Akamai began with a pixel hidden on Disney's website. Twenty-seven years later, the network built to beat the 'World Wide Wait' is becoming a security perimeter and an AI cloud - without giving up the pipes that made it matter.
Azion wants to make the edge feel less like a map of servers and more like a programmable workbench. Its bet: the next important application will be built, secured and observed closer to the people using it.
A10 Networks built a durable business in the least glamorous place on the internet: the traffic choke point. Now the same machinery that kept telecom networks moving is being recast for APIs, AI models and agentic software.
ammune.ai (formerly L7 Defense) is a cybersecurity company that builds ammune™, a fully autonomous, AI-based platform for protecting APIs - and, increasingly, AI systems and data centers - from cyberattacks. Using unsupervised machine learning, ammune auto-discovers APIs and builds a tailored protection layer for each one inline from the first request, blocking dozens of attack types (bots, DDoS, business-logic abuse, injection) in real time without pre-training or rule-writing. The platform is platform-agnostic, running on-premises, in the cloud, in Kubernetes clusters, and offloaded onto DPUs such as NVIDIA BlueField-2, and it recently expanded toward offline, air-gapped protection for AI workloads.
應援科技 OenTech is a Taipei-based fintech that runs a one-stop integrated payment cloud platform combining third-party payment processing with a CRM-style supporter management system. Tailored for nonprofits, creators, political campaigns, temples and merchants, it lets organizations accept donations, sell tickets and merchandise, manage memberships and issue receipts on a single, security-certified stack. Certified to PCI-DSS Level 1, ISO 27001 and ISO 27701, Oen positions itself as one of Taiwan's most secure payment platforms and now serves more than 1,000 organizations.