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Akamai Technologies
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Blurb
Akamai is a provider of cloud services that help enterprises provide secure, high-performing user experiences on any device.
HQ Location
Cambridge (United States)
Founded
1998
Employees
5001 - 10000
Total funding raised
$1.14B
Last Funding Event
Post-IPO Debt, $1.10B, August 15, 2023
Smart insights
- Catherine Msc (Chief People Officer) worked at Lilium as Head of People Business Partnering for 1.5 years (2021 - 2022)
- Val Miftakhov (Founder & CEO) worked at Google in various roles, including Head of R&D, Google for Work Incubation, for a total of 4 years (2012 - 2016)
- 6m headcount growth: 25%
- 1Y headcount growth: 94%
- Headcount-to-last-round ratio: 5.3 employees/$M
Akamai operates a content delivery network, which entails locating servers at the edges of networks so its customers, which store content on Akamai servers, can reach their own customers faster, more securely, and with better quality. Akamai has over 325,000 servers distributed over 4,100 points of presence in more than 1,000 cities worldwide. The firm also offers security and cloud computing for its customers, and those businesses have grown to be bigger than the legacy CDN.