Start-Ups’s Profile: Long Access

Long Access was created in 2013 by Panayotis Vryonis with four persons, offering a long-term protected storage service in the cloud using AES-256 encryption, assuming these files would be accessible for 30 years, naming their product Longaccess. Today, with eight employees and after raising funds twice since their creation, the greek-based company raised another €300,000 from Jeremie Openfund II last December to launch, BigStash replacing deepfreeze.io.

BigStash, built and developed by Long Access, is also an archiving service in the cloud where you can store files you won’t need in a near future, but in a simpler way. It does not offer the encryption service like Longaccess.

These two products are not syncing files constantly from your local drive, like Dropbox, iCloud or Skydrive.

Company:
Long Access

HQs:
Athens, Greece

Date founded:
2013

Financial funding:

Total at €410,000:

• July 2013: €110,000, seed funding from Openfund
• Dec 2014: €300,000, seed funding from Jeremie Openfund II

Current investors also include Driin Holdings

Main executive:
 Panayotis Vryonis, founder and CEO wanted to make sure his two-year old daughter will find her first photos when she is old enough to appreciate them. When he is not working, he likes to take care of his garden while listening to podcasts.

Products description:
Longaccess
It’s a place where you can store files, encrypted with AES-256, available “for decades”. The files stored can be of any size, from a couple kilobytes to many gigabytes. The software encrypts data before leaving the computer, and the company never gets the key. Files uploaded cannot be deleted or updated. It is not a file syncing or sharing service. The firm uses a combination of Amazon S3 and Amazon Glacier to store the files. Longaccess ca be used via Dropbox.

How does it work?
1.  You create an account.
2.  You upload the file you want to store?
3.  You get a certificate for every file you upload. The certificate is recommended to be printed and is the only way to access the files. Anyone with access to the Archive Certificate can access the corresponding archive data. Nothing else is required, not even a username or password.

BigStash
Different from Longaccess, it’s a simpler solution that does not encrypt the files and so does not create an Archive Certificate. If Longaccess is the equivalent of a safe deposit box in a Swiss bank for the data, BigStash is an attic. To promote the products, BigStash is offered for free with 5TB during one year.

How Long Access compares present and future for BigStash:

Pricing:

Longaccess:

• 250MB for free
• 1GB at €7/year
• 10GB at €49/year
• 100GB at €399/year

Bigstash:

• 10GB for free
• 100GB at €15/year
• 200GB at €30/year
• 500GB at €70/year
• 1TB at €100/year
• 2TB at €200/year
• 5TB at €500/year

Target market:
Longaccess is for individuals who want to preserve data for them, their family or friends. BigStash is a solution for people with quite a lot of files like video and photography, for example photographers, video producers, bloggers and gamers.

Competitors:
Include MCS Archive (Markley Cloud Services), Archive as a Service (ClearDATA), OSCAR or On-Site Cloud Archive (Arkivum), Infinidisc Never Full Cloud Archive Service (Waterford Technologies with Open Source Storage), Storage Made Easy, Pogoplug Cloud Storage Services, Zoolz (Genie9), Arq (Haystack Software).