Company:Aryaka
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| Type | Private |
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| Industry | Cloud computing |
| Founded | 2009 |
| Headquarters | San Mateo, California |
| Website | www |
Aryaka is a company that provides wide-area software-defined networking (SD-WAN) connectivity and application delivery. Aryaka is headquartered in San Mateo, California with additional offices located in London, United Kingdom, Bengaluru, India , Beijing, China, and Singapore.
History
Aryaka was founded in 2009 by Ajit Gupta,[1] Rajeev Bharadhwaj[2] and Ashwath Nagaraj. Gupta previously founded Speedera Networks, a content delivery network (CDN) acquired by Akamai Technologies in 2005 for stock valued at $500 million.[3] Bharadhwaj was previously at cloud service provider Ejasent Inc, acquired by Veritas in 2004 for $59 million.[4] Nagaraj was previously at Allegro Systems (acquired by Cisco Systems in 2001 for $185 million)[5] and founder of Assured Access Technologies (acquired by Alcatel in 1999 for $350 million).[6]
Aryaka announced its service in September 2010.
Aryaka raised $50 million from Goldman Sachs Growth Equity Fund. Previously it had raised a smaller $14M Series-E and had earlier received $45 million in Series D funding in a round led by from Third Point Ventures, adding new investor Deutsche Telekom Capital Partners (DTCP), and with participation from existing investors. In March 2016, it received $16 million in Series C funding from existing investors, Nexus Venture Partners. It previously received $10 million in Series C funding from Trinity Ventures, $25 million in series C funding led by Interwest Partners,[7] $15 million in series B funding and $14 million in series A funding from Trinity Ventures, Mohr Davidow Ventures, and Nexus Venture Partners.[8] Aryaka's foundational multi-segment WAN optimization patent was granted as a US patent in July 2013.[9]
Aryaka built a network to offer its managed wide-area network (WAN). It develops its own technology that includes WAN optimization, multi-cloud connectivity including AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, Oracle Cloud, and Alibaba Cloud, and delivers security as-a-service with partners that include Checkpoint, Palo Alto Networks, and Zscaler.
See also
References
- ↑ Rogers, Bruce (November 19, 2012). "How Ajit Gupta's Aryaka is Disrupting the Wide Area Network Business". https://www.forbes.com/sites/brucerogers/2012/11/19/how-ajit-guptas-aryaka-is-disrupting-the-wide-area-network-business/.
- ↑ "SEC Form D filing". SEC. May 21, 2009. https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1464669/000146466909000001/xslFormDX01/primary_doc.xml.
- ↑ "Akamai to Buy Speedera". March 17, 2005. https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F0CE4D6133CF934A25750C0A9639C8B63/.
- ↑ "Veritas Capital acquires Ejasent for $59 million" (Press release). Veritas Capital. January 7, 2004 – via Dealipedia.
- ↑ "Cisco Systems to Acquire Allegro Systems: Accelerating the Performance of VPN and Security Solutions". Cisco Newsroom. July 27, 2001. http://www.newsroom.cisco.com/dlls/corp_072701.html/.
- ↑ D'Amico, Mary Lisbeth (March 5, 1999). "Alcatel Buys Assured". http://www.computerworld.com.au/article/68762/alcatel_buy_assured_launch_ip_division/.
- ↑ Gage, Deborah (July 17, 2012). "Scrambling to Grow Fast Enough When Customers are Everywhere". https://blogs.wsj.com/venturecapital/2012/07/17/scrambling-to-grow-fast-enough-when-customers-are-everywhere/.
- ↑ "Aryaka: Stop Sending the Same File Twice". September 21, 2010. https://www.nytimes.com/external/venturebeat/2010/09/21/21venturebeat-aryaka-networks-stop-sending-the-same-files-75631.html/.
- ↑ Bharadhwaj, Rajeev; Ajit Gupta & Ashwath Nagaraj, "Application acceleration as a service system and method.", US patent 8489685, issued July 7, 2013, assigned to Aryaka Networks, Inc.
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