What Arkivum does

Arkivum is a UK-based SaaS provider of long-term digital archiving and preservation services, headquartered in London (registered at 85 Great Portland Street) with origins in Reading, and operating since 2011. The company serves enterprise customers in regulated industries — primarily pharmaceutical and life sciences, but also healthcare, scientific research, galleries/libraries/museums, and corporate records — with use cases spanning clinical trial master file (eTMF) retention, laboratory and quality documentation, medical device records, and long-term cultural heritage data. Named customers include Barts Health NHS Trust, Cerevel Therapeutics, Neuraly, Aspire Pharma, and the University of East London.

The company's core product is a microservices-based SaaS platform that combines automated checksum-based data integrity verification, format preservation to defend against obsolescence, multi-location tiered storage, metadata-driven search with structural visualization, and cross-organization secure sharing. Proprietary components include IngestIQ for rapid large-scale migration and a dedicated Migration Service offering. The platform integrates directly with Microsoft Office 365, SharePoint, and OneDrive, and the company holds ISO 27001 (information security) and ISO 9001 (quality management) certifications — credentials that are particularly relevant for GxP-validated life sciences procurement.

Arkivum generates revenue through recurring SaaS subscriptions supplemented by professional services for migration and staff training. The company employs a direct enterprise field sales motion with quote-based pricing, targeting organizations with complex multi-decade retention obligations (25+ years for clinical records under EU Regulation 536/2014). Customer acquisition is supported by a content-driven marketing program that includes blogs, eBooks, webinars, and an annual virtual conference (ArkFest). The company is privately held, has raised approximately $24.5M across eight funding rounds from 2011 to 2021 (with IP Group, Parkwalk Advisors, and Oxford Capital among its backers), and operates with a small team in the 11–50 employee band.

Name

Arkivum

Legal name

Arkivum Limited

Website

https://arkivum.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2011

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Arkivum is a UK-based SaaS provider of long-term digital archiving and preservation for regulated enterprises, primarily pharmaceutical and life sciences organizations, with GxP-validated retention, automated integrity monitoring, and multi-decade format preservation.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Digital Archiving & Preservation Software

NAICS

Libraries and Archives (519210)

SIC

Services-Prepackaged Software (7372)

akta.pro primary industry

Data Protection & Archiving (WORM, Long-Term Retention) (HDABAEAH)

akta.pro secondary industries

Patient Chart Abstraction, Data Migration & EHR Archiving/Decommissioning (HLACAAAM), Backup, Archiving & Ransomware-Resilient Data Protection (HDADAFAL)

Keywords

• Digital archiving software
• Long-term data preservation
• GxP compliance archiving
• Enterprise data archiving
• Digital preservation SaaS

Headquarters

HQ city

Reading

HQ country

United Kingdom

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Technology or R&D, Personnel, Infrastructure, Marketing or Sales, Operations

Revenue model

1. SaaS Subscription: Arkivum operates primarily as a SaaS (Software as a Service) provider offering subscription-based access to their digital archiving and preservation platform. Customers pay for access to the archive solution on a recurring basis.
2. Professional Services: Services include training for staff and managing the data migration process. End-to-end data migration service with minimal customer input is offered as a distinct service offering.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels7 records

Core offering

Arkivum provides a long-term digital archiving and preservation SaaS platform that ensures data is findable, accessible, and legible for decades. The solution offers automated integrity checks, format preservation, tiered storage, metadata search, secure sharing, and migration services, with specific validation for GxP-regulated environments such as pharmaceutical, life sciences, healthcare, cultural heritage, and scientific research.

Product overview

Arkivum offers a unified SaaS platform for long-term digital archiving and preservation. The core Arkivum SaaS Solution provides the foundational archiving capabilities, supplemented by functional modules including Safeguarding (data integrity protection), Preservation (format longevity), Search (metadata-based discovery), Access (permissioned retrieval), and Regulatory (compliance assurance). Supporting services include Migration Service for end-to-end data transfer and IngestIQ for rapid large-scale ingestion. The platform targets four primary industry verticals: Pharmaceutical & Life Sciences (GxP-validated eTMF and clinical data), Galleries/Libraries/Museums, Scientific Research, and Corporate Records & Archives.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Arkivum Trust: Long-term data management and digital preservation solution platform
• IngestIQ
• ArkFest

Products and services

• Arkivum SaaS Solution Core long-term digital archive and preservation SaaS solution for enterprise customers. Ensures data is findable, accessible and legible forever with safeguarding, metadata search, access control, regulatory compliance features, and tiered storage across multiple locations.
• Migration Service End-to-end data migration service delivered by Arkivum staff with minimal customer input, handling transition of customer data into the Arkivum archive. Includes staff training.
• IngestIQ Standalone migration tool enabling large-scale data ingestion into the Arkivum archive in minutes, designed for rapid onboarding of data at scale.
• Pharmaceutical & Life Sciences Solution Validated GxP digital archiving and preservation solution for pharmaceutical and life sciences organisations. Supports eTMF, clinical trial data, medical devices, and laboratory data retention under regulatory mandates including EU Regulation 536/2014 and MHRA.
• Galleries, Libraries & Museums Solution Digital preservation solution for cultural heritage institutions, guaranteeing the long-term access and use of scholarly research and special collections data.
• Scientific Research Solution Digital preservation solution ensuring valuable scientific research data, including end-of-life system data, remains accessible for future use.
• Corporate Records & Archives Solution Digital archiving solution for corporate organisations, preserving digital or digitised assets for long-term accessibility and audit compliance.

Quantifiable outcome

• Automated checksum verification ensures data integrity monitoring across all archived files
• +2 more outcomes

Named customers5 records

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration3 records

Feature6 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Direct peers

• Preservica: UK-based SaaS provider of long-term digital preservation software for archives, regulated industries, and cultural heritage. Closest direct competitor with overlapping regulated vertical focus and SaaS delivery model.
• Tessera (Ex Libris, Clarivate): Digital preservation system widely used by academic and research libraries for long-term content preservation. Competes for the same Galleries, Libraries & Museums and scientific research segments.

Broad incumbents

• OpenText InfoArchive: Large enterprise information management vendor offering archival and content services as part of a much broader ECM portfolio. Competes in regulated industries with broader platform plays.
• Veeva Systems: Cloud content and data management platform purpose-built for life sciences, including Vault for regulated content. Overlaps with Arkivum's pharma/life sciences clinical and quality documentation use cases.
• Hyland (OnBase / Nuxeo): Enterprise content services platform offering document management and retention capabilities to regulated industries. Competes at the broader content services layer above specialised archival.
• Box: Cloud content management platform with retention, compliance, and lifecycle features targeting regulated enterprises. Provides an alternative for customers prioritising general collaboration plus archival.
• IQVIA: Large clinical research services and technology provider with content and data management solutions for trial sponsors. Adjacent overlap in clinical trial data lifecycle and regulatory compliance.

Emerging players

• Archivematica (Artefactual): Open-source digital preservation system widely adopted by cultural heritage institutions and archives. Offers a no-license-cost alternative that competes on capability rather than managed SaaS.
• DuraCloud (LYRASIS): Hosted preservation-as-a-service offering for cultural heritage and academic institutions. Competes for the same GLAM and research customers with cloud-hosted preservation infrastructure.

Others

• Amazon S3 Glacier: Long-term archival storage tier from AWS offering very low-cost object storage. Competes as the underlying technology alternative for price-sensitive archival buyers.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/Arkivum

Compliance2 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles16 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds8 records

Investors5 records

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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