Slide secures $70 million to modernise data backup for small firms
Slide, a data protection startup focused on small and mid-sized businesses, has raised $70 million to build faster, more resilient data backup and recovery infrastructure. The fresh capital will be used to expand engineering, enhance its cloud-native platform and grow partnerships with managed service providers that serve smaller companies.
Targeting a critical gap in SME data protection
While large enterprises typically deploy complex disaster recovery and cyber‑resilience stacks, many smaller organisations still depend on outdated, slow or manual backup systems. This leaves them exposed to ransomware, hardware failures and compliance breaches.
Slide aims to close that gap with an automated service that continuously backs up files, applications and databases across on‑premise and cloud environments. The platform is designed to minimise recovery time objectives (RTO) and recovery point objectives (RPO), enabling small businesses to restore operations in minutes rather than hours or days.
Faster backups, smarter recovery
Cloud‑native architecture and automation
According to the company, Slide uses a cloud‑native architecture that leverages incremental backups, data deduplication and compression to reduce storage costs and speed up transfers. Policy‑based automation allows IT teams and service providers to define which workloads are protected, how often they are backed up and where copies are stored.
The platform also incorporates AI‑driven anomaly detection to spot unusual patterns that may indicate malware or data tampering. When a threat is detected, customers can roll back to known‑good versions of their systems, limiting downtime and data loss.
Rising demand amid cyber and regulatory pressure
Escalating cyberattacks, stricter data protection regulations and the shift to hybrid work have pushed robust backup from a nice‑to‑have to a core business requirement. For small firms without large IT teams, outsourcing this function to a specialist provider such as Slide is increasingly attractive.
With the new $70 million injection, Slide plans to accelerate product development, deepen integrations with popular SaaS and cloud infrastructure platforms, and expand into new geographic markets. The company is positioning itself as a strategic partner for small businesses that need enterprise‑grade data resilience without enterprise‑level complexity or cost.