This startup wants to be the Google for your personal data

Picture this: It’s an awfully busy day. In midst of all the chaos an email lands in your inbox, from your boss demanding certain documents urgently. What do you do? Spend next 30 minutes frantically searching for the documents across your multiple accounts. No luck. Panic sets in.

What if there was an easier way to do the same task in less than 5 minutes? That’s VaultEdge.

This new startup is aiming to be the Google for your personal data.

VaultEdge is a vault that will automatically organize all your documents from multiple accounts into categories like taxes, bill, and so on. It will let you search all your files from one place.

The web app currently supports Dropbox, Gmail, Google Drive, and Outlook. Evernote and Slack will also be added in a month, along with Windows desktop.

Here is how it works

Sign up with VaultEdge and give it access to all the accounts you would like it to organize and pull out files from. The application will use a spider search technique to search your mails and files, and it will categorize all of them under relevant fields.

If you are looking for something, VaultEdge uses machine learning to pull out the relevant information. The algorithm behind the application is trained to identify words like bills, salary slip, tax, and 12 other such categories. Even if the words are not mentioned in the body of the text, the algorithm has the intelligence to search through the attached document and filter it accordingly.

The technology behind VaultEdge can also create sub categories. Suppose you have multiple bills – mobile phone, electricity, water, and so on. The system will filter each under the name of the company, like Airtel bill or Vodafone bill. To make it easier, the document description will mention the time and period when the bill was generated and when you received it.

Usually, VaultEdge stores your documents on the cloud. But if you are worried about the security of your sensitive documents, you can choose not to store the data. In any case, the documents you click on will open in the original source.

There is really no need to worry, founder and CEO Sajeev Aravindan explains. “Our encryption is far superior. The data is broken down into thousands and thousands of tiny pieces. Each of these is encrypted.” So if a hacker is looking to play nasty with your data, it will take them years to crack the code, he adds.

Founder and CEO of VaultEdge, Sajeev Aravindan (Second from left), with his team. Photo credit: VaultEdge. 

The story so far

Sajeev was working with NetApp as a worldwide technology architect for storage and analytics when the idea struck him. “I would have at least 50 documents open at one time; some on my home computer and some at work. It was difficult to keep track of every document. I would download one document multiple times, having forgotten where I stored it,” Sajeev says.

What if all his digital data was accessible from one place, auto-classified and auto-tagged, so that he could easily find his documents, he thought. Sajeev soon started toying with the idea of using vault-like document storage for individual users.

What next?

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