Trading name Kovurt Type Limited Company Headquarters Hong Kong Founder Danny Levinson | Native name Kovurt Limited Industry Privacy Software Area served Global Founded 2014 | |
Kovurt Limited is a Virtual Private Network (VPN) provider, internet privacy software products for Windows and Mac desktop computers, as well as mobile devices running Blackberry, iOS, Android, and Windows Phone operating systems.
History
Kovurt was incorporated in Hong Kong in January 2014, after being in closed beta in Beijing since 2012. Kovurt is currently headquartered in Cyberport. Kovurt was founded by Danny Levinson, a successful dotcom American entrepreneur. Kovurt’s first VPN service came out of beta in November 2014 and quickly gained large growth momentum by providing free and reduced rate services to the Umbrella Movement in Hong Kong. After the Umbrella Movement disbanded in Hong Kong, Kovurt’s VPN services gained more momentum with its Chinese-language versions for Mac, Windows and mobile devices.
In January 2015, media around the world reported on a supposed blockade of VPN services in China. As of May 2015, Kovurt was the top financial contributor to the Tunnelblick project, the world’s largest open source VPN software for Mac OS X.