Mimecast Ranked Among the Fastest Growing Technology Companies in the Deloitte Technology Fast 500 EMEA 2014

London, UK - Mimecast has been ranked on the Deloitte Technology Fast 500 EMEA 2014, a ranking of the 500 fastest growing technology companies in EMEA. Rankings are based on percentage revenue growth over five years. Mimecast grew 341 percent during this period.

Peter Bauer, Mimecast’s CEO and co-founder, credits the 341 percent revenue growth over the past five years to the proven success of the company’s focus to make email safer and easier to manage in the cloud. He said, "Maintaining spectacular growth as your business continues to scale is challenging but to be ranked once again by Deloitte reflects our strong commitment to customer service and ongoing focus on service innovation. We’re proud to be one of the foremost UK technology companies and expect to see continued growth in 2015.”

Mimecast has appeared in the rankings each year since 2010, maintaining at least triple-digit growth each time.

David Halstead, Deloitte UK and partner in charge of the Deloitte Technology Fast 500 EMEA programme, said, “Making the Deloitte Technology Fast 500 EMEA ranking shows Mimecast’s commitment to innovation and pushing the industry forward. With its 341 percent growth rate over five years, Mimecast has proven that its leadership has the vision and determination to grow in a highly competitive market.”

About Mimecast 

Mimecast is a leader in enterprise cloud services for the protection and management of email and corporate data. The company's cloud email security, continuity and archiving services are built on Mimecast's world-leading secure cloud platform and optimized for Microsoft Exchange and Office 365.

• Mimecast Email Security protects against inbound and outbound email-borne threats like spear-phishing, advanced persistent threats and infrastructure attacks, deliberate and accidental data leaks
• Mimecast’s Email Continuity service ensures employees can continue using their email during planned or unplanned email outages
• Mimecast Cloud Archive unifies email, file and Instant Messaging data to give end-users fast access to their personal archive via PC, Mac and mobile apps

Founded in 2003, the company has over 10,000 customers, and over 3 million users worldwide. Mimecast has offices in Europe, North America, Africa and Australia.

About Deloitte Technology Fast 500 EMEA

The Deloitte Technology Fast 500 EMEA programme is the region’s most objective industry-ranking to focus on the technology field, recognising technology companies that have achieved the fastest rates of revenue growth in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) during the past five years. Combining technological innovation, entrepreneurship and rapid growth, Fast 500 companies – large, small, public and private – span a variety of industry sectors, and are leaders in hardware, software, telecom, semiconductors, internet, media, life sciences and emerging areas, such as clean technology.

The programme is supported by the Deloitte Technology Fast 50 initiatives, which rank high growth technology companies by location or specifically defined geographic area and is run by the Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Limited’s Technology, Media & Telecommunications (TMT) global industry group. Co-sponsors include Fidelity Growth Partners Europe, a venture and growth capital investor which backs entrepreneurs with aspiration for greatness in the IT and clean technology sectors across Europe, Silicon Valley Bank, the premier bank for technology, life science, private equity and premium wine businesses and Taylor Wessing, a leading International law firm with a focus on the industries of tomorrow. More information on the programme and prior year winners is available on www.deloitte.com/fast500emea.

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