The company began in 2006 as a producer of a collaboration tool, online backup and file hosting service that allows users to access and share data using a cloud-based server.
SpiderOak differentiated itself from its competition by this kind of encryption,[12] in provision for syncing files and folders across multiple devices, and in automatic de-duplication of data.
[22] In November 2017, founder Alan Fairless was replaced as CEO by Christopher Skinner, who announced that the company would be expanding into enterprise software, partially funded by a $2 million Series B round.
[25] In January 2023, the company raised $16.4 million in a financing round "to make a full-tilt push into building its space business.
[31] The company described OrbitSecure as providing "end-to-end cybersecurity for the Department of Defense’s future Hybrid Space Architecture.
"[32] The platform relies on containerized workloads, in which bits of code are bundled together with all the files they need to run independently of other blocks of information.