

Its most recent fundraising round in 2018 brought in $295 million, bringing total funding to $358 million. AnchorFree is headquartered in Redwood City, California, with offices in Ukraine and Russia.


The company is led by David Gorodyansky, who founded the firm in 2005 together with his friend Eugene Malobrodsky. The company's flagship product is Hotspot Shield, a popular virtual private network (VPN) service and the top-grossing app for productivity in the Apple App Store. It is usable with your external harddisk, iPod, USB stick, iDisk, AFP, NFS, SMB, WebDAV, Airport Extreme or other network disks.AnchorFree is an internet privacy and security company that provides businesses and consumers with advanced technologies to enable secure and private web browsing. SmartBackup supports backing up to any kind of harddisk, partition or network sharepoint. Telling SmartBackup to "backup all files changed during the last week", "backup only purchased music out of the iTunes library" or "exclude all files with a red label", is just one click. That way files found by that searches can be backed up or excluded. With SmartBackup you can use Spotlights "Saved Searches" as backup items. SmartBackup knows it for you and offers several useful presets. You do not have to know where Mail, iCal, iWeb etc. SmartBackup supports backups to external harddisks, iPods, or network shares. SmartBackups sync engine also handles preserving of MacOSX specific metadata or archiving of changed or deleted files for you in a fast an efficient way. During each backup only those items are copied. SmartBackup uses its own built in optimized sync engine to determine which items have changed since your last backup. No matter if you want to create full bootable backups or just set up a few important items for a small efficient network backup, SmartBackup makes it very easy. If you are looking for a fast and straightforward tool for your backups, SmartBackup is perfect for you.
