NS1 Raises $33M to Accelerate Penetration into Edge Computing, Service Delivery, and IoT

Ganesh The Awesome Senior Pre & Post-Sales Engineer at GlobalDots

4th October, 2019 1 Min read

NS1, a leader in next generation DNS and application traffic management solutions, announced it has raised a $33 million Series C venture round.

The round was led by Dell Technologies Capital, with participation from Cisco Investments and existing investors Deutsche Telekom Capital Partners, Entrée Capital, Flybridge Capital Partners, GGV Capital, Mango Capital, Salesforce Ventures, Sigma Prime Ventures, Telstra Ventures, and Two Sigma Ventures.

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NS1 solutions provide application delivery and traffic control that is critical for revenue, business operations, automation, and the best user experiences to the most highly trafficked internet and enterprise applications.

Over the past two years, NS1 has rapidly expanded its next generation domain name system (DNS) and application traffic management offerings.

Earlier this year, the company unveiled NS1 Enterprise DDI, the only DNS, DHCP, and IP Address Management (DDI) solution with advanced traffic management, rapid propagation, integration with popular application development and monitoring tools, and an API-first design built for DevOps environments.

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