After two years, Swiss crypto-messaging provider leaves beta
17 Mar 2016 at 11:53, Alexander J Martin Interview Secure email service ProtonMail has come out of beta and re-opened free registration to all for the first time in almost two years.
Applications to join the invite-only service had been backed up almost since the day it launched, as the free encrypted mail service quickly reached its upper capacity of users and struggled to grow to meet demand.
ProtonMail was launched back in May 2014 by scientists who had met at CERN and MIT, with a $550,000 crowd funding campaign. It also received $2m from Chales River Ventures and a Geneva-based startup accelerator, the Fondation Genevoise pour l’Innovation Technologique.
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