Proofpoint, a leader in cybersecurity and regulatory compliance, has announced the acquisition of Nuclei, Inc., a U.S.-based technology company specializing in archiving for regulatory compliance and AI-driven data enrichment applied to communications in today’s workplace environments.
This acquisition will strengthen Proofpoint’s market-leading Digital Communication Governance (DCG) solution, which offers advanced capabilities for capturing, retaining, and analyzing communications across collaboration platforms such as Microsoft Teams, Slack, Zoom, Webex, WhatsApp, and RingCentral Voice.
Additionally, Proofpoint will continue to support the integration of its solutions with a wide variety of archiving and data governance platforms, ensuring that its connectors maintain reliable interoperability and compliance across its clients’ various environments.
“This acquisition allows us to accelerate our mission to provide the most advanced and comprehensive AI-powered digital communications compliance platform on the market today, and we are very pleased to welcome the talented team at Nuclei to Proofpoint,” said Harry Labana, Senior Vice President and General Manager of Proofpoint’s DCG Business Unit. “By combining Proofpoint’s leading people-centric security platform with Nuclei’s pioneering technology, we can deliver better regulatory compliance to our customers while providing valuable insights from communication data, which will be a game-changer, especially in highly regulated industries.”
Nuclei’s platform enables organizations to:
Capture and archive data from hundreds of applications: Nuclei integrates with over 100 applications to automatically capture and archive messages, attachments, and metadata across collaborative tools.
Unlock AI transformation by enriching data: The platform offers voice recognition in over 120 languages, real-time transcription, automatic translation, and video analysis, enabling organizations to derive actionable insights from communication data.
Seamlessly integrate with existing archiving platforms: Nuclei integrates flawlessly with leading compliance archives, including Proofpoint, Smarsh, Global Relay, Arctera, and Microsoft Purview, ensuring organizations meet regulatory requirements.
- Benefit from scalability and security: Built on a serverless architecture following Amazon Web Services best practices, Nuclei emphasizes real-time compliance and robust security measures, including third-party audits conducted by firms like Vanta. It offers end-to-end encryption to protect data in transit, ensuring content is encrypted from capture to archival storage.
Human communication is a powerful source of information, capturing thoughts, intentions, and shared knowledge that can drive understanding of behavior, automate processes, and identify risks. Nuclei provides a comprehensive platform for capturing, archiving, and analyzing these communication data, allowing organizations to extract practical insights while ensuring regulatory compliance.
“At Nuclei, our mission is to democratize access to the world’s most valuable data by transforming workplace communications into structured, compliant, and actionable information,” said Eric Franzen, CEO of Nuclei, Inc. “This vision has driven our innovation from the very beginning. Partnering with Proofpoint allows us to expand that impact by helping the world’s largest organizations enhance productivity across hundreds of collaboration platforms while meeting increasing regulatory requirements.” Proofpoint has been recognized as a leader in Gartner’s 2025 Magic Quadrant for Digital Communication Governance and Archiving Solutions for the strength of its vision and execution.