Name

Arctera

Legal name

Arctera

Website

https://www.arctera.io/

Company type

Private

Founded year

2024

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1,001–5,000 employees

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Enterprise Compliance Software

NAICS

Computing Infrastructure Providers, Data Processing, Web Hosting, and Related Services (51821), Computing Infrastructure Providers, Data Processing, Web Hosting, and Related Services (518210)

SIC

Services-Computer Processing & Data Preparation (7374), Services-Prepackaged Software (7372)

akta.pro primary industry

Content Governance, Compliance, Retention & eDiscovery (HDAEAGAJ)

akta.pro secondary industry

Cloud Compliance, Audit & Continuous Controls Monitoring (CCM/GRC) (HDABAHAI)

Keywords

• Data compliance platform
• Enterprise data governance
• Communications archiving
• Regulatory compliance software
• EDiscovery solutions

Headquarters

HQ city

Pleasanton

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. Subscription/SaaS Revenue: Arctera generates revenue primarily through SaaS subscription model (Arctera Unified Platform). The company generates over $400 million in annual revenue with adjusted EBITDA margins exceeding 40%. Transitioning legacy customers to the new unified SaaS platform represents a land-and-expand opportunity.
2. Enterprise Software Licenses: Products like Backup Exec 25.1 represent data protection software that may include perpetual or term licensing components for on-premises deployments alongside SaaS offerings.

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

Arctera delivers a cloud-native unified compliance platform that combines capture, archiving, classification, surveillance, and eDiscovery into a single SaaS service. The platform integrates with 130+ data sources (including Microsoft Teams, Slack, Bloomberg, Zoom, and ChatGPT) to preserve complete interaction context for regulated enterprises. Supporting products include Enterprise Vault (compliance and governance), Backup Exec 25.1 (data protection for SMBs), and Arctera InfoScale (hybrid cloud storage resilience).

Product overview

Arctera offers a unified platform architecture combining multiple compliance and data management products. The core offering is the Arctera Unified Platform (cloud SaaS) which integrates Capture, Archive, Supervise, and Discover modules for end-to-end compliance workflows. Supporting products include Enterprise Vault (standalone compliance and governance business unit), Backup Exec 25.1 (data protection software for SMBs), and InfoScale (storage resilience for hybrid cloud). The platform integrates with 130+ data sources including Microsoft Teams, Slack, Bloomberg, Zoom, and ChatGPT. AI capabilities include anomaly detection, natural language processing for classification, and process automation across the compliance lifecycle.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Arctera Unified Platform Cloud-native unified compliance platform offered as SaaS, combining capture, archiving, classification, surveillance, and eDiscovery capabilities into a single service. Designed for enterprises in regulated industries (financial services, healthcare, government, education) that need to govern data across 130+ communication, collaboration, financial, and AI tool integrations.
• Enterprise Vault Data and communications compliance and governance software that operates as a standalone business unit within Cloud Software Group, serving regulated environments with long-term archiving, retention, and discovery capabilities.
• Backup Exec 25.1 Data protection software for SMBs and virtualized environments, providing backup and restore across Windows Server, Microsoft 365, and ransomware-resilient storage options.
• Arctera InfoScale Storage resilience and performance solution designed for hybrid cloud workloads, demonstrated with NVMe/TCP storage integration and Red Hat OpenShift compatibility for enterprise data infrastructure.

Quantifiable outcome

• 130+ data source integrations without data movement or duplication
• +1 more outcomes

Named customers1 record

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles5 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration5 records

AI capability4 records

Feature6 records

Partnerships

Two partnerships are on record, tiered core.

• Kahuna LabscoreTechnology or Integration · 6 May 2026Cloud Software Group is deploying Kahuna AI, an AI platform from Kahuna Labs, across its enterprise software portfolio starting with Citrix and expanding to TIBCO, Infoscale, and Arctera. The AI system captures troubleshooting patterns from historical cases to provide real-time contextual guidance to support teams.
• Lightbits LabscoreTechnology or Integration · 10 November 2025Arctera and Lightbits Labs announced a collaboration to demonstrate resilient storage solutions for Red Hat OpenShift at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2025. The joint demonstration featured Lightbits' NVMe/TCP storage integrated with Arctera InfoScale to enhance performance and resilience for hybrid cloud workloads.

Scale indicators7 records

Recent moves8 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Broad incumbents

• Commvault: Commvault provides enterprise data protection and information management, with overlapping backup, archiving, and compliance capabilities compared to Arctera's Backup Exec and information governance lines.
• Mimecast: Mimecast offers email archiving and compliance alongside security, serving similarly regulated customers and competing with parts of Arctera's archive/supervise module set.
• Proofpoint: Proofpoint provides email security, archiving, and compliance/supervision capabilities for regulated enterprises, overlapping with Arctera's supervision, eDiscovery, and information archiving use cases.
• Microsoft Purview: Microsoft Purview is a broad incumbent offering data governance, compliance, and eDiscovery natively within the Microsoft 365 ecosystem, competing with Arctera's capture/archive modules where customers rely on Teams and Office.
• Veritas Technologies: Veritas is the predecessor entity whose Enterprise Data Protection division formed Arctera; it remains a broad data protection and information governance incumbent comparable in offerings and customers.
• Open Text (Micro Focus): Open Text is a broad enterprise content management and compliance suite vendor with overlapping ECM, archiving, and regulated-industry customer base to Arctera.

Direct peers

• Global Relay: Global Relay provides unified communications archiving, surveillance, and eDiscovery for financial services and other regulated firms, with similar capture and supervision workflows to Arctera's Unified Platform.
• Smarsh: Smarsh is a direct competitor providing communications capture, archiving, and supervision for regulated industries (financial services, healthcare, government), addressing the same compliance buyer personas as Arctera.

Emerging players

• Cohesity: Cohesity was the other half of Arctera's 2024 formation and continues to operate in adjacent data protection/security, sharing common origin technology and overlapping regulated-enterprise customers.
• Zapproved: Zapproved is a SaaS-focused eDiscovery provider for corporate legal and compliance teams, competing with Arctera's Discover module in regulated and enterprise segments.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Subsidiaries1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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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