox AS founded
  • 16 August 2000: the free e-mail service Runbox Mail Manager launched, pioneering online storage of e-mail with offering of 100 MB storage space and e-mail consolidation tools
  • March 2001 Runbox Mail Manager reached 130,000 registered accounts, increasing by 1300 per day
  • 7 October 2001: Runbox Mail Manager was converted from a free e-mail service to a subscription-based service, three percent of free users converted to paid service
  • 1 July 2004: e-mail storage space increased to 1 GB[1]
  • 21 January 2005: e-mail hosting services launched[2]
  • 28 September 2005: e-mail storage space increased to 10 GB[3]
  • 25 March 2011: Runbox Solutions AS founded by former employees and key people in Runbox AS[4]
  • 1 June 2011: Runbox e-mail services acquired by Runbox Solutions AS from Runbox AS, now renamed to Internet Upside AS[5]
  • 14 June 2011: e-mail servers moved to a facility provided by Digiplex and Copyleft Solutions, the company now managing the Runbox servers

Financial status

The company is backed by Dag Asheim, former and current employees, and Copyleft Solutions AS.[6] Runbox AS lost money for the 2008, 2009, and 2010 financial years.[7] In May 2011 it was bought out by staff and key personnel, and a new company, Runbox Solutions AS formed.[8][9]

Services

The core Runbox e-mail service consists of open source components and a web application developed by Runbox and Redpill Linpro with funding from The Research Council of Norway.[10] Being located in Norway, Runbox attracted renewed attention in light of the surveillance debate of 2013[11] and subsequently experienced substantial growth.[12]

References

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