Aklivity
AI Agents
Overview
Zilla Gateway gives AI agents governed access to APIs, services, and real-time data over MCP. Secure Kafka connectivity for apps, devices, and partners.
Funding and backers
Total raised
$4.1M
1 round on record
Latest round
$4.1M
Seed · May 2022 · 4 yr ago
Backers
1
Pear VC
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Long since its last round
53 months since the last round · not hiring
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May 25, 2022
Raised a round Seed $4.1M · led by 468 Capital · YahooFinance
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Funding rounds
| Round | Date | Amount | Investors | Source |
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| Seed | May 2022 | $4.1M | 468 Capital lead | YahooFinance |
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Financials
Total raised
$4.1M
Latest round
Seed
Funding rounds
1
Funding rounds
| Round | Announced | Amount | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Seed | 2022 | $4.1M | Details |
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News
Why AI Pipeline Needs Kafka & How Zilla Makes Kafka AI-Ready Aklivity Blog
Kafka gives AI pipelines async decoupling, replay, and backpressure; Zilla adds JWT identity, schemas, access filtering, and SSE.
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Rethinking Kafka Migration in the Age of Data Products Aklivity Blog
Kafka vendor migration has long been treated as an unavoidable disruption.Whether driven by cost, performance, cloud strategy, or vendor risk, migrations typically require months of planning, coordinated client upgrades, and operational risk across dozens
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Proxy Benefits With Near-Zero Latency Tax: Aklivity Zilla Benchmark Series (Part 1) Aklivity Blog
With Aklivity Zilla, we challenge the paradigm that proxies always add latency.
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Zilla Hails a Taxi Aklivity Blog
IoT telemetry at scale? MQTT, Zilla, and Kafka can make it happen.
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Modern Eventing with CQRS, Redpanda and Zilla Aklivity Blog
Learn about the event-driven nature of CQRS, common challenges while implementing it, and how ZIlla solves them with Redpanda.
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Streaming APIs and Protocols: SSE, WebSocket, MQTT, AMQP, gRPC Aklivity Blog
Let's take a look at popular streaming APIs and protocols and describe their use-cases, strengths, and shortcomings.
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Introducing Zilla Studio Aklivity Blog
Create and visualize your Zilla configuration through a dedicated GUI. Event-driven API design has never been this easy!
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Bring your own REST APIs for Apache Kafka Aklivity Blog
Zilla enables application-specific REST APIs. See how it's not just another Kafka-REST proxy.
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Aklivity Lands $4.1M Seed Funding led by 468 Capital for Universal Streaming API Layer
Funding will accelerate the development of Zilla, an event-driven API gateway for streaming architecturesPALO ALTO, Calif., May 25, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Aklivity, the company pioneering streaming API management, today announced an oversubscribed $4.1M
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Aklivity Lands $4.1M Seed Funding led by 468 Capital for Universal Streaming API Layer
Funding will accelerate the development of Zilla, an event-driven API gateway for streaming architecturesPALO ALTO, Calif., May 25, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Aklivity, the company pioneering streaming
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