StackPath is an American edge computing platform provider headquartered in Dallas, Texas. Its founding team was led by Lance Crosby, who also co-founded

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, acquired by IBM in 2013.

Acquisitions

* MaxCDN (

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), 2016 * Staminus (

DDoS mitigation DDoS mitigation is a set of network management techniques and/or tools, for resisting or mitigating the impact of distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks on networks attached to the Internet, by protecting the target, and relay networks. DD ...

), 2016 * Fireblade ( WAF), 2016 * Cloak (

VPN A virtual private network (VPN) extends a private network across a public network and enables users to send and receive data across shared or public networks as if their computing devices were directly connected to the private network. The be ...

), 2016 *

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(

and

), 2017 * Server Density (

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)

Subsidiaries

MaxCDN

NetDNA, LLC was founded in 2009 as a

content delivery network A content delivery network, or content distribution network (CDN), is a geographically distributed network of proxy servers and their data centers. The goal is to provide high availability and performance by distributing the service spatially re ...

(CDN) with a focus on enterprise customers. The company was founded by David Henzel and Christopher Ueland in

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. In 2010, NetDNA partnered with Wowza to launch the HDDN.com brand, a CDN for

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. By 2010, the MaxCDN brand was created as a simpler CDN for both small and large businesses. MaxCDN, LLC operated as a division of NetDNA, LLC. In 2011,

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was

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of NetDNA. In 2011, NetDNA completed a

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with Chelsea Management in Los Angeles. In 2013, NetDNA rebranded the company and its services as MaxCDN, conslidating other services such as HDDN.com under the same name, with the original NetDNA enterprise service rebranded as MaxCDN Enterprise. MaxCDN was acquired by StackPath in 2016.

Divestitures

In 2019, StackPath sold its VPN lines of business, including

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(acquired as part of the

) and Encrypt.me (the new brand of Cloak), to

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Investors

StackPath has received funding from investors includin
Abry Partners

Juniper Networks Juniper Networks, Inc. is an American multinational corporation headquartered in Sunnyvale, California. The company develops and markets networking products, including routers, switches, network management software, network security products, ...

, and

Cox Communications Cox Communications, Inc. (also known as Cox Cable and formerly Cox Broadcasting Corporation, Dimension Cable Services and Times-Mirror Cable) is an American digital cable television provider, telecommunications and home automation services. It i ...

Founders

StackPath was founded May 5, 2015, by Lance Crosby, Greg Bock, Steven Canale, Ryan Carter, Paul Drew, Kenji Fukasawa, Jason Gulledge, Andrew Higginbotham, James Leaverton, Andrew Maten, Dawn Mumm, Nick Nelson, and Josh Reese.

References

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