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Akamai
Cybersecurity · Cambridge, United States · Founded 1998 · IPO 1999
Akamai mafia
Startups founded by Akamai alumni
Former Akamai employees who went on to start their own companies. Sorted by Dealroom signal score.
Travis KalanickUnited States
Guy PodjarnyUnited States
Dustin WalseyUnited States
Arvind JainUnited States
Hanumantha KavuluruUnited States
Daniel SmithUnited States
Alexander GallegoUnited States
Ronni ZehaviUnited States
Steven Wolfe PereiraUnited StatesGlobal footprint
Where Akamai has talent and traffic
team presence
across markets
Talent graph
The shape of Akamai's talent
Dealroom maps Akamai's team person by person — pinpointing the standout operators and scoring them across the six dimensions investors underwrite. The counts and shape below are a public preview; the named individuals and exact scores live in the platform.
Source: Dealroom Talent Intelligence. Public profiles show counts and the team's shape only — request a demo for the named individuals, per-person seniority and tenure, and team benchmarks vs peers.
Patent intelligence
$147M patent portfolio · 320 active families
Where Akamai concentrates vs peers
Each axis is a top-10 topic across Akamai and its closest peers. #1 = 100, #10 = 10, absent = 0.
Source: Dealroom Patent Intelligence · Patsnap. Request a demo for the full per-sub-category breakdown, individual records, and quality-score history.
Capital deployed
Akamai's 39 investments and acquisitions.
Every disclosed deal where Akamai appeared as a backer or acquirer, 2000–2025. Toggle between venture rounds, M&A, or both. The map below is grouped by the target company's sector — the colored pill on each chip is the round type.
39 deals across Akamai's capital deployment.
Where the deals concentrate by sector, stage, and decade.
01 · Deployment strategy vs peers
Where Akamai deploys vs peers
Each axis is a Dealroom topic tag — picked from the cluster's most-tagged themes. Values are normalized per axis: the peer with the highest tag-coverage on that axis sits at the edge, others scale relative to them. Toggle between M&A, venture, or both.
02 · Portfolio market map
Akamai's portfolio, mapped.
Each chip is one company. Pill colour shows round type — green for Seed, blue for Series A, purple for B/C+, pink for late-stage, amber for M&A. Bigger sectors keep their full list behind “+ N more”.
Market sentiment
What the market is saying about Akamai
An AI-synthesized read of the highest-engagement posts about Akamai on X over the past 7 days. We rank by likes & retweets, ignore corporate channels, and surface the themes that broke out from real people.
Reading the room on X — pulling top posts and synthesizing themes…
Source: X recent search ranked by engagement (likes + retweets) · Synthesis by Claude · Cached for 1 hour
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Live deal flow, founder pedigree, hiring signals, revenue trajectory, and the full cap table.