TitanFile
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TitanFile Inc is a Canadian
Canada
Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...

 company
Company
A company is a form of business organization. It is an association or collection of individual real persons and/or other companies, who each provide some form of capital. This group has a common purpose or focus and an aim of gaining profits. This collection, group or association of persons can be...

 headquartered in Halifax, Nova Scotia
Nova Scotia
Nova Scotia is one of Canada's three Maritime provinces and is the most populous province in Atlantic Canada. The name of the province is Latin for "New Scotland," but "Nova Scotia" is the recognized, English-language name of the province. The provincial capital is Halifax. Nova Scotia is the...

. TitanFile is an online secure file sharing
File sharing
File sharing is the practice of distributing or providing access to digitally stored information, such as computer programs, multimedia , documents, or electronic books. It may be implemented through a variety of ways...

 and email encryption service. The company is one of the secure cloud computing
Cloud computing
Cloud computing is the delivery of computing as a service rather than a product, whereby shared resources, software, and information are provided to computers and other devices as a utility over a network ....

 pioneers advocating for stronger privacy
Privacy
Privacy is the ability of an individual or group to seclude themselves or information about themselves and thereby reveal themselves selectively...

 policies in Canada
Canada
Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...

 as well as USA.

TitanFile provides secure document transfer solutions free of charge to non-profit organizations and is accepted by many government organizations due to full privacy
Privacy
Privacy is the ability of an individual or group to seclude themselves or information about themselves and thereby reveal themselves selectively...

 policy compliance.

History

In 2010, the company won the Nova Scotia Co-operative's Best Big Idea 2010 competition and Dyn
DynDNS
Dyn is an infrastructure as a service company that provides Internet DNS and email delivery services for commercial and private users. It originally provided a free dynamic DNS service, which allowed users to have a subdomain that points to a computer with regularly changing IP addresses, such as...

 and CloudCamp
CloudCamp
CloudCamp is an unconference for cloud computing early adopters, held internationally on an ad-hoc basis.- History :CloudCamp was formed to provide a common ground for the introduction and advancement of cloud computing. The founders include Dave Nielsen, Reuven Cohen and Sam Charrington...

's Cloudy Awards 2011. In March of 2011, co-founders Milan Vrekic and Tony Abou-Assaleh launched TitanFile publicly. That same month, The Chronicle Herald mentioned TitanFile's support for organizations and individuals to securely share documents.

In August 2011, TitanFile secured a $250,000 CAD seed financing round from Innovacorp
Innovacorp
Innovacorp is a Nova Scotia crown corporation. The organization was established under Nova Scotia’s Innovation Corporation Act, 1994–95, c. 5, s. 1. Its goal is to help early stage Nova Scotia companies commercialize their technologies for export markets...

.

Product

TitanFile was designed to be a robust and reliable solution for users wishing to send and receive electronic documents that were too big or too confidential for email
Email
Electronic mail, commonly known as email or e-mail, is a method of exchanging digital messages from an author to one or more recipients. Modern email operates across the Internet or other computer networks. Some early email systems required that the author and the recipient both be online at the...

. TitanFile Inc. offers four types of TitanFile user-accounts including a free account available to users, but with basic features only. Depending on the account type, TitanFile offers unlimited number of files that can be shared on a secured connection, almost unlimited file size, 24/7 email and phone support, encrypted storage, a secure deposit box, and recipient verification, available to up to 100 members.
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