appears to have a close connection with its subject . it may require cleanup to comply with wikipedia s content policies particularly neutral point of view . please discuss further on the talk page . november 2013 learn how and when to remove this template message huddle type private industry collaboration platform content management systems founded 2006 headquarters london united kingdom san francisco california products huddle slogan collaborate intelligently . website www.huddle.com huddle is privately held cloud based collaboration software company founded in london in 2006 by alastair mitchell and andy mcloughlin . the company is co headquartered in london and san francisco with additional offices in washington d.c. and new york city . as of 2012 update the company has raised approximately 40 million in three funding rounds from jafco ventures eden ventures matrix partners and angel investors . 1 2 huddle has established the huddle foundation to provide completely free huddle software packages to registered charities worldwide including barnardo s 3 the fair trade federation and unicef . contents 1 technology 2 huddle usage in government 3 see also 4 references technology edit huddle is a cloud based collaboration service that enables enterprise and government organizations worldwide to securely store access share sync and work on files with everyone they need to regardless of whether they are inside or outside of an organization s firewall . built to support the needs of the workforce huddle is focused on secure external collaboration . the service brings together the entire business network of partners colleagues clients and contractors into one central online environment where they can work together effectively on content from wherever they are via whatever device they re using pc laptop smartphone or tablet . huddle is used by more than 100 000 organizations worldwide including companies such as akqa kia motors williams lea grant thornton national grid keolis go ahead group driscoll s beats by dre and panasonic europe . the company also has strong government credentials and is used by 80 % of central uk government departments including the ministry of justice the department of energy & climate change 4 and the cabinet office . on september 12 2013 huddle announced its desktop integrations with huddle for mac huddle for windows and huddle for outlook . 5 removing the need for files to be saved locally and freeing teams from the corporate network huddle s new integrations ensured colleagues could securely work together store edit and save files via their desktop applications directly into huddle s secure cloud . the launch of huddle note followed in december 2013 enabling simple content creation in the cloud along with a redesigned ios app . 6 the huddle for office integration launched the following year . 7 in 2014 huddle announced that it had secured a global enterprise wide agreement with grant thornton one of the world s leading organizations of independent assurance tax and advisory firms which will make the secure cloud collaboration technology available to member firms across the globe . 8 in addition williams lea the global business process outsourcing bpo company signed an enterprise wide agreement with huddle adding it to its suite of online tools to further increase the speed at which it collaborates internally and externally . 9 in 2013 the company received the award for emerging star of the year at the uk tech awards 2013 10 and the supplier of the year accolade at computer weekly s european user awards for enterprise software . 11 in addition the company s ceo alastair mitchell has been selected as one of computer weekly s ten rising stars at the publication s cw tech 50 awards . 12 huddle usage in government edit huddle has strong government credentials and the cloud collaboration service is used by 80 % of central uk government departments including the ministry of justice moj department of environment food and rural affairs defra the department of energy and climate change and the department for business innovation and skills bis . huddle continues to be the most successful sme software as a service supplier in terms of contract numbers on the uk government s g cloud program . as of the end of august 2014 huddle had secured 206 contracts via the g cloud framework . 13 on september 12 2012 huddle announced that a fisma certified instance of its cloud based content collaboration platform is being developed for u.s. government agencies and organizations as a result of a strategic partnership and technology development agreement with in q tel the non profit strategic investment firm that identifies innovative technology solutions to support the missions of the u.s. intelligence community . this instance of the cloud collaboration services enables the u.s. government community to securely discover access and work on content with people . the technology is currently being developed for two iqt customer agencies the department of homeland security science and technology directorate and the national geospatial intelligence agency . 14 15 see also edit collaboration platform collaboration software list of collaborative software cloud collaboration document collaboration in q tel investment portfolio references edit techcrunch huddle lands 24m series c to go big on enterprise cloud storage and collaboration . 24 may 2012 . xconomy.com huddle with a fresh 24m puts a predictive spin on file sharing . 30 may 2012 . computerweekly.com barnardo s uses huddle note for collaboration and communication . retrieved 23 january 2014 . diginomica.com the cloud collaboration behind a 50m user smart meter roll out . 3 april 2014 . fastcompany.com huddle is stepping on dropbox s turf . 12 september 2013 . venturebeat.com evernote for the enterprise huddle rolls out notes feature alongside redesigned ios app . 10 december 2013 . venturebeat.com evernote for the enterprise huddle rolls out notes feature alongside redesigned ios app . 10 december 2013 . v3.co.uk huddle cloud tools rolled out to 39 000 at accounting firm grant thornton . 8 september 2014 . techworld.com williams lea deploys huddle collaboration software . 3 june 2014 . uktech awards.co.uk winners . computerweekly.com huddle cloud tools rolled out to 39 000 at accounting firm grant thornton . 27 june 2013 . computerweekly.com computer weekly uktech50 rising stars 2013 . 4 december 2013 . digitalmarketplace.blog.gov.uk . techcrunch prepping for ipo huddle tools its cloud collaboration platform for u.s. intel honchos dept of homeland security and nga september 12 2012 gigaom shhhh huddle gets funding from cia backed in q tel september 12 2012 retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title huddle software & oldid 740025466 categories cloud applicationscollaborative softwarehidden categories wikipedia articles with possible conflicts of interest from november 2013pages using infobox 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