Smartlockr

Smartlockr sells a secure email and large-file-transfer platform built around a specific, well-documented failure mode: employees sending sensitive information to the wrong recipient, attaching the wrong file, or forgetting to encrypt a message that should have been protected. The platform layers encryption, recipient-verification prompts, and policy-based data-loss-prevention checks onto existing email clients (Outlook/Gmail) so that outbound messages get the right protection without requiring end users to change how they send email day to day.

Founded in 2013 and headquartered in Amsterdam, Netherlands, Smartlockr has grown to a lean team of roughly 15-22 employees while reporting over 500 customer organizations, concentrated among healthcare providers, government agencies, and private companies in the Benelux and Nordic regions. The company has raised multiple funding rounds from Dutch investors, including NextGen Ventures 2 and the Security of Things Fund (Value Creation Capital) in 2021, and an additional round involving Round2 Capital in February 2023 to fund international expansion.

Smartlockr’s category—secure email/DLP for outbound communications—is well established, with competitors ranging from large data-protection suites to point solutions like Egress and Zivver. Smartlockr’s differentiation is a people-centric framing: rather than only blocking risky sends outright, it nudges users at the point of sending and treats human error as the primary threat model, which is a reasonable response to the well-documented statistic that misdirected email is a leading cause of reported data breaches in regulated industries like healthcare.