YouSendIt

Company: YouSendIt, Inc., Campbell, CA
Entry Submitted by: Airfoil Public Relations
Company Description: YouSendIt is the number one digital file delivery company serving businesses and individuals on the Web today. More than eight million people trust YouSendIt to instantly and securely send, receive and track their valuable business and personal digital content via the Web.
Nomination Category: Company Categories
Nomination Sub Category: Best Overall Company of the Year

Nomination Title: YouSendIt

Tell the story about what this nominated company achieved since January 1 2008 (up to 500 words). Focus on specific accomplishments, and relate these accomplishments to past performance or industry norms. Be sure to mention obstacles overcome, innovations or discoveries made, and outcomes:

YouSendIt is the industry leading managed digital file transfer company with
300 percent year over year revenue growth in the last two years. The company
succeeded in expanding its position as the number-one managed digital file
transfer service by garnering more than eight million total users, and growing
at a rate of 200,000 new users per month – a 60 percent increase from last
year. The company has steadily grown its business user base through
subscription services and the integration of YouSendIt into everyday business
applications via new plug-ins for Microsoft Outlook, Microsoft Office, Adobe
Photoshop, Apple Final Cut Pro and iPhoto, and through its YouSendIt Express
desktop application. As a result, YouSendIt has grown its paid subscriber base
to 100,000, including 750 Corporate Suite customers such as Warnaco, AON, EMI
Music, Responsys, the City of Seattle and Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta
International Airport.

Securing $14 million in Series C funding this year, YouSendIt has placed itself
in a great position to fund new innovations and improve on document
transformation, collaboration and content-management. With the goal of making
digital file transfer as easy as possible for IT professionals and business
users, YouSendIt’s latest innovations continue to eliminate the need for
complicated FTP sites and overnight courier services, while preventing email
bounce-backs. YouSendIt’s releases of Express, SiteDrop and the Outlook plug-in
this year are perfect examples of innovative, easy-to-use solutions that enable
users to receive large files of any type easily and securely.

* YouSendIt Express for both the PC and the Apple® Mac platforms, allows
IT professional or business user to quickly and seamlessly send files and
folders directly from their desktop without having to open an e-mail client or
Web browser. Express users experience up to 25 percent faster uploads and the
protection of resumable uploads.

* SiteDrop integrates seamlessly into Web sites of businesses or
individuals needing to receive files from customers, colleagues, partners or
vendors. Because SiteDrop becomes a component of the user’s Web site, it
eliminates lost files and the need for senders to leave the Web site, struggle
with FTP or burn images to a CD and send via overnight courier.

* Finally, YouSendIt’s plug-in for Outlook allows users to manage large
file transfers and collaboration without changing the way they attach files.
The Outlook plug-in also offers several rich sending options including advanced
tracking and security features to ensure that only the intended recipient can
download a file.

Recognized by Gartner as both a “Visionary” in the Managed File Transfer Magic
Quadrant and a “Cool Vendor” in the 2008 Platform and Integration Middleware
report, YouSendIt has not only earned the respect of its customers, but also
its industry peers. The company has gone on to receive a variety of industry
accolades including a CNET 2008 Webware 100 award in the Utility & Security
category; a 2008-2009 San Jose/Silicon Valley Business Journal “Who’s Who”
designation; a Network Products Guide Product Innovation award in the SaaS
category; and a finalist standing in Network Products Guide 2009 Hot Companies
list.

List hyperlinks to any online news stories, press releases, or other documents that support the claims made in the section above. IMPORTANT: Begin each link with http://, and enclose each link in square brackets; for example, [http://www.youraddress.com]:

Coverage
* Technology Tools: E-mail's Little Helpers (Inc., Aug. 2008) –
http://www.inc.com/magazine/20080801/technology-tools-e-mails-little-helpers.html
* Sending Video Files Without YouTube (Wall Street Journal, Jul. 31,
2008) – http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121745609570098527.html?mod=technology_columns_featured_lsc
* YouSendIt gets $14M to send large files (VentureBeat, Jul. 15, 2008) –
http://venturebeat.com/2008/07/15/yousendit-gets-14m-to-send-large-files/
* Frugal can shop Internet for software freebies (USA Today, Jul. 1,
2008) – http://www.usatoday.com/tech/products/software/2008-07-01-free-software_N.htm
* Drop off Digital Files (Inc., May 7, 2008) –
http://www.inc.com/news/articles/2008/05/products0507.html
* All in Good Fun (Entrepreneur Magazine, May 2008) –
http://www.entrepreneur.com/magazine/entrepreneur/2008/may/192662.html
* Webware 100 winner: YouSendIt (CNET, Apr. 21, 2008) –
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13546_109-9914730-29.html?tag=mncol

Releases
* YouSendIt Continues Industry Leadership Position by Handling Eight
Million Users – http://www.yousendit.com/cms/111108-Article-PRNewswire
* YouSendIt Inc. Secures $14 Million in Series C Financing –
http://www.yousendit.com/cms/files/YSI%20Series%20C%20FINAL.pdf
* YouSendIt Named "Cool Vendor" by Leading Analyst Firm –
http://www.yousendit.com/cms/files/YSI%20Gartner%20Cool%20Vendors%20release%20FINAL.pdf
* YouSendIt Plug-in Allows Microsoft Outlook Users and IT Professionals
to Seamlessly Send Large Files Directly From Microsoft Outlook –
http://www.yousendit.com/cms/files/YSI%20Outlook%20plug-in%20release%20FINAL.pdf  
* YouSendIt Announces SiteDrop, A File Delivery Solution for Businesses –
http://www.yousendit.com/cms/files/SiteDrop_announcement.pdf
* YouSendIt Express allows users to seamlessly send files and folders
directly from their desktop – http://www.yousendit.com/cms/files/YSI%20Express%20release%20final.pdf
* YouSendIt Subscriber Base Grows 300 Percent in 2007 –
http://www.yousendit.com/cms/files/Q4_Momentum_Release%20FINAL%20FINAL.pdf
* YouSendIt Corporate Suite Enables Businesses to Cut Costs and Increase
Productivity –
http://www.yousendit.com/cms/files/Corporate_Suite_news_release_Final.pdf

Provide a brief (up to 100 words) biography about the leader of this nominated company:

As CEO of YouSendIt, Ivan Koon manages the company's core operations, business
growth, strategy and key partnerships. In this role, Koon transformed the
company from an ad-based to a subscription-based model and played an integral
role in solidifying YouSendIt's managed digital file transfer leadership. Prior
to joining YouSendIt, Koon was senior vice president of Adobe’s Acrobat
Intelligent Document business unit, where he more than doubled Acrobat's
revenue in less than three years and created an Enterprise Document LifeCycle
Server business that grew to over $100 million in revenue.