3 headquarters palo alto california united states key people manav mital ceo 4 raghu venkat cpo 4 hariharan kolam cto 4 rafael torres cfo 4 industry internet website www.instartlogic.com instart logic is a cloud services company primarily focused on web site and application speed and performance . the company is headquartered in palo alto california . 5 instart logic is a direct competitor to akamai technologies . 6 7 contents 1 history 1.1 acquisitions 1.2 funding 2 technology 3 references 4 external links history edit the company was founded out of frustration with the slow speed of downloading and updating video games . 8 it can be deployed in as few as fifteen minutes . 9 in the fall of 2014 the company started a 100 million contract buyout program for akamai customers . 10 11 12 acquisitions edit in february 2016 instart logic acquired kwicr 13 14 15 a leader in mobile application acceleration for apple and android platforms for an undisclosed amount to strengthen its mobile application delivery and analytics capabilities . funding edit instart logic has received 140 million usd in 5 rounds of funding from 10 investors series a in february 2012 instart logic received 9 million usd as first round of funding series b in april 2013 instart logic received 17 million usd series c in may 2014 instart logic received 26 million usd venture in may 2015 instart logic closed a 43 million usd 16 expansion funding led by new investors four rivers group and hermes growth partners in addition to existing investors including andreessen horowitz kleiner perkins caufield & byers and tenaya capital series d in january 2016 instart logic received 45 million usd 17 18 funding from geodesic capital telstra ventures 19 20 stanford startx fund harris barton asset management and participation from existing investors some of their other investors are greylock partners sutter hill ventures 16 and wing venture capital . notable clients include tui group washington post one kings lane and dollar shave club . 21 22 instart logic has been ranked by business insider as no. 1 among the 17 best startups to work for in america 23 technology edit the technology built by instart logic claims to resolve emerging application delivery challenges in mobile multi device and multi cloud environments . with a foundation of a traditional content delivery network the company has built a cloud client 24 25 26 platform that helps deliver websites faster and more securely . the instart logic service is in between an origin server and end client browsers . it is deployed like a traditional cdn through dns changes . the technology of the service analyzes web pages from an origin server and prioritizes which parts of the page html javascript images are broken into small fragments and sent to end devices . the company claims this software defined application delivery approach improves web page load times . references edit kia kokalitcheva 2014 05 13 . mobile web apps are slow . instart logic now has 26m to try and change that . venturebeat . retrieved 2015 03 29 . tenaya capital portfolio instart logic . retrieved 2015 03 29 . instart logic inc. private company information businessweek . bloomberg business . retrieved 2015 03 29 . a b c d leadership instart logic . retrieved 2015 03 29 . contact us . instart logic . retrieved 2015 03 29 . stephen shankland 2013 06 13 . instart logic hopes to profit from speeding up web sites . cnet . retrieved 2015 03 29 . tim greene 2013 06 14 . startup uses new technology to out akamai akamai . network world . retrieved 2015 03 29 . ashlee vance 2013 08 22 . instart logic wants a smoking fast internet . bloomberg news . retrieved 2015 03 29 . leena rao 2013 04 16 . instart logic raises 17m from andreessen horowitz and greylock to improve web and mobile app performance . retrieved 2015 03 29 . instart logic continues momentum with software defined application delivery approach si team siliconindia magazine . retrieved 2015 03 29 . 100 million reasons to switch from akamai to instart logic . retrieved 2015 03 29 . ernie regalado 2014 09 16 . instart logic offers to buy out akamai s contracts . retrieved 2015 03 29 . instart logic acquires kwicr the mobile app accelerator . tnooz . retrieved 23 february 2016 . instart logic buys massachusetts startup to help speed clients mobile apps . business journal . retrieved 23 february 2016 . instart logic turbocharges mobile app performance with kwicr acquisition . retrieved 23 february 2016 . a b instart logic picks up 43m funding to speed up the web . forbes . archived from the original on may 25 2015 . retrieved 2015 05 25 . instart logic builds on 2015 momentum with 45 million in funding . retrieved 2016 01 27 . instart logic raises 45m series d round for its application delivery platform . retrieved 2016 01 27 . telstra has bought into us app delivery service instart logic . retrieved 2016 01 27 . telstra invests in us application delivery services provider . retrieved 2016 01 21 . washington post case study . instart logic . retrieved 2015 03 29 . company overview . instart logic . retrieved 2015 03 29 . the 17 best startups to work for in america . retrieved 2015 08 21 . cloud client computing where cloud meets mobile and the nexus of forces portfolio gartner webinars . retrieved 2015 05 08 . gartner identifies the top 10 strategic technology trends for 2015 . retrieved 2015 05 08 . cloud client computing portfolio andreessen horowitz . retrieved 2015 05 08 . external links edit official website retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title instart logic & oldid 739524238 categories content delivery networkcloud computing providersinternet companies of the united statescompanies based in palo alto california2010 establishments in californiatechnology companies established in 2010 navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more 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