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Akamai Technologies

Founders Jonathan Seelig Kent Roberts Randall Kaplan Tom Leighton

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Total investments 22
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$13M
Portfolio companies 22
Rounds per year 0.88
Lead investments 2
Exits 8
Key employees 1

Areas of investment

  • Information Technology
  • Internet
  • Cloud Computing
  • Security
  • Software
Summary

Akamai Technologies is the famous Corporate Investor, which was founded in 1998. The company was established in North America in United States. The main office of represented Corporate Investor is situated in the Cambridge.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3-4 partakers. Despite the Akamai Technologies, startups are often financed by Microsoft ScaleUp Tel Aviv, YL Ventures, Weston Presidio Capital. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are iVentures Asia Ltd, YL Ventures, Thomson multimedia. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by iVentures Asia Ltd, Polaris Partners, Pear Tree Partners.

Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Internet, Cyber Security. For fund there is a match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - United States. The fund has no exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. When startup sums 4 or 5+ of the founder, the probability for it to get the investment is little. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline ClearSky Data, Saguna, SOHA SYSTEMS Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund.

The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2000. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 deals per year. The important activity for fund was in 2015. Opposing the other organizations, this Akamai Technologies works on 21 percentage points more the average amount of lead investments. Speaking about the real fund results, this Corporate Investor is 5 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations.

The fund was created by Jonathan Seelig, Kent Roberts, Randall Kaplan, Tom Leighton.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Valence Security

Network Security
Security
$25M26 Oct 2022 Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv, Israel

Commonwealth Crypto

Cryptocurrency
Information Technology
$6M02 Mar 2022 Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Inrupt

Information Services
Information Technology
Open Source
Web Development
$30M09 Dec 2021 Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Edgegap

$7M10 Nov 2021 Saint-jean-sur-richelieu, Quebec, Canada

InfoSum

Advertising
Big Data
Information Technology
Privacy
Security
$15M01 Sep 2020 Basingstoke and Deane, England, United Kingdom

Trusona

Cyber Security
Information Services
Information Technology
Internet
Network Management Software
$20M14 Jan 2020 Scottsdale, Arizona, United States

Hermetic Security

Financial Services
Mobile
Security
$800K01 Nov 2015 North District

SOHA SYSTEMS

Cloud Computing
Enterprise Software
Network Security
$9M07 Apr 2015 Sunnyvale, California, United States

Rubicon Labs

Cyber Security
Internet of Things
Network Security
Software
$12M29 Oct 2014 San Francisco, California, United States

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Total investments 22
Average round size 13M
Rounds per year 0.88
Peak activity year 2000
Lead investments 2
Exits 8
Group Appearance index 1.00

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Valence Security

Network Security
Security
$25M26 Oct 2022 Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv, Israel

Commonwealth Crypto

Cryptocurrency
Information Technology
$6M02 Mar 2022 Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Inrupt

Information Services
Information Technology
Open Source
Web Development
$30M09 Dec 2021 Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Edgegap

$7M10 Nov 2021 Saint-jean-sur-richelieu, Quebec, Canada

InfoSum

Advertising
Big Data
Information Technology
Privacy
Security
$15M01 Sep 2020 Basingstoke and Deane, England, United Kingdom

Trusona

Cyber Security
Information Services
Information Technology
Internet
Network Management Software
$20M14 Jan 2020 Scottsdale, Arizona, United States

Hermetic Security

Financial Services
Mobile
Security
$800K01 Nov 2015 North District

SOHA SYSTEMS

Cloud Computing
Enterprise Software
Network Security
$9M07 Apr 2015 Sunnyvale, California, United States

Rubicon Labs

Cyber Security
Internet of Things
Network Security
Software
$12M29 Oct 2014 San Francisco, California, United States
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