M&A Deal Summary

Fastly Acquires Signal Sciences

On August 27, 2020, Fastly acquired information technology company Signal Sciences for 775M USD

Acquisition Highlights
  • This is Fastly’s 1st transaction in the Information Technology sector.
  • This is Fastly’s largest (disclosed) transaction.
  • This is Fastly’s 1st transaction in the United States.
  • This is Fastly’s 1st transaction in California.

M&A Deal Summary
Date 2020-08-27
Target Signal Sciences
Sector Information Technology
Buyer(s) Fastly
Deal Type Add-on Acquisition
Deal Value 775M USD
Advisor(s) Qatalyst Partners LP (Financial)
Goodwin Procter (Legal)

Target

Signal Sciences

Culver City, California, United States
Signal Sciences is a web application security company. With its next-gen WAF and RASP solution, Signal Sciences protects more than 40,000 applications and over a trillion production requests per month. Signal Sciences’ patented architecture provides organizations working in a modern development environment with comprehensive and scalable threat protection and security visibility.

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Buyer

Fastly

San Francisco, California, United States
Category Company
Founded 2011
Sector Information Technology
Employees1,207
Revenue 506M USD (2023)
DESCRIPTION

Fastly is a content delivery company. Fastly’s edge cloud platform enables customers to create great digital experiences quickly, securely, and reliably by processing, serving, and securing our customers’ applications as close to their end-users as possible at the edge of the internet. The platform is designed to take advantage of the modern internet, to be programmable, and to support agile software development. Fastly was founded in 2011 and is based in San Francisco, California.

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Sector (Information Technology) 1 of 1
Type (Add-on Acquisition) 1 of 3
State (California) 1 of 2
Country (United States) 1 of 3
Year (2020) 1 of 1
Size (of disclosed) 1 of 1
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