Riverbed Technology (NASDAQ: RVBD) is the pioneer in wide area data services (WDS), a fast-growing product category that solves the problems of latency and bandwidth that plague a wide variety of applications over distributed networks. Riverbed’s Steelhead appliances provide the highest level of WAN performance at a lower cost, reducing WAN traffic by up to 95% and accelerating applications by up to 100 times. By providing optimizations that are orders of magnitude greater than what users experience today, Riverbed is changing the way people work – and enabling, for the first time, a truly distributed workforce. InfoWorld named Steelhead a “Product of the Year” for 2005 as the “Best WAN Accelerator.” Steelhead appliances are available worldwide directly from Riverbed and through global partners, including HP. Riverbed Technology, Inc. was founded in 2002 and is based in San Francisco.
Financials
| Date | Type | Amount | Investors | Valuation |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01/01/05 | Series C | 20M | We are looking for investors now, FlyGreatChina, Scale Venture Partners, Longworth Venture Partners, Egan-Managed Capital | Unknown |
People
David Wu (VP Engineering)
Marcus Chambers (Vice President)
Harold Irvine (CIO)
Stephen Smoot (VP Technical Operations)
Bertrand Yansouni (VP Sales)
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