Private company

Syncplicity

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American cloud storage company based in Santa Clara, founded in 20081

Syncplicity is a file share and synchronization service developed by Syncplicity Inc. The service lets users store and synchronize files between computers. It supports Microsoft Windows and macOS.2 Wikipedia text CC BY-SA 4.0

Last updated Oct 21, 2026.

Overview

Nov 3, 2008Founded1

Syncplicity is a file share and synchronization service developed by Syncplicity Inc. The service lets users store and synchronize files between computers. It supports Microsoft Windows and macOS.2

The story

The service was initially available for beta test, and became public in 2008.

In late 2010, a client for Intel-based Macintosh computers running Mac OS X version 10.6 or later was released.

On May 21, 2012, Syncplicity, Inc. was acquired by EMC Corporation.

In July 2015, Skyview Capital, a global private investment firm, purchased Syncplicity from EMC.

In February 2017, Axway purchased Syncplicity from Skyview Capital.

From Wikipedia’s article on Syncplicity, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.4

Products and brands

  • software

Listed on Wikidata.1

Several file synchronization and backup services launched around the same time as Syncplicity, including Live Mesh, Dropbox, and SugarSync. Syncplicity allows synchronization with other online services including Google Docs, Zoho, and Facebook. Documents can be synchronised with an associated Google Docs account from Windows or Macintosh computers; however, documents uploaded to free Google Docs accounts will be converted to Google Docs file formats where conversion is supported, and otherwise ignored. Photos can be synchronised with Facebook albums. Online services including Scribd and Piknik are supported by Syncplicity.

From Wikipedia’s article on Syncplicity, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.4

Timeline

  1. Nov 3, 2008Founded Founded1

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