Led · Series B · Apr 2021

Section is a Boulder, Colorado–based Edge as a Service (EaaS) provider founded in 2012 in Sydney, Australia by CEO Stewart McGrath. The company offers a platform that removes the burdens of edge infrastructure provisioning, workload orchestration, scaling, monitoring, and traffic routing so application engineers can focus on their core product. Over the past year Section released several technologies, including Adaptive Edge Engine, Node.js Edge Hosting, and Traffic Monitor, to optimize edge workload placement, run mission‑critical Node.js at the network edge, and visualize traffic flows. The business plans to use the new funding to continue expanding operations and widen its business reach. The article does not disclose operating metrics or revenue figures. Product development and edge delivery remain central to the company’s near‑term strategy. section.io is a content delivery network (CDN) platform that enables website engineers to control the delivery of their web applications. Led by CEO Stewart McGrath and based in Boulder, Colorado and Sydney, Australia, the platform makes applications CDN-aware so every code deploy aligns with CDN configuration. It provides real-time metrics and logging built on Graphite, Elasticsearch, Kibana and Logstash, giving teams consistent logs and metrics across Dev, Test and Prod environments. The company closed a $1.5M seed funding round and intends to use the funds to continue developing the platform and expand operations. The product targets agile teams building web applications that require tight integration between application code and CDN behavior. section.io provides developers a platform to set up the open-source Varnish HTTP acceleration proxy for web applications, enabling cloud-based website caching. The platform includes SSL support, metrics, logs, and alerting to support production deployments. It was founded by Stewart McGrath and Daniel Bartholomew, who previously worked at Graysonline and other firms. section.io released its first open beta in May 2015 and has attracted more than 200 developers from the USA, Asia, Europe and Australia. The company launched with funding from the Australian Government’s Commercialization Australia program; the amount of that funding was not disclosed.