About Filestack

Originally a file picker, now an entire file infrastructure

What is Filestack?

Filestack is a developer service for file uploading in the exploding realm of user-created content. Like APIs from other parts of the technology stack, such as Stripe and Twilio, Filestack allows software developers to integrate more than 25 of the world’s leading cloud drives with just a few lines of code. End users can upload content from websites and mobile apps like Facebook, Instagram, and Dropbox or wherever that content is stored.

Filestack enables developers to upload and store large files, transform and manipulate images and other file types, and deliver that content with blazing speed, responsively, across any type of desktop or mobile device. Filestack is headquartered in San Antonio, Texas and has been used by more than 50,000 app developers around the world.

Our History

2012

April 16

Spring 2012

Founded by four MIT students to warmly embrace the death of local files by creating an easy way to upload files directly from multiple cloud sources.

May 16

May 2012

Wins the $100,000 Grand Prize at the MIT 2012 Entrepreneurship Competition for the service that “makes the upload button obsolete”.

July 17

Summer 2012

Enters Y Combinator Accelerator in Palo Alto, California. See our Y Combinator listing.

November 17

November 2012

Reaches 1 million file uploads with customers and applications spread throughout the world.

2013

June 17

June 2013

Raises $1.8 million in funding from Andreessen Horowitz, Highland Capital and SV Angel.

July 17

July 2013

Reaches 10 million files uploaded with 20+ cloud sources.

2014

April 17

April 2014

Receives new injection of capital and talent from Xenon Ventures to build out a more complete file infrastructure service.

June 17

June 2014

Reaches 100 million files uploaded with 32 supported languages and becomes widely recognized as the #1 dev tool for file uploads.

November 17

November 2014

Partners with Amazon to launch the Amazon Cloud Drive integration. Read more here.

2015

March 17

March 2015

Launches video encoding, enabling customers to encode to multiple formats.

April 17

April 2015

Reaches 250 million images, documents, videos, and files uploaded.

June 17

June 2015

Relocates company headquarters to San Antonio, Texas, to embrace new management and San Antonio’s growing tech scene.

July 17

July 2015

Launches as a partner with Google for Google Nearline. Read more here.

August 17

August 2015

Releases V2 of the API and enhances responsive dialog, including new features such as client side image manipulation.

October 17

October 2015

Deploys advanced processing engine, bringing transformation functionality to both the Filestack url and 3rd party assets.

December 17

December 2015

Rebrands to Filestack, symbolizing the transition from file uploading to complete file infrastructure as a service. Pat Matthews is appointed CEO of Filestack.

2016

January 17

January 2016

Featured on Product Hunt.

2017

March 17

March 2017

Deploys V3 API with advanced upload capabilities, in-app transformations, and streamlined design.

April 17

April 2017

Launches the Filestack Content Ingestion Network with the ability to increase file upload speeds up to 10x anywhere in the world.

August 17

August 2017

Sameer Kamat Joins Filestack as CEO to lead Filestack’s Digital Asset Management strategy.

August 17

August 2017

Launches Filestack Intelligent Ingestion to increase file upload reliability, now ensuring 99.999% file upload success across all device types, browsers, and network conditions.