Yottaa is a web and mobile optimization services company based in

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. Its main product is a platform that helps with website conversions, as well as performance and security.

History

Yottaa was founded in 2009 in Boston by Coach Wei, a

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, and

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alumnus, and Robert Buffone who studied

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. Prior to Yottaa, Wei had founded and served as the chairman of Nexaweb. Apart from its office in Boston, Yottaa had opened an office in

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in what has been described as an anti-

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, due to having a rather big and global team from its inception. Coach Wei served as CEO from 2009 to late 2014 and continues as

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and Robert Buffone serve as the company's CTO respectively. Vick Viren Vaishnavi acts as the

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since late 2014. In a

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in 2010 Yottaa raised $4 million of venture funding from General Catalyst Partners, Stata Venture Partners and Cambridge West Ventures to build its acceleration platform. In 2012 Yottaa named Raymie Stata, a former CTO of

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, in its board of directors. In a series B round in 2012 the company raised an additional $9 million to expand its platform technology to include monitoring and security features. Following the round, Yottaa won MassTLC's award for Innovative Technology of the Year - Cloud. A further $16 million were raised in 2013, in a round led by

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, also attracting funding from previous investors to expand sales and marketing operations and attract enterprise customers. From an

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in December 2014, Yottaa received $10.45 million. In early 2015, Yottaa moved its offices from Boston to

. On May 12, 2022 Yottaa announced a significant growth investment from PSG to help accelerate their growth. Financial terms were not disclosed.

Services

Yottaa has developed a web and mobile optimization platform providing cloud services that improve website speed, and visibility on any device. The company's initial target group were mid-sized enterprises (SMEs), with Yottaa aiming to sell its platform as a

software as a service Software as a service (SaaS ) is a cloud computing service model where the provider offers use of application software to a client and manages all needed physical and software resources. SaaS is usually accessed via a web application. Unlike o ...

. Yottaa's platform combines an adaptive

content delivery network A content delivery network (CDN) or content distribution network is a geographically distributed network of proxy servers and their data centers. The goal is to provide high availability and performance ("speed") by distributing the service spat ...

, dynamic site acceleration,

web analytics Web analytics is the measurement, data collection, collection, analysis, and reporting of web Data (computing), data to understand and optimize web usage. Web analytics is not just a process for measuring web traffic but can be used as a tool for ...

, and

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. Yottaa deals with the problem of website speed as a software optimization problem, instead of dealing with it as a problem of bits' movement between different places, and does not require any code changes. Yottaa's platform, named Context Intelligence, identifies the user's location, browser, device, and interaction with web content to sort application content delivery, thus modifying web content to match the end user's browsing context. Context Intelligence comprises several components: AdaptiveCDN is the delivery component, AppSequencing is neutralizing ad-blocking software while ensuring that the websites speed is not reduced, InstantON is an accelerating component, ContextSAFE provides security to the platform, while ImpactAnalytics offers web analytics.

References

External links

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