SkyKick
The business, the turning points, and the decisions behind them.
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01 / WHAT IT BUILT
What the company did
SkyKick was a Seattle-based cloud automation and management software provider for IT service providers. Its Cloud Management Platform offered tools to migrate customers to Microsoft 365, cloud backup with unlimited storage and instant recovery for Exchange, OneDrive and SharePoint data, and Security Manager for partner security insights—serving more than 30,000 partners worldwide. It raised about $198 million, including a $130 million financing round in 2021.
02 / FAILURE REASONS
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03 / EVENT HISTORY
Events in the structured record
- Major financing
SkyKick raises $130 million in a financing round, employing about 250 people.
- Layoffs
In September 2023 SkyKick confirms laying off 140 employees worldwide (98 in the US), citing market conditions.
- Acquired by ConnectWise
ConnectWise announces it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire SkyKick (alongside Axcient), folding its cloud backup and management software into the ConnectWise Asio platform for managed service providers.
04 / CONTEMPORARY REBUILD ASSESSMENT
Difficulty of rebuilding this project today
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05 / CAUSAL CHAIN / AFTERMATH
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