Cleversafe + Chris Gladwin + Matt England

Cleversafe plans to change the way your computer's data is stored. Traditionally, the more reliable you want your storage to be, the more copies of your data you make. However, the more copies you have floating around the less secure your data is because more people potentially have access to it. Cleversafe has developed a model to take your data, break it into 11 (or more) pieces and store each piece on different severs scattered around the world. To reconstruct the original information you'll need to access any 6 of these pieces, so your data is safe with any one of those. Additionally, this means that any 5 servers can be destroyed and you can still reconstruct everything.

CEO Chris Gladwin created Cleversafe’s information dispersal algorithms & business plan and Matt England created the grid system architecture. Previously, Chris was the founder and CEO of MusicNow until it was sold to Circuit City (and then re-sold to AOL). The Board includes U.S. Robotics vets Michael Seedman and Jon Zakin, the former CTO of Motorola, Dennis Roberson. The company was funded OCA Ventures and others.

Dimensions: 25 people x 2 years x $NDA
Funding: The founders, VC investors.
Customers: Anyone who take their data seriously
Location: Chicago [Downtown] + www.cleversafe.com + www.cleversafe.org

What's Next: The commercial release of their data storage service.