AvePoint

AvePoint sells the AvePoint Confidence Platform, a data security, backup, governance and compliance suite built around Microsoft 365 and extending to Google Workspace and Salesforce. Its core value proposition is helping organizations back up, classify, secure and govern the sprawling volume of collaboration and file data that lives in SaaS platforms — a problem that grows as organizations lean harder on Microsoft Teams, SharePoint and OneDrive. More recently, the company has pushed into governance for agentic AI, aiming to give organizations visibility and control over what data AI copilots and agents can access and act on inside those same SaaS environments.

Founded in 2001 and headquartered in Jersey City, New Jersey, AvePoint went public on Nasdaq (AVPT) in 2021 via a SPAC merger. It has grown to roughly 3,000 employees, up about 16% year-over-year in 2025, and reports more than 28,000 customers globally, built on a long-standing relationship with the Microsoft partner ecosystem.

AvePoint’s position is that of a mature, financially transparent incumbent rather than a disruptive newcomer: it is iterating steadily on an established SaaS data management category, with its AI-governance push being a timely but incremental extension of existing data classification and access-control capabilities rather than a new technology category. Its scale and customer count give it real credibility, tempered by the fact that its own ‘global leader’ framing is self-reported marketing language rather than an independently verified ranking.