In May 2021 Jamf acquired zero-trust software vendor Wandera for $400M.

Jamf had a successful IPO on the Nasdaq stock market in July 2020, raising $468 million and valuing the company at around $4.6 billion.

Jamf acquired three companies in 20 – Orchard and Grove, ZuluDesk and Digita Security, expanding its product portfolio to include identity and authentication management, an education-specific MDM, and endpoint security built for Mac using user behavior analytics. Vista Equity Partners acquired a majority of shares in Jamf in December 2017. IBM selected Jamf Pro to manage their Macs in 2015. Over a decade after its inception, The Casper Suite was rebranded as Jamf Pro in 2017. In 2015 Dean Hager was hired as CEO to replace Halmstad and Pearson, who had previously shared those duties. Jamf received a $30 million investment from Summit Partners in 2008. Apple growth in larger environments continued and Jamf developed tools to make Apple devices work in corporate environments. The company name came from Laszlo Jamf, a character in Thomas Pynchon's novel Gravity's Rainbow.

Minneapolis-based Jamf Software was founded in Eau Claire, Wisconsin, by Zach Halmstad, Christopher Thon and Chip Pearson and in 2002 released The Casper Suite.

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