
This is on a relatively modest base at the moment: the company has told a Dutch publication that annual revenue is $23 million (€20 million), with sales doubling in the last year. (You refresh to see more pictures.)Īlso unlike many of these, WeTransfer says that it’s been “consistently profitable” since 2013. Your style,” one homepage ad for the company itself reads. No banner advertising and no requirement to register with the service to use it. It positions itself a bit differently, though: more like their arty, laid-back Dutch cousin than a direct competitor, with a random selection of colorful wallpapers featuring monsters and other pictures in the background of an otherwise very simple user interface. WeTransfer competes with the likes of Dropbox, Box, Hightail, BitTorrent Sync and other file-sharing services that offer individuals and businesses a platform to share and transfer large documents, media files and other content that are too big to send by email. It will be using the new cash injection to expand into more markets, specifically the U.S. The raise came from a single investor, Highland Capital Partners Europe, and values WeTransfer at between $100 million and $200 million.

WeTransfer, the Dutch cloud-based web and mobile service that lets users send files to each other that are too large to send as email attachments, has raised $25 million, the first and only round of funding raised by the Amsterdam-based startup since opening for business in 2009.Īs a bootstrapped company, WeTransfer has picked up 25 million monthly active users that send 70 million files each month.
