Akamai's Competitors, Revenue, Number of Employees, Funding and Acquisitions

Akamai is a provider of cloud services for delivering, optimizing and securing online content and business applications.

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7,745

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Annual Revenue

Based on data from Akamai's latest SEC filings

Employees

Co-Founder & CEO

Tom Leighton

CEO Approval Rating

81/100

OVERVIEW

Founded:

1998

Headquarters:

CambridgeMassachusetts

Status:

PublicIndependent Company of NASDAQAKAM

Industry Sector:

Internet Software

SIC Code:

7372NAICS listing »

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Competitive Analysis

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Level 3 is Akamai's #1 rival. Level 3 was founded in 1985 in Broomfield, Colorado. Level 3 is in the Telecommunications Equipment field. Level 3 generates $5.4B more revenue than Akamai.

CDNetworks is one of Akamai's top competitors. CDNetworks is headquartered in Seoul, Seoul Teugbyeolsi, and was founded in 2000. CDNetworks competes in the IT Services field. CDNetworks generates 3.54% the revenue of Akamai.

AWS is seen as one of Akamai's top competitors. AWS was founded in 2006, and its headquarters is in Seattle, Washington. Like Akamai, AWS also operates in the Internet Software space. AWS has 17,481 more employees than Akamai.

Tom Leighton

Co-Founder & CEO

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7,519

$277.4M

$2.8B

Jeffrey K. Storey

President & CEO

65/100

12,600

- -

$14.2B

CEO

- -

400

$96.5M

$99M

Andy Jassy

CEO

77/100

25,000

- -

$25.6B

Artur Bergman

CEO

77/100

489

$607M

$184.7M

Matthew Prince

Co-Founder & CEO

89/100

1,069

$957M

$192.7M

Robert A. Lento

President & CEO

99/100

510

$370M

$182.5M

Alex Kazerani

Chairman & CEO

70/100

337

$74M

$146.4M

Cheong Kong Wai

Co-Founder & CEO

68/100

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CEO

- -

$15M

Christopher Hylen

President & CEO

56/100

993

$143.7M

$351.8M

The top 10 competitors in Akamai's competitive set are Level 3, CDNetworks, AWS, Fastly, Cloudflare, Limelight Networks, EdgeCast, SwiftServe, MaxCDN and Imperva. Together they have raised over 2.2B between their estimated 40.1K employees. Akamai has 7,519 employees and is ranked 3rd among it's top 10 competitors. The top 10 competitors average 4,456.

Quarterly and Annual Revenue

Trailing 12-Months Trend (TTM)

Annual Revenue

$2.8B

Akamai's revenue is the ranked 3rd among it's top 10 competitors. The top 10 competitors average 4.4B. Over the last four quarters, Akamai's revenue has grown by 5.3%. Specifically, in Q2 2019's revenue was $705.1M; in Q1 2019, it was $706.5M; in Q4 2018, it was $713.4M; in Q3 2018, Akamai's revenue was $669.6M.

Acquisitions

COMPANY ACQUIRED

ACQUISITION DATE

AMOUNT

DESCRIPTION

ChameleonX, Ltd.

Oct 2019

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$20M

ChameleonX develops a web-based server security platform that allows businesses to protect assets from third-party threats and vulnerabilities.

Krypton

Sep 2019

Source »

undisclosed

Krypt develops a mobile-based authentication platform that allows developers to store their private encryption keys using smartphones.

Exceda

Sep 2019

Source »

undisclosed

Exceda provides web performance and security, and Content Delivery Network management solutions for finance, banking and corporate sectors.

Janrain, Inc.

Jan 2019

Source »

undisclosed

Janrain is a provider of customer identity and access management, security and activation solutions.

Nominum, Inc.

Oct 2017

Source »

$180.3M

Nominum is a provider of DNS and carrier-grade cybersecurity solutions for enterprises and managed networks.

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These are all the companies that Akamai has acquired. Akamai has acquired 22 companies and its latest acquisition was ChameleonX, Ltd. in Oct 2019. ChameleonX develops a web-based server security platform that allows businesses to protect assets from third-party threats and vulnerabilities.

Akamai Funding History

Since Akamai was founded in 1998, it has participated in 3 rounds of funding. In total Akamai has raised $277.4M. Akamai's last funding round was on Oct 1999 for a total of $234.0M

IPO

Oct 1999

$234M

Series B

May 1999

$35M

Battery Ventures

Series A

Oct 1998

$8.4M

Total Funding: $277.4M

Since Akamai was founded in 1998, it has participated in 3 rounds of funding. In total Akamai has raised $277.4M. Akamai's last funding round was on Oct 1999 for a total of $234.0M

Investments

Noobaa is a data management and storage platform that helps cloud providers and enterprises to manage and recover the unstructured data.

May 17, 2017

Seed

Nov 01, 2018

ClearSky offers cloud data management solutions for enterprise storage, DR and offsite backups.

$27M

Oct 25, 2015

Series B

FireLayers develops security solutions for organizations to control and protect their cloud applications.

Oct 19, 2015

Equity

Oct 01, 2016

Rubicon Labs is a cyber security firm that develops secure communication products and protocols for device manufacturers and content providers.

$11M

Apr 07, 2015

Series A

Saguna is an open platform that serves content and applications to mobile users directly from the 4G Radio Access Network.

$5M

Feb 11, 2015

Equity

These are all the companies that Akamai has invested in. Akamai has invested 22 companies and its latest investment was ChameleonX, Ltd. in Oct 2019. ChameleonX develops a web-based server security platform that allows businesses to protect assets from third-party threats and vulnerabilities.

Akamai News

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Akamai to Acquire ChameleonX to Enhance Threat Detection Tech

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Akamai Blogs

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October 11, 2019Akamai Blog

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Faster On-Boarding for Performance and Security Products

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Introducing Serverless Computing at the Edge with Akamai EdgeWorkers

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Access Revocation: A Content Provider's Tool to Block Pirates in Real time

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Akamai Press Releases

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March 28, 2019PR Newswire Asia

Akamai Introduces Edge Platform Enhancements

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Akamai Reports Fourth Quarter 2018 And Full-Year 2018 Financial Results

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January 10, 2019PR Newswire

Akamai to Hold Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2018 Investor Conference Call on Tuesday, February 12, at 4:30 PM ET

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January 10, 2019StreetInsider

Akamai to Hold Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2018 Investor Conference Call on Tuesday, February 12, at 4:30 PM ET

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Akamai Unveils Solutions at IBC 2018 Designed to Mitigate the Challenges and Costs of Cloud Computing and Streaming TV for Broadcasters

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