Just when you thought all CDN business models have been exhausted, here comes a new one. At Velocity, I came across Appcito, a Santa Clara based start-up founded in 2013, offering a very interesting service. Appecito raised $7.5M in Series
Teclo Networks, based in Zurich Switzerland is a five year old startup offering TCP Network Accelerator Appliances for Mobile Operators. The company was founded by Jane Walerud, a Standard Alumni, who worked at Telia and Ericsson, and Sean Hinde, an
Avi Networks is a networking start-up offering SDN+NFV software solutions that run on bare-metal hardware. They have raised $33M from Greylock Partners, Menlo Ventures and other top VC’s. Their mission is to disrupt the enterprise networking sector with its virtualization
Cyan started in 2006 and offers a comprehensive suite of SDN applications for carriers, network operators, cable operators, and data center companies. Cyan is a Silver Member of the OpenDaylight project, the largest global SDN open source organization, which includes
6WIND founded in 2000, is an emerging leader in the commercial SDN + NFV industry. They are based near Paris, France and count some of the world’s largest network manufacturers, carriers and technology companies as customers including Cisco, Alcatel-Lucent, and
Black Lotus, based in San Francisco with operations in LA is an up-and-coming DDoS Mitigation Provider focused on the Service Provider market. Its customers include OnApp and HubSpot. Black Lotus has five scrubbing centers in total, and protects companies against
Zenedge, the hot new CyberSecurity startup based in San Jose CA has just raised $3.5M in venture capital. Zenedge was founded by a veteran team of entrepreneurs who have vast experience working in the start-up ecosystem. Zenedge is a new
Bromium, the hot security start-up, was founded with its mission being to “restore trust in computing.” Bromium has pioneered the cyber security front with a unique approach; diverging from the traditional detection method, and instead focusing on a new tactic: isolation. Insisting that detection
Distil Networks is a leading security start-up founded in 2011 that has raised $10M in venture capital. Distil Networks offers an intelligent algorithm driven platform that detects and mitigates bot attacks, theft bots, click fraud, price scraping, content scraping and
Observable Networks, a cyber security startup, was founded in Clayton, MO by Dr. Patrick Crowley, a computer science professor at Washington University in 2011. Observable Networks has developed a cloud-based security system that offers advanced visibility into the behavior of
We are in beginning stages of a major shift occurring in the Cyber Security industry and CDN Ecosystem. It seems only a handful of companies understand what’s going on, and most are start-ups. Make no mistake, but the old guard
Saguna Networks is an innovative start-up that is taking mobile CDN to a whole new level, by extending CDN functionality into the mobile network, (3G and 4G RAN). Saguna Networks was started by Lior Fite and Danny Frydman, two veterans
Cyphort Inc, based in Santa Clara, has raised $23.7M dollars from Trinity Ventures and others. The company was founded by Ali Golshan and Fengmin Gong, two veterans of the security industry. Fengmin was Chief Scientist at McAfee, Chief Scientist and
Exabeam, the new startup based out of San Mateo, California, is suddenly getting a lot of attention for raising $13 million in series A funding from Norwest Ventures Partners, Aspect Ventures, and investor Shlomo Kramer. Scheduled to roll out by
Hexadite, a new security startup based in Tel-Aviv, has officially opened their doors this month, raising $2.5M from YL Ventures. The Hexadite team served in the Israeli Defense Forces, an elite intelligence unit within the Israeli Military, bringing deep experience
