Zycada develops bot-based software that prioritizes and accelerates interactive elements on web pages to reduce Time to Interactive (TTI) for e-commerce sites. The company's bots speed critical interactive content—such as buy buttons—to milliseconds, and Zycada claims up to 10x faster TTI than Amazon (Amazon typically takes 1.35 seconds). Zycada emerged from stealth with $19M in new funding and has already signed several very large customers, including one unnamed global retailer. Co-founders Subbu Varadarajan (CPO, who served as CEO previously) and Roy Antonyraj (CTO) built the product; James Brear has been appointed CEO to grow the business. The company plans to expand the technology beyond e-commerce into sectors like media and news as a potential alternative to approaches such as Google's AMP. According to PitchBook data cited in the reporting, Zycada had raised just under $11M in prior early-stage funding and did not disclose a valuation for this round.

Total raised

$19M

Funding rounds

1

Latest round

Equity

Latest activity

Jun 2020