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Akamai

Akamai was founded in 1998 in Cambridge, USA by Daniel Lewin and Tom Leighton. It is a Developer Tools company.

Content delivery network and cloud services provider.

Public Founded 1998 Cambridge USA Developer Tools
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Akamai founders & co-founders

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Daniel Lewin
Co-founder
 T
Tom Leighton
Co-founder & CEO

Where its founders came from

1

The companies and labs that produced Akamai’s founders.

MIT

What happened to Akamai’s founders and alumni

2 companies

People who worked at or founded Akamai and went on to start their own companies.

G 2 founded
Snyk 2015 Tessl

Acquisitions

1
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Red Swoosh
Software & IT · USA
AcquiredFounded 2001

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