
Akamai Technologies
145 Broadway, Cambridge, MA, 02142, United States
Overview
Akamai is the provider of cloud services for helping enterprises provide secure, high-performing user experiences on any device, anywhere. If you've ever shopped online, downloaded music, watched a web video or connected to work remotely, you've probably used Akamai's cloud platform. Akamai helps enterprises accelerate innovation in the hyperconnected world by removing the complexities of technology so you can focus on driving your business faster forward. We enable enterprises to capitalize on market opportunities presented by trends like mobile and cloud while overcoming the challenges presented by security threats and the need to reach users globally. The Akamai Intelligent Platform™ reaches globally and delivers locally, providing unmatched reliability, security and visibility into your online business.
- Total investments
- 15
- Lead investments
- 0
- Investments · 12mo
- 1
- Active investors
- 10
Sector focus
- Cyber Security
- Digital Media
- SaaS
- Software
- Video Streaming
Investment portfolio
- Hush Security
Participated · Series A · Jul 2026
Hush Security provides a platform that enrolls every AI agent and non-human identity in a central registry, removes standing credentials, grants scoped just-in-time permissions at runtime, logs every action, and offers a centralized kill switch. The company emphasizes discovery of managed and shadow agents, centralized control and least-agency enforcement, and end-to-end audit trails for governance and compliance. Founded by the team behind Meta Networks and less than a year out of stealth, Hush reports adoption by multiple Fortune 500 customers, including Kyndryl which has deployed and begun reselling the product. Hush has raised a total of $41 million to date, including a $30 million Series A led by strategic and existing investors. The company plans to use the new capital to expand engineering and sales headcount—especially in the U.S.—deepen integrations with enterprise IAM and AI platforms, and grow corporate partnerships.
- Hydrolix
Participated · Series C · Apr 2025
Hydrolix builds a streaming data lake platform that combines stream processing, decoupled storage, high-density compression and indexed search to enable real-time queries on large volumes of log data. The platform targets log-intensive use cases including security, observability, content delivery, adtech, AI/ML and regulatory compliance. Hydrolix has leaned into channel partnerships—notably a white‑label TrafficPeak offering with Akamai—and added AWS as a go-to-market partner while building connectors for ecosystems like Splunk, Databricks and Kibana. The company says it added 400+ customers in the past year, posted an eightfold sales increase year-over-year, and now earns more than 40% of revenue from international customers. Future plans for the funding include extending availability to additional cloud platforms, expanding the types and sources of data ingested, and amplifying sales momentum through regional partners and vertical expertise. Hydrolix builds a streaming data lake platform that provides a repository for log data and delivers that data to applications in real time. Its technology combines real-time stream processing, decoupled storage and low-latency indexed search to enable high-performance, cost-efficient log management. Hydrolix keeps all data “hot,” avoiding multiple storage tiers and claiming real-time query performance at terabyte scale. The platform powers log-intensive use cases across security, observability, AI/ML and sectors such as advertising, travel and retail, and can run on customers’ cloud infrastructure or as a partner data layer. Hydrolix reported annual recurring revenue of roughly $6 million, doubled revenue from Q3 to Q4 2023 and grew another 75% in Q1 2024; it serves about 90 customers and has a Portland, Oregon–based workforce of around 60. The company plans to scale its sales and partner channel operations as well as marketing and customer onboarding following the new funding. Hydrolix provides a real-time data platform designed to store and query logs, traces and metrics at much lower cost. It uses a custom storage layer that delivers SSD-like performance using cloud object storage and diskless spot instances, enabling fully indexed search without caching or bulk column scans. The architecture targets livestream ingest and ad-hoc data exploration workloads that traditional analytics systems struggle with. Hydrolix is currently compatible with AWS and offered through the Amazon Marketplace; versions for Azure and Google Cloud are expected later this year. The company was founded at the end of 2018, is headquartered in Portland, Oregon, and has about 20 employees spread across six countries. Investors and the company emphasize that the product eliminates common trade-offs between retention cost and query performance.
- RAD Security
Participated · Series A · Feb 2025
RAD Security offers an AI-driven platform that ingests and analyzes data from multiple sources and queries security tools to enable smart triage and drastically reduce mean time to resolution (MTTR). Its technology builds on a battle-tested Cloud Detection and Response (CDR) solution, using runtime security and fingerprinting to establish behavioral baselines and detect deviations indicating malicious activity or insider threats. The platform includes monitoring and detection for AI-related threats—such as shadow AI, data exfiltration, prompt injection attacks—and supports vulnerability management and GRC teams with agent-based querying. RAD plans to expand its agentic capabilities and enhance its AI-driven defense platform to secure enterprises' cloud and AI deployments as they grow and adapt. The company intends to use the Series A proceeds to accelerate that expansion and improve advanced AI-driven solutions. RAD Security is led by CEO Brooke Motta and is based in San Francisco, CA.
- Nearby Computing
Participated · Series A · Jul 2024
Nearby Computing builds an orchestration and automation platform, NearbyOne, that manages edge computing deployments including MEC environments and private 5G networks. The platform targets industrial companies and telco operators and supports use cases such as Connected Vehicle, massive IoT, retail, and defense and security. The company says its solution manages all levels of the network ecosystem through a single interface to maximize edge benefits. Nearby reports rapid market traction and plans to expand its market coverage and sales force to accelerate adoption. The firm intends to consolidate leadership across North America, Asia‑Pacific and Europe. Its strategy emphasizes empowering companies and service providers with advanced edge computing and software automation solutions. Nearby Computing, founded in 2018 as a spin-off of the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC-CNS) and the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), builds orchestration and automation software for networks with a focus on Edge Computing and 5G. The company develops tools to deploy and maintain virtual network functions and high-value applications such as computer vision, augmented reality and IoT, optimizing resource efficiency and guaranteeing service levels. Its products target telco operators, industry (Industry 4.0), utilities, smart-city deployments and connected-vehicle networks. By 2020 Nearby Computing had commercial activity in Spain, elsewhere in Europe, North America and the Middle East and maintains a broad partner network. The approximately €2M raised in the seed round will be used to reinforce growth by scaling global commercialization, consolidating projects, expanding R&D capacity and improving customer service. Investors will also collaborate on commercialization in their markets and integrate the startup into advanced innovation programs.
- Hushmesh
Participated · Equity · Aug 2023
Hushmesh develops the Mesh, a global information space that automates encryption key management and end‑to‑end cryptographic security for individuals and non‑person entities. The Mesh issues unlimited keys, encrypts data at the source, removes human insiders, and cryptographically links identifiers, aliases, keys, and encrypted data to prevent identity theft, data breaches, fakes, and fraud. It is built on a physically decentralized network of Confidential Computing machines and is underpinned by the Universal Name System (UNS) rather than DNS, enabling automated authenticity, confidentiality, and privacy by default. Hushmesh positions the Mesh as distinct from Web3 and blockchain by offering automated, attested cryptography and recovery mechanisms for lost access. The company says it operates as a global, neutral cyber security infostructure for business, government, and consumer use cases and is exhibiting and presenting its technology at industry events.