Company:Snapt Inc.
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| Type | Private |
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| Industry | Computer Software |
| Headquarters | Atlanta, Georgia, United States |
Key people | Founder and CEO: David Blakey |
| Products | Application delivery controller Load balancing |
| Website | snapt.net |
Snapt Inc. is a software company that provides load balancing, acceleration, security and caching for websites, applications and services.
The company’s primary product is the Snapt application delivery controller or ADC.
History
Snapt Inc. was founded in 2012 in South Africa and has an office, and headquarters, in Atlanta, Georgia.[1]
Competitors include: F5 Networks, KEMP Technologies, Cisco Systems, and Citrix Systems.
Business
Snapt Inc.’s product range helps optimize and offload content, as well as spread requests between various servers to ensure that websites, applications, and services load as quickly as possible.[2]
The company achieved year-on-year growth of 400% in both 2014 and 2015.[3] By 2016, Snapt Inc’s load balancing and web acceleration offering had been used by over 10,000 clients in 50 countries [4] including: Intel, Target, Cisco Systems and MTV. [5]
In mid-2016, the company raised $1 million in investment funding, from private equity and venture capital firm, Convergence Partners.[6]
Technology
Snapt Inc’s ADC solution includes a layer 7 load balancer, web accelerator for web acceleration and caching, as well as a web application firewall.[7]
The company's offerings are virtual machine (VM) and cloud-based.[3]
External links
References
- ↑ "SA’s Snapt opens US office as it exceeds 10k customers". http://disrupt-africa.com/2015/05/sas-snapt-opens-us-office-as-it-exceeds-10k-customers/.
- ↑ "SA-based Snapt expands after nabbing $1m in funding". http://ventureburn.com/2016/06/sa-based-snapt-expands-1m-funding/.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 "SA start-up Snapt scores $1 million in funding". BusinessTech. https://businesstech.co.za/news/software/125307/sa-start-up-snapt-scores-1-million-in-funding/. Retrieved 2017-05-20.
- ↑ "How one African Misruptive Innovation Company Is Storming a Key US Market". Sable Network. https://www.sablenetwork.com/inspirations/advancements-achievements/how-one-african-misruptive-innovation-company-is-storming-a-key-us-market. Retrieved 2017-05-20.
- ↑ Oxford, Tamsin "In a Snapt", Brainstorm Magazine, South Africa, 2017-03-23. Retrieved on 2017-05-23
- ↑ "App Delivery Software Snapt Receives $1M in Growth Funding". http://www.finsmes.com/2016/05/app-delivery-software-snapt-receives-1m-in-growth-funding.html.
- ↑ "SA software startup Snapt raises $1m to aid expansion". http://disrupt-africa.com/2016/06/sa-software-startup-snapt-raises-1m-to-aid-expansion/.
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