# Tangent

> Tangent is a Burlingame, California hardware maker that builds computers for places a normal PC would die - hospital wards, oil refineries, factory floors and operating rooms. Founded in 1989 by Douglas Monsour and Mike Zabaneh, it started selling PCs to schools and government, then bet its future on machines that are sealed against fluids, wiped down with disinfectant, run without fans, and keep working where sparks could otherwise be fatal. It also sells software - email archiving, web filtering and VDI - and Microsoft cloud services, giving it an unusually wide footprint for a company of about 150 people.

- **Founded:** 1989
- **Headquarters:** Burlingame, California, United States
- **Founders:** Douglas Monsour (Founder, Chairman & CEO), Mike Zabaneh (Co-founder & COO)
- **Team size:** ~150 employees
- **Products:** Medical Grade Computers, Medical Tablets & SmartCarts, Antimicrobial Keyboards, Industrial & Rugged PCs, Explosion-Proof Computers
- **Notable:** Operating since 1989 - over 35 years in business., Pioneer of medical-grade and industrial-grade computers., Launched the VITA7450a, an early touchscreen all-in-one for medical environments (2005).

## Products & services

- **Medical Grade Computers** — UL60601-certified, IP65-rated all-in-one computers, tablets and monitors with antimicrobial housings, fanless designs and fully cleanable surfaces for clinical use.
- **Medical Tablets & SmartCarts** — Healthcare tablets, mobile carts, arm mounts and hot-swappable cart batteries for point-of-care computing.
- **Antimicrobial Keyboards** — SmartShield washable, antimicrobial keyboards designed for infection control in hospitals.
- **Industrial & Rugged PCs** — Industrial all-in-one panel PCs and rugged mini PCs built for factory floors and harsh environments.
- **Explosion-Proof Computers** — C1D2/C2D2/ATEX-certified computers (e.g. VITA G24) for hazardous locations like oil, gas and chemical sites.
- **DataCove** — Email archiving and eDiscovery appliance (and hosted service) that indexes, archives and retrieves email, faxes and IMs; also DataCove Security & Compliance.
- **Software & Cloud Solutions** — VDI/ICE data-center appliances, WebHawk/Upstream web filtering, DMARC, spam filtering, plus Microsoft 365, Azure, Intune, SCCM, Power BI and Teams services as a Microsoft Gold Partner.

## Achievements

- Operating since 1989 - over 35 years in business.
- Pioneer of medical-grade and industrial-grade computers.
- Launched the VITA7450a, an early touchscreen all-in-one for medical environments (2005).
- Introduced a medical-grade computer with hot-swappable batteries (2012).
- Built UL60601-certified, IP65-rated, antimicrobial, fanless clinical computers.
- Developed the award-winning DataCove email archiving appliance.

## Latest updates

- **2020-01** — Recorded a $840,000 Series A funding round.
- **2024-01** — Continued expansion of medical-grade and explosion-proof (C1D2/C2D2/ATEX) industrial computing lines.

## Links

- Website: https://www.tangent.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/tangent-computer
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/tangentincorp
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/TangentComputer
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/tangentincorporated

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Last updated: 2026-08-21