Smarsh is a multinational "
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" (SaaS) company headquartered in
Portland, Oregon
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, with nine offices worldwide including locations in,
New York,
Redwood City, California
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,
Boston
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,
Raleigh, North Carolina
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,
London
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and
Bangalore, India
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.
The company provides comprehensive
archiving and has compliance, supervision and
e-discovery solutions for companies in highly regulated industries, including public sector and financial services.
History
The company was founded in
Brooklyn
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,
New York in 2001. The founder, Stephen Marsh, believed that the financial industry needed a better way to archive, store, and regulate its data as regulations required.
In 2004, the company relocated its headquarters to Portland, Oregon.
In 2012,
Quest Software, which owned 60% of Smarsh, was sold to
Dell Computer.
[ In 2013, Dell sold its stake to California investment firm Toba Capital.][
In 2015, the company used its social media archiving tools to assist with a study on the use of social media by adolescents. Smarsh was contracted by CNN to host a secure server where social media use by participating students was monitored and analyzed. The Anderson Cooper 360° special report, ''#Being13: Inside the Secret World of Teens'', was released in October 2015, and won an ]Emmy Award
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in the News and Documentary category.
Acquisitions
Smarsh has acquired a number of companies since its start in 2001. In 2008, it acquired the Connecticut-based CentraScan LLC, an email management service and the California-based Financial Visions Inc., a website compliance company.cloud
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-based instant message archiving company, in 2015, and in December 2016, it acquired MobileGuard, a mobile communication monitoring and retention provider.[ In 2017, Smarsh acquired London-based company, Cognia, to improve Smarsh’s voice communication capabilities for mobile and landline devices. In 2018, K1 Investment Management acquired Actiance Inc. Shortly after the acquisition, Actiance was integrated into the Smarsh brand. In 2020, Smarsh acquired Entreda, an integrated cybersecurity risk and compliance management software and services company, which will continue to operate under its own brand as a stand-alone, wholly owned subsidiary of Smarsh.
]
Awards and recognition
Smarsh has been named to the Inc. 5000 list of fastest growing private companies in America consecutively from 2008 through 2022.
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