Foldr

What Foldr does

Foldr is a hybrid storage and file-management platform developed and operated by Minnow IT Ltd, a privately-held UK company registered in Bristol (Company No. 07970411) and active since 2012. The product connects users to storage they have already invested in — SMB shares, OneDrive, SharePoint, Microsoft Teams, Azure, Google Drive, Dropbox, Box and Amazon S3 — without requiring data migration, and exposes a unified cross-backend interface for browsing, searching, editing and sharing files from Mac, Windows, iOS, Android and the web. A defining capability is Cloud Drive Mount, which maps cloud storage as a native drive letter on desktop without sync agents or "online only" placeholders.

The platform is organised as nine surfaces — Files, Search, Grace (an AI agent for Q&A, reconciliation and summarisation that operates within each user's permission model), Share (links, hand-in folders, branded client portals via Folio, email-to-folder inboxes), Foldr Sign (e-signature with templates and audit trail), Forms, Captur (document data extraction with OCR), Governance (multi-step approvals and tamper-evident audit) and MaSH (plain-text scripting) — with Foldr Flow bundling these into portable .foldr-flow files deployable across instances. Foldr is offered as UK-hosted SaaS with UK/EU data residency or as a self-hosted virtual appliance supporting air-gapped installations on VMware, Hyper-V, Nutanix AHV, Proxmox, KVM and cloud accounts.

Foldr's revenue model is subscription-based (monthly or annual SaaS, plus self-hosted subscriptions), with a product-led acquisition motion anchored by a 30-day free trial (no credit card required) and quote-based pricing. The company targets three primary segments — education (especially schools migrating to Microsoft 365), businesses with fragmented storage estates, and managed service providers managing file infrastructure across multiple client tenants — distributing through direct SaaS, direct self-hosted enterprise sales and an MSP channel enabled by Flow packaging and Folio branded portals.

Name

Foldr

Legal name

Minnow IT Ltd

Website

https://foldr.io

Company type

Private

Founded year

2012

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Foldr is a UK-based hybrid storage and file-management platform that unifies browsing, search, sharing and governance across existing storage backends (OneDrive, SharePoint, SMB, S3, Google Drive, Dropbox, Box) without data migration. It serves schools, businesses and managed service providers via SaaS or self-hosted deployment.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Bristol

HQ country

United Kingdom

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. SaaS Subscription: Cloud-hosted subscription service with 30-day free trial, no credit card required. Includes SSO, LDAP/Entra group sync, audit log, and continuous deploys. UK/EU data residency.
2. Self-hosted Deployment: Self-hosted virtual appliance deployment for VMware, Hyper-V, Nutanix AHV, Proxmox, KVM, or cloud accounts. Supports air-gapped installs and brings own AD/ADFS/Entra ID.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

Foldr is a hybrid storage and user management platform that connects users to existing storage investments (SMB, OneDrive, SharePoint, S3, NAS, Google Drive, Dropbox, Box) without migrating files, exposing a single UI to browse, search, edit and share on desktop, mobile and web. The platform combines nine surfaces—Files, Search, Grace AI, Share, Sign, Forms, Captur, Governance and MaSH—plus Flow (portable workflow packaging) and Folio (branded client portals), delivered as UK-hosted SaaS or a self-hosted virtual appliance.

Product overview

Foldr is a hybrid storage and user management platform that connects users to their existing storage infrastructure. The platform follows a nine-surface architecture with Foldr Files as the core product, augmented by Search, Grace AI, Share, Sign, Forms, Captur, Governance, and MaSH modules. The platform offers both SaaS deployment (hosted in the UK) and self-hosted deployment options via virtual appliance for VMware, Hyper-V, Nutanix AHV, Proxmox, KVM, or cloud accounts. Key add-on capabilities include Flow for workflow distribution and Folio for branded client portals.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Grace AI: AI agent that answers questions, runs reconciliations and creates summary documents, operating inside the permissions model.
• MaSH
• Captur
• Foldr Sign
• Folio
• Foldr Flow

Products and services

• Foldr Files Core file browser that lets users browse, preview, edit and organise files across every connected storage backend (SMB, OneDrive, SharePoint, S3, NAS, Google Drive, Dropbox, Box) from one window on Mac, Windows, iOS, Android and web. Aimed at schools, businesses and MSPs that have files spread across multiple storage systems.
• Foldr Search Full-text search surface that queries every connected storage backend, with OCR for scanned documents, custom-field filters, barcode lookup and ACL-aware results. Targeted at organisations that need a single search experience across heterogeneous storage.
• Grace AI AI agent that answers natural-language questions about files, runs reconciliations, summarises content, finds related documents, extracts fields and translates, while operating only inside the user's existing permissions model. Designed for schools, businesses and MSPs that need AI-augmented file work without leaking cross-tenant data.
• Foldr Share Sharing surface providing public links with passwords and expiry, hand-in folders, branded client portals (Folio) and email-to-folder inboxes, enabling one sharing experience for the public, partners, students and clients across any connected storage backend.
• Foldr Sign E-signature module that lets users send PDFs for signature with templates, reminders, expiry and a tamper-evident audit trail; signed documents land back in the originating folder with no third-party portal and no per-document fees. Targeted at businesses replacing DocuSign/Adobe Sign workflows.
• Foldr Forms Form-building module that lets users build forms, publish public links or distribute to named recipients; every response lands as a file in a chosen folder with answers written to custom fields and indexed for search. Aimed at intake use cases such as supplier diligence packs, onboarding packs and student hand-ins.
• Captur Document capture and data-extraction module that reads text-based PDFs directly and applies OCR to scans, with templates available for high-volume identical layouts; used to automate invoice processing and other document-heavy workflows.
• Foldr Governance Governance and compliance module providing multi-step approvals, reviewer pools per share, self-escalating deadlines and a tamper-evident audit trail; auto-classifies files by sensitivity and routes risky ones for review. Targeted at regulated and audit-driven businesses.
• MaSH (Management and Scripting Hook) Plain-text automation scripting module that classifies, routes, reconciles and reaches out to external systems (CRM, email) based on file events; scripts are schedulable, event-triggerable and bundleable into Flows. Aimed at IT teams that need to wire storage events into business systems.
• Foldr Flow Workflow packaging format that bundles shares, custom fields, Captur templates, MaSH automations and saved searches into a single portable .foldr-flow file that can be dragged onto any Foldr instance to deploy the same workflow—primarily used by MSPs and multi-site organisations.
• Folio (Branded Client Portals) Branded client-portal feature that lets organisations share files with external clients under their own branding (e.g. 'Acme & Partners' welcome screen with branded upload areas and recent files listings); powers the supplier diligence and onboarding flows shown on the company website.
• Foldr Cloud Drive Desktop drive product that mounts OneDrive, SharePoint, Teams, Google Drive, Dropbox, Box, S3 and SMB shares as a real drive on Mac and Windows with no sync agent and no online-only placeholders, while still running on the Foldr unified UI; targeted at schools and businesses migrating to Microsoft 365 while keeping traditional drive-on-desktop workflows.

Quantifiable outcome

• Files don't have to move—connects to existing storage investments without migration

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration9 records

AI capability7 records

Feature9 records

Partnerships

Nine partnerships are on record, tiered core.

• Microsoft OneDrivecoreTechnology or IntegrationFoldr integrates with Microsoft OneDrive, allowing users to browse, search, edit and share OneDrive files through the Foldr unified interface.
• Microsoft SharePointcoreTechnology or IntegrationFoldr integrates with Microsoft SharePoint, providing unified access to SharePoint libraries alongside other connected storage backends.
• Microsoft TeamscoreTechnology or IntegrationFoldr integrates with Microsoft Teams, enabling file access and sharing through the Foldr platform.
• Microsoft AzurecoreTechnology or IntegrationFoldr leverages Microsoft Azure for its SaaS deployment with UK/EU data residency.
• Google DrivecoreTechnology or IntegrationFoldr integrates with Google Drive, providing unified file management across Google Drive alongside other storage backends.
• DropboxcoreTechnology or IntegrationFoldr integrates with Dropbox, enabling access to Dropbox files through the unified Foldr interface.
• BoxcoreTechnology or IntegrationFoldr integrates with Box (box.com), providing unified file management across Box storage.
• Amazon S3coreTechnology or IntegrationFoldr integrates with Amazon S3, allowing S3 buckets to be accessed through the Foldr platform alongside other storage backends.
• SMB / Network SharescoreTechnology or IntegrationFoldr connects to SMB/network shares including NAS devices, providing unified management of on-premises file storage alongside cloud storage.

Scale indicators2 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• Egnyte: Egnyte is a hybrid enterprise file sharing and content governance platform that connects to on-premises and cloud storage and exposes a unified file layer—closely matching Foldr's no-migration, multi-backend thesis across business and regulated verticals.
• LucidLink: LucidLink mounts cloud object storage as a local drive for creative and distributed teams; its drive-mount-over-cloud architecture directly parallels Foldr's Cloud Drive feature for SMB, OneDrive, SharePoint, S3 and others.
• Nasuni: Nasuni is a cloud-native file storage platform built around hybrid storage consolidation with global file locking and disaster recovery; it competes with Foldr in the multi-backend enterprise file services space, particularly for businesses replacing traditional NAS.
• Panzura: Panzura provides hybrid cloud file services with global file locking and collaboration, primarily targeting enterprises replacing traditional NAS—comparable to Foldr's hybrid storage unification and cross-backend collaboration.
• CTERA Networks: CTERA delivers hybrid cloud file storage and edge-to-cloud data services for enterprises and MSPs, with a focus on global file system and ransomware recovery—directly comparable to Foldr's hybrid storage layer and MSP channel focus.

Broad incumbents

• Box: Box is a public cloud content management and file sharing platform with enterprise governance, e-signature (Box Sign), and workflow capabilities, competing with Foldr across file management, sharing, and governance surfaces at a much larger scale.
• Citrix ShareFile: ShareFile (Cloud Software Group) is an established enterprise file sync and share product with e-signature and workflow features, overlapping with Foldr's Share, Sign, and Forms surfaces but as part of a much broader portfolio.
• Dropbox: Dropbox is a broad consumer-and-business cloud file sync and collaboration platform with e-signature (Dropbox Sign) and document workflows, competing with Foldr's drive-mount, sharing, and e-signature surfaces across SMB and mid-market.
• Microsoft SharePoint: SharePoint is Microsoft's native enterprise file and intranet platform bundled with Microsoft 365; it is one of Foldr's primary integration targets but also the largest incumbent whose native capabilities directly overlap with Foldr's unification and governance surfaces.

Emerging players

• Nutanix Files: Nutanix Files (formerly Acropolis File Services) provides enterprise-scale file storage on Nutanix HCI; it competes with Foldr's self-hosted file services for infrastructure-led deployments and shared-nothing file workloads.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/foldrhq

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

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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