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Akamai
A cloud service provider
At a glance
- Founded
- 1998
- Headquarters
- Cambridge, United States
- Listing
- IPO 1999
- Sector
- Cybersecurity
- Power Law
- Decacorn$10B+ valuation tierThoroughbred$100M+ revenue
Latest news
Press, funding announcements and product moves mentioning Akamai.
Investors
From Dealroom's funding and investor records, grouped by the round each investor first entered.
Series A1 investor entered at this stage
Series B and later3 investors entered at this stage
- MTMassachusetts Institute of Technology
- BCBaker Capital
Battery Ventures
Source: Dealroom Talent Intelligence.
Alumni founders
Former Akamai employees who went on to found companies, sorted by Dealroom signal score.
UBUberEst. 2009
Travis KalanickUnited States
SNSnykEst. 2015
Guy PodjarnyUnited States
AAAgency AIEst. 2023
WIWisdomAIEst. 2023
BUBuckleEst. 2017
Dustin WalseyUnited StatesGlobal footprint
team presence
across markets
Patents
320 active patent families included in this estimate.
A patent family groups patent filings for the same invention. Source: Dealroom · PatSnap.
Investments and acquisitions
Disclosed deals where Akamai was the 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.
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.
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
An AI-synthesised read of the highest-engagement posts about Akamai on X, ranked by likes and reposts, corporate channels excluded.
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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