# IO River

> IO River sells a vendor-neutral control layer for content delivery and edge services. Its platform unifies configuration, monitoring, traffic steering and security across multiple CDN providers so enterprise teams can improve resilience, compare performance and manage delivery costs.

- **Founded:** 2022
- **Headquarters:** Boston, United States
- **Founders:** Edward Tsinovoi (Co-founder and CEO), Michael Hakimi (Co-founder and CTO)
- **Products:** Virtual Edge, Multi-CDN as a Service, Virtual CDN (VCDN), Unified edge security, CDN migration
- **Notable:** Reported more than 200PB of monthly traffic in January 2026., Minute Media case study reports 30% lower CDN costs and 50% better worldwide time to first byte., Minute.ly case study estimates three months of DevOps effort saved during its StackPath migration.

## Products & services

- **Virtual Edge** — Vendor-neutral orchestration of CDN configuration, routing, observability and edge services. Publicly launched in 2024.
- **Multi-CDN as a Service** — Manage existing CDN accounts through one interface, with performance- and cost-based steering, active-active delivery and automated failover.
- **Virtual CDN (VCDN)** — A managed delivery offering combining multiple underlying networks into one service.
- **Unified edge security** — Consistent web application firewall and security policies across supported edge providers, including Check Point WAF integration.
- **CDN migration** — Compare providers, replicate configuration and shift production traffic gradually while monitoring results.
- **Developer integrations** — REST API, Terraform provider, Go client, Prometheus exporter and OpenTelemetry forwarder.

## Achievements

- Reported more than 200PB of monthly traffic in January 2026.
- Minute Media case study reports 30% lower CDN costs and 50% better worldwide time to first byte.
- Minute.ly case study estimates three months of DevOps effort saved during its StackPath migration.
- Shuffll case study reports a 79% improvement in worldwide median time to last byte.
- RGE Media Group case study reports a 30% delivery-cost reduction.

## Latest updates

- **2026-01** — Announced a $20 million Series A led by Venture Guides and New Era to expand multi-edge adoption and edge decoupling.
- **2026-03** — IBM published a case study describing IO River’s use of NS1 Connect for multi-DNS resilience and granular traffic steering.
- **2026-08** — Public GitHub activity shows maintenance of the Go API client and Terraform provider.

## Links

- Website: https://www.ioriver.io/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/io-river
- Twitter/X: https://x.com/io_river_
- GitHub: https://github.com/ioriver
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@IORiver

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Last updated: 2026-10-04