Akamai Technologies - M&A Summary and Business Overview

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Akamai Technologies M&A Summary

Akamai Technologies has acquired 35 companies, including 13 in the last 5 years. A total of 7 acquisitions came from private equity firms. It has also divested 2 assets.

Akamai Technologies’ largest acquisition to date was in 2022, when it acquired Linode for $900M. Akamai Technologies has acquired in 10 different US states, and 7 countries. The Company’s most targeted sectors include information technology (55%) and internet software and services (31%).

Akamai Technologies Business Overview

Where is Akamai Technologies headquartered?

Akamai Technologies is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

What is Akamai Technologies’ revenue?

Akamai Technologies disclosed revenue of 3,198M USD for 2020 and 2,894M USD for 2019.

How many employees does Akamai Technologies have?

Akamai Technologies has 8,780 employees.

What sector is Akamai Technologies in?

Akamai Technologies is an information technology company.

When was Akamai Technologies founded?

Akamai Technologies was founded in 1998.

M&A Summary

  • M&A Total Activity35
    • M&A Buy Activity33
    • M&A Sell Activity2
  • Total Sectors Invested 5
  • Total Countries Invested 7
  • M&A Buy/Sell Connections 11
  • M&A Advisors 4

Akamai Technologies

Akamai Technologies, Inc.

145 Broadway,
Cambridge, Massachusetts 02142
United States,
(617) 444-3000
www.akamai.com

Akamai Technologies is a provider of cloud services for delivering, optimizing and securing online content and business applications. Akamai was formed in 1998 and is based in Cambridge, Massachusetts.


M&A Summary

Buy vs Sell

Year ≤ '19 '20 '21 '22 '23 '24 T
Buy (1.8/yr) # 24 2 2 1 4 - 33
vol $1.2B $600M $900M $2.7B
Sell (0.0/yr) # 2 - - - - - 2
  35

Most Recent M&A

Company Date Value Type
Lumen - Select Content Delivery Customer Contracts 2023-10-10 - Divestiture
Monroe, Louisiana
StackPath - Select Enterprise Customer Contracts 2023-08-24 - Divestiture
Dallas, Texas
Neosec, Inc. 2023-04-19 - Add-on Acquisition
Milpitas, California · www.neosec.com
StorageOS, Inc. 2023-03-02 - Add-on Acquisition
London, United Kingdom · www.ondat.io
Linode LLC 2022-02-15 900M USD Add-on Acquisition
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania · www.linode.com
GuardiCore 2021-09-29 600M USD Add-on Acquisition
Tel Aviv, Israel · www.guardicore.com
Inverse, Inc. 2021-02-01 - Add-on Acquisition
Montreal, Quebec · www.inverse.ca
Asavie 2020-10-27 - Add-on Acquisition
Dublin, Ireland · www.asavie.com
Instart Logic, Inc. 2020-02-27 - Add-on Acquisition
Palo Alto, California · www.instart.com
ChameleonX Technologies 2019-10-09 - Add-on Acquisition
Tel Aviv, Israel · www.chameleonx.com
View All >>

M&A by Sector

Sector Buy # Value Sell # Value
Information Technology 18 (55%) 1.9B (69%) - -
Internet Software and Services 10 (30%) 472M (17%) - -
Software 3 (9%) 268M (10%) - -
Media - - 2 (100%) -
Communications 1 (3%) - - -
Information Services 1 (3%) 95M (3%) - -
Total 33 $2.7B 2 -

By Geo

State/Country Buy Value Sell Value
United States 24 2.1B 2 -
  California 12 759M - -
  Massachusetts 2 - 2 -
  Florida 2 370M - -
  New York 2 95M - -
  Louisiana 1 - - -
  Colorado 1 - - -
  Texas 1 - - -
  Pennsylvania 1 900M - -
  Oregon 1 - - -
  New Jersey 1 - - -
Canada 2 - - -
  Quebec 1 - - -
  Ontario 1 - - -
Israel 2 600M - -
United Kingdom 2 - - -
Brazil 1 - - -
Denmark 1 - - -
Ireland 1 - - -
Domestic 24 (73%) 2.1B (78%) 2 (100%) -
Cross-border 9 (27%) 600M (22%) - -
Total 33 $2.7B 2 -

Top M&A Advisors

Financial Deals
PJT Partners, Inc.
 1
Morgan Stanley
 1
LUMA Partners LLC
 1
Legal Deals
Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP
 1

Deal Values

buy # Total
$100M to $1B 7 $2.6B
< $100M 2 $114M
TOTAL $2.7B
Largest Linode LLC
$900M (2022-02-15)

M&A Connections

Deals
Acquired from
Investor(s)
15%
5 (15%)
Strategic(s)
6%
2 (6%)
Divested to
Strategic(s)
100%
2 (100%)

Company Summary

SECTOR

Information Technology

Revenue

3,198   11% 2020
2,894   7% 2019
2,714   9% 2018
2,503   7% 2017
2,340   7% 2016
2,197   12% 2015
1,964   25% 2014
1,578   15% 2013
1,373   2012
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Employees

8,780

Established

1998

Public

NASDAQ: AKAM

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