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. december 2015 learn how and when to remove this template message learn how and when to remove this template message gigmax your files . anywhere . industry data backup data synchronization file hosting service founded august 2005 founder matthew kenig david gerlach headquarters philadelphia pennsylvania area served worldwide products gigmax desktop software website gigmax.com gigmax is a philadelphia pa based startup specializing in data synchronization data backup and file hosting . the company was formed by two 2010 lehigh university graduates . contents 1 company history 2 grants 3 awards 4 references 5 external links company history edit in august 2005 matt kenig in his senior year of high school disliked having to carry a usb flash drive with him in case he needed to transfer digital documents or print lab reports . not content with the limited current technology kenig created a storage website that made it simpler to upload store organize and transfer their files thus eliminating the need for a tangible object like a usb flash drive or hefty email attachments . kenig entered lehigh university the following year as a computer science and business major . down the hall in his dorm not even 100 feet away was an electrical engineer with a genius technical mind david gerlach . the two guys quickly became a pair friends in life and business partners in gigmax . they shared a desire to grow the storage website and set about remodeling its look and usability . kenig and gerlach faced numerous obstacles in the reinvention process but any detours only furthered their goal to improve file transfer and storage . within another year gigmax.com had a new design with advanced capabilities including community photo and uploading applications . but the work didn t stop there . kenig and gerlach began seriously researching gigmax competitors analyzing the pros and cons of the industry standards . by the summer of 2009 they finalized a clear vision and business plan for the company . with the help of local investors and the support of the pennsylvania technical community gerlach and kenig began turning their gigmax dreams into a reality working long hours to code the ideal service for their users . the result a file storage system that surpasses transfer and instead realizes file synchronization and access for what it should be limitless . kenig currently acts as the founder and ceo of gigmax which gerlach is considered its co founder and chief technology officer . 1 grants edit first place winner of michael w. levin advanced technology competition at lehigh 3 000 2 september 2009 received grant from keystone innovation zone of the lehigh valley economic development corporation 15 000 3 awards edit second place winner of thalheimer student entrepreneurs competition at lehigh university january 2007 4 first place winner of michael w. levin advanced technology competition at lehigh november 2008 5 recipient of next step success through entrepreneurship in pennsylvania student start up of the year february 2010 1 references edit a b https web.archive.org web 20100725151843 http www.lehighvalley.org page.cfm pag 58 . archived from the original on july 25 2010 . retrieved june 9 2010 . missing or empty title help 1 archived march 3 2009 at the wayback machine . 2 archived october 5 2009 at the wayback machine . 3 archived november 6 2010 at the wayback machine . 4 archived september 24 2010 at the wayback machine . external links edit official website retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title gigmax & oldid 739205122 categories data synchronizationsoftware companies based in pennsylvaniahidden categories pages with citations lacking titlespages with citations having bare urlsarticles with wayback machine linksorphaned articles from march 2013all orphaned articlesarticles with a promotional tone from december 2015all articles with a promotional tonearticles needing additional references from september 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