Our Story

We got tired of
losing our own files.

So we built Extra Drive — the storage we always wanted. Fast, private, honest, and built to last.

50K+
Active users
2 PB
Files stored
99.9%
Uptime
Dropbox kept raising prices. Google kept scanning everything. We kept losing sleep over backups that didn't run.
A
Alex Mercer
Co-founder & CEO
How it started

Built out of frustration,
shipped out of care.

In 2022, two engineers and a designer got together after yet another "storage full" notification hit at the worst possible moment. A client presentation. A video export. A final thesis draft. Gone — or at least unreachable.

We weren't trying to beat Dropbox. We were trying to build the thing we'd actually want to use ourselves. Something that backed up silently, synced instantly, and never made us feel like the product instead of the customer.

Three years later, Extra Drive protects files for over 50,000 people who feel exactly the same way.

What we believe

The principles we ship by.

Every decision — product, pricing, privacy — runs through these six filters. If it doesn't pass, it doesn't ship.

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Privacy by default

Your files are encrypted end-to-end. We can't read them. We won't sell metadata. We don't run ad models. Full stop.

Speed is a feature

Slow sync defeats the purpose of backup. We obsess over transfer speeds, delta sync, and background efficiency so you never notice we're running.

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Radical honesty

No dark patterns. No hidden renewal traps. No surprise overages. Pricing is posted publicly, explained clearly, and never changes without notice.

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Built to last

We're not chasing growth at any cost. We want Extra Drive to be a reliable part of your workflow for decades — not an acquisition target.

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Users over metrics

We don't have engagement targets or daily active user pressure. We measure success by how rarely you think about your storage.

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Own your problems

When something breaks, we tell you immediately, explain what happened, and fix it — no corporate-speak, no blame-shifting, no hiding behind status pages.

The team

Small team. Big standards.

We're a team of eight. We intend to stay small, stay focused, and ship things that actually work.

Alex Mercer
Alex Mercer
Co-founder & CEO
Former infrastructure engineer at Cloudflare. Has strong opinions about file naming conventions.
Sara Kim
Sara Kim
Co-founder & CTO
Built distributed systems at AWS for six years. Treats uptime like a personal obligation.
James Rowan
James Rowan
Head of Design
Believes most software is too complicated. Deletes more than he adds. Previously at Linear.
Lena Torres
Lena Torres
Head of Support
Responds to every ticket personally. Has a 4.9 average rating and a no-script policy.
Backed by people who get it
Sequoia Y Combinator Andreessen Horowitz First Round

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