Tehama ( ) is a Canadian Software as a Service (SaaS) company headquartered in

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, that provides a virtual,

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-based, Desktop-as-a-Service (DaaS) platform for the secure exchange of work over the internet, allowing organizations to securely manage remote workers, third-party vendors, and freelancers, and integrate them into their working environments.

History

Tehama began as a suite of virtual desktop, zero-trust network access, auditable secret and file sharing and workflow-automation technologies enabling secure, remote Internet-based work amongst the global workforce and clientele of Pythian, an IT services company founded in 1997. In September 2018, to offer the Tehama platform to the public, CEO and entrepreneur

Paul Vallée Paul Vallée (born 1972) is a Canadian data specialist and businessperson. He is the founder and Chief Executive Officer of Tehama Inc., a company offering a secure virtual-workforce platform in a Software as a Service paradigm. Vallée holds a ...

launched Tehama as a subsidiary business unit of Pythian. In September 2019, in response to a surge in demand for the Tehama platform, the Tehama unit was spun-off as a company in its own right, independent of Pythian. Financing for this venture was provided by the New York-based

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firm Mill Point Capital, which thereby gained a majority stake in Pythian. Vallée left his position at Pythian to become Tehama's CEO. As one of Tehama's core services facilitates remote work, the company saw a notable upswing in interest in March 2020 during the

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crisis, with a 35-fold increase in inquiries from the prior month. By May 2020, having seen its client base grow to more than 150, Tehama announced that it had raised

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10,000,000 through Series A funding round led by OMERS Ventures. In July 2020, Tehama conducted the ''Digital by Default Summit,'' an online virtual conference on the subject of remote work, with particular focus on its greater adoption in the wake of the COVID-19 crisis. The event occurred again in 2021 and featured a closing fireside chat with remote work expert Kate Lister.}

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External links

* {{Official website, https://tehama.io/
Digital By Default Summit
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