# Exterro

> Exterro sells enterprise software for eDiscovery, digital forensics, and data governance. Its platform helps legal, privacy, IT, and investigative teams identify information, preserve evidence, manage reviews, and apply retention policies across corporate systems.

- **Founded:** 2008
- **Headquarters:** Portland, United States
- **Founders:** Bobby Balachandran (Founder and CEO), Ajith Samuel (Co-founder; Chief Product Officer), Shashidhar Angadi (Co-founder; Chief Technology Officer), Karthik Kalani (Co-founder; historically Chief Operating Officer)
- **Products:** Legal Hold & Preservation, eDiscovery Data Management and Review, FTK Forensic Toolkit, FTK Central, FTK Imager / FTK Imager Pro
- **Notable:** July 2022 recapitalization valued Exterro above USD 1 billion., Acquisitions connected Jordan Lawrence (2019), AccessData (2020), and Zapproved (2023)., Company reports 800,000 legal holds managed.

## Products & services

- **Legal Hold & Preservation** — Issues preservation notices, tracks responses, and supports preservation workflows.
- **eDiscovery Data Management and Review** — Identification, collection, processing, early case assessment, document review, and production.
- **FTK Forensic Toolkit** — Digital evidence processing, indexing, search, analysis, and reporting; joined Exterro through AccessData.
- **FTK Central** — Collaborative forensic investigations, evidence processing, review, and case management.
- **FTK Imager / FTK Imager Pro** — Free imaging and preview tool; paid Pro adds capabilities including live decryption with credentials and iOS logical collection.
- **Data Governance suite** — Data discovery and mapping, retention, processing records, assessments, consent, and data subject rights workflows.
- **Subpoena Manager** — Subpoena intake and response orchestration, introduced as the first product in the ARMOUR framework.
- **ARMOUR for FTK** — Agentic remote investigation capabilities on FTK Central, launched July 9.
- **ARMOURop** — On-premises forensic AI for labs seeking to keep case data inside their environment, introduced July 16.
- **Exterro Academy** — Product training and certification for forensic and other practitioners.

## Achievements

- July 2022 recapitalization valued Exterro above USD 1 billion.
- Acquisitions connected Jordan Lawrence (2019), AccessData (2020), and Zapproved (2023).
- Company reports 800,000 legal holds managed.

## Latest updates

- **2026-07** — July 16: introduced ARMOURop, an on-premises forensic AI product.
- **2026-07** — July 9: launched ARMOUR for FTK on FTK Central.
- **2026-05** — May 11: announced the ARMOUR framework and Subpoena Manager.
- **2025-11** — November 4: joined AWS ISV Accelerate.
- **2025-09** — September 24: launched FTK Imager Pro.

## Links

- Website: https://www.exterro.com/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/exterro-inc/
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/Exterro
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Exterro/

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Last updated: 2026-10-17