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

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in 2013.

Acquisitions

* MaxCDN ( CDN), 2016 * Staminus ( DDoS mitigation), 2016 * Fireblade ( WAF), 2016 * Cloak ( VPN), 2016 * Highwinds Network Group ( CDN and VPN), 2017 * Server Density ( Monitoring)

Subsidiaries

MaxCDN

NetDNA, LLC was founded in 2009 as a

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(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, Ben Neumann 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 IPVanish (acquired as part of the Highwinds Network Group) and Encrypt.me (the new brand of Cloak), to

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. In August 2023, Stackpath sold its CDN line of business (primarily approximately 100 select enterprise customer contracts as well as other assets) to Akamai following its decision to cease its content delivery network operations. The transaction did not include the acquisition of StackPath personnel or technology.

Investors

StackPath has received funding from investors includin
Abry Partners

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, and

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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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