[3] Minneapolis-based Jamf Software was founded in Eau Claire, Wisconsin, by Zach Halmstad, Christopher Thon and Chip Pearson[4] and in 2002 released The Casper Suite.

[5] The company name came from Laszlo Jamf, a character in Thomas Pynchon's novel Gravity's Rainbow.

[7] In 2015 Dean Hager was hired as CEO to replace Halmstad and Pearson, who had previously shared those duties.

[11] Jamf acquired three companies in 2018 and 2019 – Orchard and Grove,[12] ZuluDesk[13] and Digita Security[14] – expanding its product portfolio to include identity and authentication management, an education-specific MDM, and endpoint security built for Mac using user behavior analytics.

Jamf had a successful IPO on the Nasdaq stock market in July 2020, raising $468 million and valuing the company at around $4.6 billion.