A small team in Rīga building cloud storage that respects you.
5sync was born in Rīga in 2023, in a country with a quietly thriving tech scene and some of Europe's strongest privacy convictions. Latvia is home to MikroTik, one of the world's largest networking equipment makers, and runs one of the EU's most respected national cybersecurity centres — CERT.LV. We grew up in this ecosystem and saw firsthand what happens when technology is built to empower people rather than exploit them. Meanwhile, Big Tech was scanning our files for ads, training AI on our documents, and selling our attention to the highest bidder. We decided to build the alternative.
5sync is simple, private storage with zero-knowledge encryption — we mathematically cannot access your files, even if compelled to. Our client applications are fully open source, our security model is published and independently audited, and our business model is refreshingly boring: you pay for storage, and that's it. No ads, no tracking, no data mining. We're a small team from Rīga doing one thing well, and we plan to keep it that way.
Founder & CEO
Former MikroTik engineer with 12 years building secure networking systems. Privacy advocate who contributed to Latvia's national cybersecurity framework at CERT.LV.
CTO
Led infrastructure at Printful for 3 years, scaling global e-commerce fulfillment systems across 30+ countries. Brings 10 years of distributed systems expertise to 5sync.
Head of Security
Former researcher at the Institute of Mathematics and Computer Science at the University of Latvia, specializing in cryptographic protocols. Contributed to Latvia's eID and digital signature infrastructure.
We charge for storage, not for your attention or data. No ads, no tracking, no profiling. Our incentives are aligned with yours.
Our client applications are fully open source. Our security model is published. Our infrastructure is audited. Trust is verified, not promised.
We're a small team and proud of it. No bloat, no feature creep, no enterprise sales theater. We do one thing and do it well.
Founded 2023 · Rīga, Latvia · 5,000+ users