Akamai, also known as Akamai Technologies, is a publicly owned company headquartered in the US. Founded in 1998, with an estimated 9,160 employees, it reported $4.2B in revenue as of 2025. The company specializes in enterprise cloud solutions, functioning as a content delivery network (CDN), cybersecurity, and cloud service provider, offering web and internet security services.

2025 Revenue

Founded

1998

Headcount

9,151

Headquarters

US

Primary Segment

Enterprise cloud

Ownership

Publicly Owned

Deployments

49

News Summary:

Akamai published research on April 23, 2026, discussing "The Industrialization of Exploitation," which highlighted how large language models (LLMs) can uncover deep software vulnerabilities, underscoring the necessity for defensive AI to surpass offensive AI. On the same day, analysts also issued an earnings preview for Akamai, a Cambridge, Massachusetts-based provider of security, delivery, and cloud computing solutions valued at a $14.1 billion market cap. Earlier on April 23, Digital Convergence Technologies (DCT) joined the Akamai Partner Connect Program, a move designed to accelerate cloud modernization by offering mid-market and enterprise clients a streamlined, cost-effective path for migrating workloads to Akamai through a specialized refactoring practice. Previously, on April 22, 2026, Akamai researchers revealed that an incomplete patch for CVE-2026-21510, an APT28 exploit, inadvertently created a new zero-click authentication coercion vulnerability, CVE-2026-32202, despite Microsoft's efforts to prevent initial remote code execution.

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Akamai offers 19 products in the telecoms tech, media tech, connectivity and cloud and ad tech and services industries. Akamai's product portfolio comprises of video data and analytics, connectivity and distribution services, enterprise cloud, marketer and agency technology, enterprise security, enterprise and telecoms software, ad measurement and verification, telecoms network infrastructure and video processing and playout.
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Akamai's revenues were $4.2B in 2025. Caretta Research has split Akamai's revenue into 13 different product categories, the largest of which is media Content delivery networks (CDNs), which represents 28% of Akamai's revenue.
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Akamai's customers primarily consist of computer Games and retail companies. Examples of Akamai's customers include Ubisoft, NBCUniversal and Riachuelo. Akamai has commercial and technical partners like Bitmovin, Mirada and Deloitte. Examples of Akamai's suppliers include Hydrolix, Nvidia and Telestream.

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