MakeSpace 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.

"It has been amazing to see what MakeSpace has accomplished in the past year alone, growing from 4 to 24 markets almost overnight, and adding another 7 in 2020. They have taken a unique approach to storage that answers the modern customer's demand for convenience, using technology to enhance the service and grow at an immense scale," said Deirdre Evens, Executive Vice President and General Manager of North America Records and Information Management at Iron Mountain. "Especially now, services such as MakeSpace are delivering vital solutions for customers and businesses. MakeSpace has proven itself as an industry leader, finding new ways to offer support and services for this challenging time. We continue to be both proud and excited about our partnership with MakeSpace and the opportunity to leverage Iron Mountain's storage and logistics expertise to further penetrate the fast growing valet consumer storage market."

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.

"As we think about what the post-COVID world will bring, the current realities have only reinforced the significance and importance of space. With everyone spending more time at home, it's more important than ever that we're able to offer customers a convenient, affordable, and safe storage solution," said Rahul Gandhi, co-founder and CEO of MakeSpace. "This new round of funding will enable us to expand the ways in which we support our customers even further, whether that's through the products and technology we develop or the new locations we reach."

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.

ABOUT MAKESPACE
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.

ABOUT IRON MOUNTAIN
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.