Aryaka
| Company type | Private |
|---|---|
| Industry | Networking, Cloud computing |
| Founded | 2009 |
| Founder | Ajit Gupta, Rajeev Bharadhwaj, Ashwath Nagaraj |
| Headquarters | Santa Clara , United States |
Area served | Global |
| Products | Unified SASE as a Service, SD-WAN, network security, application delivery solutions |
Aryaka delivers Unified SASE as a Service, encompassing wide-area software-defined networking (SD-WAN), network security, and application delivery solutions. The company is headquartered in Santa Clara, California and maintains additional offices in Hamburg, Germany, and Bengaluru, India.
History
Established in 2009 by Ajit Gupta, Rajeev Bharadhwaj, and Ashwath Nagaraj, Aryaka’s founders brought significant expertise from the technology sector. Gupta was the founder of Speedera Networks, which was acquired by Akamai Technologies in 2005 for $500 million. Bharadhwaj previously worked at cloud provider Ejasent Inc, acquired by Veritas for $59 million. Nagaraj held positions at Allegro Systems—purchased by Cisco for $185 million—and founded Assured Access Technologies, later acquired by Alcatel for $350 million.
Aryaka introduced its service offering in September 2010.
The company secured $50 million in funding from Goldman Sachs Growth Equity Fund, following earlier investments including a $14 million Series E round, a $45 million Series D led by Third Point Ventures with involvement from Deutsche Telekom Capital Partners, and multiple Series C financings exceeding $50 million from Nexus Venture Partners, Trinity Ventures, and Interwest Partners. Previous funding rounds comprised a $15 million Series B and a $14 million Series A backed by Trinity Ventures, Mohr Davidow Ventures, and Nexus Venture Partners. In July 2013, Aryaka was awarded a foundational patent related to multi-segment WAN optimization.
Aryaka developed a managed wide-area network that utilizes proprietary technology to optimize WAN performance and enable multi-cloud connectivity across platforms such as AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, Oracle Cloud, and Alibaba Cloud. The company also provides security-as-a-service through collaborations with Checkpoint, Palo Alto Networks, and Zscaler.