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Company type | Private |
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Industry | Cloud computing |
Founded | 2009 |
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Aryaka is a company that provides Unified SASE as a Service including wide-area software-defined networking ( SD-WAN) connectivity, application delivery and network security. Aryaka is headquartered in Santa Clara, California with additional offices located in Hamburg, Germany, and Bengaluru, India.
Aryaka was founded in 2009 by Ajit Gupta, [1] Rajeev Bharadhwaj [2] and Ashwath Nagaraj. Gupta previously founded Speedera Networks, a content delivery network (CDN) acquired by Akamai Technologies in 2005 for stock valued at $500 million. [3] Bharadhwaj was previously at cloud service provider Ejasent Inc, acquired by Veritas in 2004 for $59 million. [4] Nagaraj was previously at Allegro Systems (acquired by Cisco Systems in 2001 for $185 million) [5] and founder of Assured Access Technologies (acquired by Alcatel in 1999 for $350 million). [6]
Aryaka announced its service in September 2010.
Aryaka raised $50 million from Goldman Sachs Growth Equity Fund. Previously it had raised a smaller $14M Series-E and had earlier received $45 million in Series D funding in a round led by from Third Point Ventures, adding new investor Deutsche Telekom Capital Partners (DTCP), and with participation from existing investors. In March 2016, it received $16 million in Series C funding from existing investors, Nexus Venture Partners. It previously received $10 million in Series C funding from Trinity Ventures, $25 million in series C funding led by Interwest Partners, [7] $15 million in series B funding and $14 million in series A funding from Trinity Ventures, Mohr Davidow Ventures, and Nexus Venture Partners. [8] Aryaka's foundational multi-segment WAN optimization patent was granted as a US patent in July 2013. [9]
Aryaka built a network to offer its managed wide-area network (WAN). It develops its own technology that includes WAN optimization, multi-cloud connectivity including AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, Oracle Cloud, and Alibaba Cloud, and delivers security as-a-service with partners that include Checkpoint, Palo Alto Networks, and Zscaler.