Alinto is the European provider of email services and email security solutions
Email communication has become a must in today’s business life: All businesses use email to communicate with customers, business partners and colleagues. Alinto takes care of the technology and ensures that the business email services run smoothly and securely: Thanks to us, more than 20 million emails are successfully sent every day. We believe continuous innovation combined with personalised professional services is the foundation for long-term customer satisfaction.
years of experience
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Steady innovation around a mature technology with an increased need for security and services.
Founded in 2000 by Philippe Gilbert to become an international player in the email business. Today, Alinto is a recognised long-term partner for thousands of European companies who entrust us with all aspects of their daily business email operations. Backed by Siparex, Alinto has been accelerating its international presence since 2016.
Philippe Gilbert brought together a team of experts to deploy Europe’s first cloud-based email messaging platform and the first web-based email accessible from a mobile phone!
The purpose of building a hosted exchange platform and bringing our value-added email services to Microsoft fans became a reality.
The Swiss email security specialist enhanced the capacities of Alinto’s solution capabilities and offered a local presence and infrastructure for our Swiss customers.
An important step to strengthen our presence in the Spanish market, where we established ourselves in 2015.
Welcoming the SOGo open source project in Alinto and creating the all-in-one SOGoMail solution.
As a pure player in email, Alinto concentrates on email technology in all its aspects. We have developed a unique set of expertise: email security, email deliverability and cloud email. Access our expertise through our three flagship email software solutions.
A partnership with Siparex allows Alinto to benefit from the reinforcement of its resources and establish an international expansion policy starting in 2016 with the purchase of the Swiss company Cleanmail, which has specialised in cloud-based antispam filtering since 2002.
In 2019, Alinto announced the acquisition of SerenaMail, the spam filtering business of Pricewin Networks, a Spanish email security specialist based in Barcelona, through the signature of a joint venture. Alinto thus confirms its development strategy and has continued its annual growth of more than 20% since 2015.
13 billion: That's the number of emails sent every hour worldwide, and the number is growing.
Since email technology was created in 1972, when Ray Tomlinson suggested using the “@” to separate the username from the machine, it has continually generated exceptional growth rates.
According to the Radicati Group, 4.1 billion email addresses were in use in 2021, which is expected to increase to over 4.5 billion by 2025.
Over half of the world’s population has an email address.
Undoubtedly, email will continue to be an essential marketing and communication tool.
Climate change and resource scarcity are key topics for us, and we are committed to doing our part to increase resource efficiency and reduce our carbon footprint.
Sending emails is not neutral for our environment. Every email sent has a carbon 4 CO2e carbon footprint. As an email solutions provider with sustainability commitments, we want to be at the forefront of limiting the impact of email technology.
But we do not limit our initiatives to our core activities. We decided to consider environmental impacts in a growing number of areas, step by step.
Educate our customers to use email intentionally and limit its use:
We extend the lifecycle of our servers to a minimum of 5 years and recycle the old ones as spare or non-critical operational units. We apply the same strategy for our office equipment.
Since 2020, we are moving all production units to environmentally friendly data centres using 100% renewable energy and a PUE below 1.1. Today, two sites are already in production, and the migration will be finished by 2025.
Our commutes are synonymous with efficiency and low environmental impact. Nearly half of the company avoids commuting (remote workers); for the rest, commuting one day a week is recommended. For other trips, we encourage public transportation and bicycling.
Business travel is sometimes necessary for an international company with operations in three countries and customers across Europe. However, we travel intentionally and limit business travel: We encourage video conferencing and travel by train whenever possible. Where this is not avoidable, we compensate for the use of air travel through an agreement with « Trip and Tree. »
We have replaced greeting cards and gifts with donations to NGOs to support, for example, the education of underprivileged students.
We are passionate to contribute to a technology used in any company, indispensable in everyday business life and requires continuous innovation to protect from misuse and malicious attacks.
We are a hybrid company rooted in flexibility. Alinto has offices in France, Spain and Switzerland. Employees can work from one of our offices, organise a mix of remote work and onsite presence or work entirely remotely.
Putting the human in the company's centre to move forward together towards the future.
At Alinto, we ensure that our customers’ email communications are safe and run smoothly. If you would like to get involved, either as a team member or as a business partner, simply follow the links below to find out more.
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