AvePoint
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AvePoint is an enterprise software company that provides data protection, security, and governance solutions for organizations using cloud platforms including Microsoft 365, Google Workspace, Salesforce, and AWS. The company's Confidence Platform unifies data backup, ransomware defense, security posture management, compliance lifecycle management, content migration, and AI governance in a single platform. Founded in 2001, AvePoint serves more than 28,000 organizations and 6,000 channel partners ...
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Ideal Customer
- AvePoint's enterprise segment (organizations with more than 5,000 user seats) represents just over half of ARR and is served primarily through direct sales to CISOs, CTOs, and CIOs including Fortune 500 companies.
- Its mid-market segment (500–5,000 user seats) represents approximately 28% of ARR and is served via both direct and channel sales.
Key Differentiators
- AvePoint positions itself as the only ISV partner offering an all-in-one, platform-neutral approach to data security, governance, and resilience across Microsoft, Google, Salesforce, and other multi-cloud environments from a single unified platform, in contrast to competitors that offer point solutions.
- Its integrated AvePoint Confidence Platform covers the full data lifecycle from creation through archival and deletion, including AI governance capabilities such as AgentPulse for cross-platform AI agent management—a category where few competitors have established offerings.
Industries Served
- AvePoint serves a broad array of industries including government, financial services, healthcare and life sciences, education, manufacturing, energy and utilities, retail, professional services, and nonprofits.
- The company claims particular depth in highly regulated sectors, noting that more than two-thirds of its customers operate in regulated industries.
Service Coverage
- AvePoint operates globally, serving more than 28,000 customers across 100 countries from 38 locations worldwide.
- The platform is hosted across 14 global data centers to support scalability and data sovereignty requirements.
Partnerships
- AvePoint has a 25+ year relationship with Microsoft as one of its original SharePoint ISVs, holding Microsoft Gold competencies in Application Development, Cloud Productivity, Collaboration and Content, and Cloud Platform, and has been named a six-time global Microsoft Partner of the Year.
- The company is also a Global Top 5 Azure Co-Sell ISV and a Microsoft Content AI Partner.
Company Size
- AvePoint was founded in 2001 by co-founders Tianyi (TJ) Jiang and Xunkai (Kai) Gong, who remain with the company as CEO and Executive Chairman respectively.
- The company has approximately 2,800–3,443 employees globally (sources vary), with two-thirds of the workforce based in APAC, including more than 1,400 in ASEAN.
Ownership
- AvePoint is a publicly traded company listed on the Nasdaq under the ticker symbol AVPT, and is also listed on the Singapore Exchange (SGX: AVP).
- It went public in July 2021 via a SPAC merger with Apex Technology Acquisition Corporation at an approximately $2 billion equity valuation.
Compliance & Certifications
- AvePoint holds an extensive portfolio of security certifications including SOC 2 Type II (renewed four consecutive years), ISO 27001:2022 (information security management), ISO 27017:2015 (cloud security), ISO 27701:2019 (privacy information management), and CSA STAR Level 2.
- For regulated industries, it maintains FedRAMP (Moderate) authorization reaffirmed in 2025 and aligned with NIST SP 800-53 Rev.
Compiled from public sources by VenSearch · Last researched October 13, 2026
Offerings
13 offeringsAdvisory & Implementation Services
AvePoint's Advisory and Implementation Services provide expert guidance and hands-on support for customers deploying and configuring AvePoint solutions. This offering is listed as a distinct service line under the Services menu alongside Deployment Services and AvePoint Client Services.
AgentPulse
AgentPulse is an AI Agent Management Platform that provides centralized discovery, governance, and lifecycle control across AI agents running in Microsoft, Google, Salesforce, and other environments without relying on the platforms themselves. It delivers inventory and risk visibility, shared accountability workflows, business context capture, policy enforcement, and AI FinOps cost tracking from a single platform-neutral view. The solution supports Copilot Studio agents and enables organizations to identify shadow AI, enforce compliance policies, and monitor agent activity and license consumption.
AvePoint Client Services
AvePoint Client Services is a professional services offering providing advisory, implementation, and deployment support for AvePoint solutions. The service is listed as a distinct services category alongside Advisory & Implementation and Deployment Services, indicating hands-on customer support and project delivery capabilities.
AvePoint Confidence Platform
The AvePoint Confidence Platform is a unified data protection platform that integrates data security, governance, and resilience to prevent overexposure and sprawl, modernize legacy and fragmented data, and minimize data loss and interruption across an organization's data estate. It connects, protects, and secures digital infrastructure through intelligent automation and supports Microsoft, Google, Salesforce, and other cloud environments. The platform covers the full digital lifecycle from data creation through archival and deletion.
Centralized Multi-Tenant Management
AvePoint's multi-tenant management solution enables managed service providers and channel partners to manage hundreds or thousands of customer tenants from a single platform, automating governance, security, and compliance across Microsoft 365 and SaaS environments. It includes unified dashboards, baseline management with drift detection and auto-remediation, user and device lifecycle management, workspace governance, license optimization analytics, and risk and change management automation. The platform also supports marketplace integration for purchasing, provisioning, and managing licenses directly, and features built-in distributor support and bulk deployment capabilities.
Cloud Migration & Modernization
AvePoint's migration solution provides secure, scalable content and identity migration across Microsoft 365, Google Workspace, SharePoint, Exchange, Entra ID, Active Directory, Dynamics 365, Box, File Systems, Slack, and other platforms using high-speed APIs while preserving metadata, sensitivity labels, permissions, and configurations. It includes a free discovery and pre-migration calculator for scoping, real-time global dashboards for progress tracking, and post-migration hypercare support with granular control down to the item or conversation level. Customers can choose self-guided, fully managed, or tailored support, and the solution uses flat-rate pricing with no hidden fees or data caps.
Cloud ROI & SaaS Cost Optimization
This solution helps IT leaders eliminate digital sprawl, optimize storage, and streamline SaaS management to reduce costs and maximize ROI across cloud environments. It identifies and eliminates redundant, obsolete, and trivial content, analyzes license usage to prevent overspending on Microsoft 365 and Copilot, and applies pragmatic data protection levels based on data value and associated risk. The solution also empowers data owners to make informed decisions and resolve oversharing issues, and automates lifecycle management to improve AI output quality.
Compliance and Information Lifecycle Management
This solution helps IT, records managers, and compliance leaders govern content and workspaces at scale by automating retention, classification, and defensible deletion policies across Microsoft 365 environments. It automates lifecycle management to generate audit-ready reports, meet GDPR, HIPAA, and regional data residency requirements, and reduce compliance preparation time. The platform also provisions, recertifies, and expires Teams, SharePoint sites, and Groups with automated policies to prevent sprawl, and monitors exposure to enforce sensitivity, privacy, and access policies in real time.
Data & Identity Security Posture Management (DSPM & IAM)
AvePoint's DSPM and Identity Access Management solution provides complete visibility into sensitive data and user access with automated discovery, policy enforcement, and least-privilege access controls across multi-cloud environments including Microsoft 365, Google, Salesforce, AWS, SharePoint, Azure, Box, Jira, Confluence, and others. It uses AI-driven risk detection, automated remediation, and a centralized dashboard to monitor policy violations, set risk-based alerts, and close security gaps across teams, workspaces, enterprise applications, and AI agents. The solution also includes identity infrastructure backup, user identity protection, and access configuration safeguarding to ensure business continuity after identity-related incidents.
Deployment Services
AvePoint Deployment Services provides technical deployment support for organizations implementing AvePoint solutions. This is listed as a distinct service offering under the Services navigation menu alongside Advisory & Implementation and AvePoint Client Services.
Foundational AI Readiness
AvePoint's AI Readiness solution helps organizations build a trustworthy data foundation to support AI adoption by automatically discovering and archiving redundant and outdated data, remediating oversharing, and applying Data Security Posture Management across multi-cloud environments. The solution includes multi-source consolidation, ROT and inactive data scans, cross-cloud labeling, and lifecycle management for Microsoft Copilot and Google Gemini. It also provides actionable insights into tool usage and prompt behavior to inform licensing and training decisions, and supports an automated shared accountability governance model.
Operational Governance
AvePoint's operational governance solution automates policy enforcement, workspace provisioning, and compliance management across Microsoft 365, Google Workspace, Teams, SharePoint, Power Platform, Dynamics 365, and Azure. It embeds governance directly into daily operations by applying and reverting out-of-policy changes without manual intervention, enables governed self-service for workspace requests through structured approval workflows, and automates the full workspace lifecycle from archiving to deletion and renewal. The solution also provides centralized visibility into permissions, external users, sensitive data, and risk, and includes intelligent content classification based on sensitivity and business context.
Ransomware Protection & Disaster Recovery
AvePoint's ransomware protection and disaster recovery solution provides backup and rapid recovery for Microsoft 365, SaaS applications, Salesforce, Google Workspace, and cloud infrastructure including Azure, AWS, and Google Cloud. It features express backup with restore speeds up to 2TB per hour leveraging Microsoft 365 Backup Storage, logically air-gapped immutable backups, BYOK encryption, and predictable user-based licensing with no ingress or egress fees. The solution supports granular and bulk restores, multi-geo storage options, unlimited retention, and automatic workload discovery for complete multi-cloud coverage.
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