Panther Express is 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 ...

or "CDN" based in New York City. The company was founded in August 2005 by

Dwight Merriman Dwight Merriman is an American Internet executive, racing driver, and entrepreneur in New York City's Silicon Alley. Best known for co-founding DoubleClick with Kevin O'Connor and serving as its CTO for 10 years, Merriman currently serves as th ...

Kevin P. Ryan Kevin P. Ryan is an American investor and entrepreneur who has founded several New York-based businesses, including Gilt Groupe, ''Business Insider'' and MongoDB. Ryan helped grow DoubleClick from 1996 to 2005, first as president and later as CE ...

, Ryan Nitz and Pablo Mayrgundter. All the founders came from

DoubleClick DoubleClick Inc. was an advertisement company that developed and provided Internet ad serving services from 1995 until its acquisition by Google in March 2008. DoubleClick offered technology products and services that were sold primarily to adv ...

, a company co-founded by Dwight and headed by Kevin. On February 25, 2009, Panther Express and

CDNetworks Founded in 2000, CDNetworks is a full-service content delivery network (CDN) which provides technology, network infrastructure, and customer services for the delivery of Internet content and applications. The company is positioning itself as a mu ...

merged.

Investors

*2005 — Angel:

and

provide the undisclosed

seed capital Seed money, sometimes known as seed funding or seed capital, is a form of securities offering in which an investor invests capital in a startup company in exchange for an equity stake or convertible note stake in the company. The term ''seed'' su ...

. *2006 — Series A:

Greylock Partners Greylock Partners is one of the oldest venture capital firms, founded in 1965, with committed capital of over $3.5 billion under management. The firm focuses on early-stage companies in the consumer, enterprise software and infrastructure as wel ...

invests $6 million. *2008 — Series B:

Index Ventures Index Ventures is a European venture capital firm with dual headquarters in San Francisco and London, investing in technology-enabled companies with a focus on e-commerce, fintech, mobility, gaming, infrastructure/ AI, and security. Since its f ...

, Gold Hill Capital and Grelock Partners invest $15.75 million.Alley Insider - Panther Express Closes $16 Million Series B
/ref> *2009 — Merger with

References

External links

Panther Express home page

Akamai & the CDN Price Wars

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Investors

See also

References

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