22 May 2020
NEW YORK — May 21, 2020 —
MakeSpace secures $55 Million in serries E Funding, driving their mission to take over the antiquated $38B storage industry, new financing will fuel new products, more capabilities, and further expansion into 31 markets
MakeSpace, the fastest-growing on-demand storage company, announced that it has raised $55M in equity financing and some debt from the global leader in storage and information management services, Iron Mountain (NYSE: IRM), with participation from 8VC, Upfront Ventures, Maywic Select Investments, Ten Eighty, Provenio Capital, and CX Collective. This new funding follows a year of tremendous growth for MakeSpace, which included expansion to 20 additional markets in 2019 through its partnership with Iron Mountain, and its development of new product offerings such as disposal and shredding, and Seasonal Closet, which launched earlier this year.
The COVID-19 pandemic has presented a watershed moment for the storage industry. As the traditional self-storage giants are seeing reductions in demand and revenue due to the impact of lockdown measures and social distancing, MakeSpace has been designated as an essential service and continues to see increasing growth due to the convenience and flexibility it offers customers. MakeSpace has made it a priority to support those affected by the pandemic, through programs for college students forced out of their dorms, offering free storage to small businesses impacted by the crisis, and implementing contactless service and new sanitary measures in all affected areas.
To date, MakeSpace has scaled to 31 markets across North America, offering a growing number of storage-related services to home and business customers. To learn more about MakeSpace, visit www.makespace.com.
Founded in 2013, MakeSpace set out to make storage more convenient and consumer-friendly, creating an affordable, tech-enabled storage experience that’s reshaping the industry. Customers pay only for the space they need, and schedule pickups, drop-offs, and other services through an app and digital photo inventory. MakeSpace costs about the same as local self-storage options, but includes extra services and supplies that typically cost self-storage customers hundreds of dollars more. MakeSpace is headquartered in New York City, and is now available in 31 markets across North America. Find out more at www.makespace.com.
Iron Mountain Incorporated (NYSE: IRM), founded in 1951, is the global leader for storage and information management services. Trusted by more than 225,000 organizations around the world, and with a real estate network of more than 90 million square feet across more than 1,480 facilities in approximately 50 countries, Iron Mountain stores and protects billions of valued assets, including critical business information, highly sensitive data, and cultural and historical artifacts. They provide solutions that include information management, digital transformation, secure storage, secure destruction, as well as data centers, cloud services, art storage and logistics. Iron Mountain helps customers lower costs and risks, comply with regulations, recover from disaster, and enable a digital way of working. Visit http://www.ironmountain.com for more information.
