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Fastly
Other B2B Software · San Francisco, United States · Founded 2011 · IPO 2019 Unicorn
Content delivery network (CDN) that gives businesses complete control over how they serve content, unprecedented access to real-time performance analytics, and the ability to cache frequently changing content at the edge
Fastly mafia
Startups founded by Fastly alumni
Former Fastly employees who went on to start their own companies. Sorted by Dealroom signal score.
Marty KaganUnited States
Sarah SandnesUnited States
Bryce VerdierUnited States
Joshua BixbyCanada
Dana WolfUnited States
Christopher BrownUnited States
Jason EvansMexico
Jesse RobbinsUnited States
Andrew PetersonUnited States
Jonathan BixbyCanadaGlobal footprint
Where Fastly has talent and traffic
(3 of 1,385 staff)
team presence
across markets
Patent intelligence
$29M patent portfolio · 48 active families
Where Fastly concentrates vs peers
Each axis is a top-10 topic across Fastly 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
Fastly's 5 investments and acquisitions.
Every disclosed deal where Fastly appeared as a backer or acquirer, 2014–2023. 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.
5 deals across Fastly's capital deployment.
Where the deals concentrate by sector, stage, and decade.
01 · Deployment strategy vs peers
Where Fastly 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
Fastly'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”.
Sentiment on X
What X is saying about Fastly
An AI-synthesized read of the highest-engagement posts about Fastly 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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