Cloudflare is the 2nd unicorn to IPO in our industry in 2019. It joins the chorus of Akamai, Fastly, and Limelight Networks in the public market. Combined, these four deliver a significant volume of the world’s content, video, and applications
Last Friday, Fastly announced it had filed an IPO with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. The number of shares that will be offered and the price range for the proposed offering have not yet been set. Fastly is expected
In the race to go public, who will go first – Cloudflare, Fastly or StackPath? The CDN industry has been in a dry spell for 11 years and counting. Akamai went public in 1999, nearly 20 years ago. Their shares
The Origins of Fastly – from a Startup to Industry-Leading Next-Gen CDN Fastly was founded by technologist and entrepreneur Artur Bergman in 2011 as a CDN. He was previously CTO at Wikia, a Quantcast Top 20 site, where he built
Few days ago, DigitalOcean, a cloud computing platform for hosting applications that prioritizes developers and their teams, named a new CEO in Mark Templeton. Templeton will officially start at the company on July 1, 2018. He will also join the
Zscaler, a San Jose-headquartered global cloud-based information security firm, reported a revenue of $126M in the 2017 fiscal year and $84M in the six months leading up to January 31, 2018, representing a year-over-year growth of 51%. Last week, the
Kuaishou, a Chinese live-video streaming start-up, whose name means “fast hand” in Chinese, is nearing the end of a $1 billion funding round led by Tencent, and has plans to list later this year, according to Nasdaq. Kuaishou is emerging
Cloud-based private networks provider Aryaka Networks has announced its intentions to IPO in 2018, aiming for a $1 billion valuation. Aryaka currently builds private cloud networks for more than 500 enterprises, enabling them to link branch offices globally. Notable customers
