Akamai Technologies has launched the Akamai One start-up programme designed to empower start-ups in Asia Pacific and Japan.
The programme is designed to empower start-ups to focus on growing their businesses without worrying about the complexity of delivering fast, reliable and secure online experiences for their users.
It makes available Akamai’s Web and Mobile Performance solutions to start-ups in sectors such as travel, e-commerce, high tech and digital media.
Independent start-ups and accelerators can leverage Akamai’s services and technologies for a year with no integration or recurring costs.
Akamai One empowers start-ups in APAC and Japan. (Image credit: Ridofranz/iStock)
The company said the expanding start-up landscape in Asia Pacific and Japan has captured US$9.4 billion in venture capital funding across a total of 436 investments in in the first quarter of 2015.
“This signalled a need for a secure, reliable and productive cloud environment to do business to compete and stand apart from the competition,” it added.
Sanjay Singh, senior vice president and general manager, Asia Pacific & Japan for Akamai Technologies elaborated: “Start-ups need to focus on innovating and bringing their product to market as quickly as possible in order to succeed and continue to secure funding to expand and grow. With Akamai’s solutions built into our globally-distributed platform, startups can scale their Internet operations rapidly without having to invest in infrastructure.”
Under the programme participating startups have access to one year’s worth of Akamai’s Web and Mobile Performance solutions, which are designed to:
- Reduce IT costs and extend web infrastructure by leveraging the Akamai Intelligent Platform.
- Deliver responsive user experiences with Akamai’s Front End Optimisations (FEO).
- Optimise for both cellular and Wi-Fi connections with Enhanced Mobile Protocol technology.
- Gain key audience insight in real time with Real User Monitoring (RUM).
Akamai has partnered with incubators such as BlueChilli in Australia, SparkLabs in Korea, and TLabs in India to help start-ups succeed by providing products and resources that allow the start-ups to focus on their core business goals.
