Kentik
kentik.com
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Enterprise Networks
Observability & APM
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Funding and backers
Total raised
$79.3M
2 rounds on record
Latest round
$56.3M
Venture round · Sep 2021 · 5 yr ago
Team
51-200
employees, estimated range
Hiring now
5
open roles
Backers
3
DCVC, Glynn Capital
The money's age
Long since its last round
61 months since the last round · hiring slowed
Momentum
15/100
in the news
Last sign of life
this month
a posting or a news item
The story so fareach stage dated by its source: the company's releases, the press, registers, filings
Jul 8
Acquired Infoblox acquires Kentik, adding network observability to its DNS and DDI platform · Network World
Jan 22
On the Hacker News front page From stealth blackout to whitelisting: Inside the Iranian shutdown · 163 points
Jun 25, 2025
Launched Kentik Launches 'Cause Analysis' to Help Every Engineer Understand Their Networks with AI · International Business Times
Jan 15, 2025
New executive Kentik Appoints Jason McKerr as SVP of Engineering to Lead Innovation in Network Observability · morningstar.com
Nov 7, 2024
Recognition Kentik Recognized as a Value Leader in 2024 EMA Radar(TM) Report for Network Operations Observability · marketwatch.com
Aug 19, 2023
On the Hacker News front page Iraq Blocks Telegram, Leaks Blackhole BGP Routes · 220 points
Oct 26, 2021
Board appointment Alan Cohen, Director · SEC Form D
Sep 14, 2021
Raised a round Venture round $56.3M · SEC Form D
Sep 10, 2021
On the Hacker News front page Did AS8003 just disappear? · 153 points
May 6, 2020
Partnership Kentik and Cloudflare Partner to Mitigate Advanced DDoS Attacks · Nasdaq
Aug 4, 2016
Raised a round Series B $23M · TechCrunch
Jun 28, 2016
Launched Kentik Introduces Post-Hadoop Network Traffic Analytics · PRNewswire
2014
Founded
Tractionpublic signals, read monthly
Web presence
top 0.01%
of 133.2M domains by links, Common Crawl
Hacker News stories
115
best: 220 points
Funding rounds
| Round | Date | Amount | Investors | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Venture round | Sep 2021 | $56.3M | — | SEC Form D |
| Series B | Aug 2016 | $23M | — | TechCrunch |
Registers and programsofficial lists and records that name the company
| Legal entity | KENTIK TECHNOLOGIES, INC. | SEC Form D |
Founders and leadersfrom filings, registers and the company's site
Avraham FreedmanExecutive Officer, DirectorSEC Form D
Alfred YuExecutive OfficerSEC Form D
Justin BiegelExecutive Officer, DirectorSEC Form D
Backed byfrom the funds' portfolios and accelerator catalogs
DCVC 
Glynn Capital 
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Overview
Headquartered in San Francisco, California, Kentik is a network observability, intelligence, and analytics software company. The company provides a cloud-native SaaS platform that unifies real-time network flow data, routing telemetry, synthetic performance metrics, and infrastructure security analytics across cloud, enterprise, data center, and service provider environments.
News
Latest BGP Hijack Targets Hosting Software Vendor
This post analyzes the technical details of the BGP hijack against Softaculous Ltd, the company behind the Softaculous auto-installer and the Virtualizor VM management platform. The hijack enabled an attacker to fraudulently obtain a TLS certificate and u
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Infoblox Completes Kentik Acquisition to Bring Together Authoritative DNS, Asset Visibility and Real-Time Network Intelligence
SANTA CLARA, Calif., Aug. 06, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Infoblox, the leading platform for preemptive security and critical network services, tod...
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China Rolls out the ROAs
Long a laggard in RPKI adoption, China has dramatically increased its ROA coverage from 4% to 81% since April, signaling a major commitment to securing the internet's routing system. This post explores the dramatic shift marking a significant milestone in
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Infoblox collects Kentik for network observability out of the box
Acquisition aims to amp agentic operations through networking observations
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Kentik Is Joining Infoblox
Kentik is excited to announce that we've entered into a definitive agreement to be acquired by Infoblox, marking the next chapter in our mission to revolutionize how networks are run. Read on for what this means for our customers, partners, and team.
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What the World Cup Looks Like in Internet Traffic
The World Cup may be the most-watched event in media history - so what does it look like from inside the network? We dug into ISP traffic data to reveal how Fox Sports peaks during US games, why second halves usually win, and how traffic flows shift for e
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Syrian Subsea Cable Link Downed in Latest Act of Telecom Sabotage
Syria's internet recently faced a significant disruption after the Aletar fiber cable was sabotaged on land, a move consistent with a broader pattern of infrastructure attacks targeting the country since the 2024 change in government. This post examines t
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When Local Blocks Go Global: The India-Telegram BGP Incident
Yesterday's leak of a BGP hijack intended to block Telegram in India is the latest routing mishap best described as intentional, but also accidental - a pattern dating back to Pakistan Telecom's infamous hijack of YouTube in 2008, in which a domestic bloc
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Shifting Streams and AI Surges: What Our Data Reveals About the OTT Landscape
OTT data from early 2026 shows streaming hierarchies holding steady while AI platforms reshuffled rapidly. Claude has substantially increased traffic since January, overtaking Gemini, and is on pace to challenge ChatGPT by fall. Doug Madory digs into the
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Your AI Strategy Has a Blind Spot: The Network
Enterprises are pouring billions into GPUs and AI compute, but most are overlooking the infrastructure that connects it all. Justin Ryburn, field CTO at Kentik, makes the case that the network is the most underestimated variable in whether AI initiatives
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Tech stack
Technologies named in job postings at Kentik over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
34
Postings analysed
10
Stack modernity
72/100
Languages
Python50%
Bash40%
SQL40%
Perl20%
Frameworks & libraries
React.js10%
Databases
MySQL10%
PostgreSQL10%
Redis10%
Cloud & platforms
Akamai100%
Linux60%
AWS40%
Azure40%
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34 technologies · by team · pay by technology · changes · similar stacks
Salary insights
Compensation ranges based on this company's open jobs
Median
$183k
Typical range
$120k – $245k
Open positions
2
2
Jobs
Senior
50%
Staff
50%
| Level | Jobs | Median | Typical range |
|---|---|---|---|
| Senior | 1 | $120k | $120k |
| Staff | 1 | $245k | $245k |
Highest paying role
Sr Staff Distributed Systems Engineer, Platform - Storage
$245k
Normalized to USD per year
People
Avraham Freedman
Executive Officer, Director
Alfred Yu
Executive Officer
Justin Biegel
Executive Officer, Director
Howard Morgan
Director
Ian Pye
Director
Robert Schwartz
Director
Vivek Mehra
Director
David Ulevitch
Director
Bill Trenchard
Director
Alan Cohen
Director
Jamie Barnett
Director
David Hornik
Director
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Growth
Hiring Momentum
53/100
Stable
Open positions
5
0 opened / 5 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
73 days
faster than 18% of the market
ATS activity
Every ~4 hours
Today
Hiring Dynamics
+100%
Hiring Focus
The percentage next to each role is its share of the company's job openings over the last 90 days; the arrow shows the shift versus the previous period.
Solutions
60% ▼
Backend
20% ▼
Customer Success
20% ▼
Activity Timeline
Added Rest API to stack
Sep 2026
Added TCP/IP to stack
Sep 2026
Added Linux to stack
Sep 2026
Added DNS to stack
Sep 2026
Added BGP to stack
Sep 2026
Added Looker to stack
Sep 2026
Added LinkedIn to stack
Sep 2026
Added Dropbox to stack
Sep 2026
Added GitHub to stack
Aug 2026
Offices
Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
1
Hiring now
0
Countries
1
San Francisco
United States
HQ
Mailing address
50-200 est. staff
548 Market St PMB 78595, San Francisco, CA 94104-5401
Jobs
≈ $122k – $227k per year (Estimated) • Remote (United States) • 5+ years exp • United States
Synthetic Data
DevOps
Akamai
Linux
TCP/IP
DNS
BGP
Management
Dropbox
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$200k – $245k per year • Remote (United States) • United States
Python
JavaScript
Rust
Node JS
MySQL
PostgreSQL
Redis
Apache Kafka
AI/ML
Synthetic Data
Frontend
React.js
DevOps
Rest API
gRPC
HAProxy
CI/CD
Jenkins
Platform Engineering
Akamai
GitHub
Management
Jira
Dropbox
Apply
≈ $57k – $113k per year (Estimated) • Remote (Japan) • 5+ years exp • Japan
Python
SQL
Bash
Perl
Synthetic Data
DevOps
Ansible
GCP
Prometheus
Azure
AWS
Grafana
Akamai
Linux
TCP/IP
DNS
BGP
Management
Dropbox
Apply
≈ $89k – $205k per year (Estimated) • Remote (EMEA) • 5+ years exp
Python
SQL
Bash
Perl
Synthetic Data
DevOps
Ansible
GCP
Prometheus
Azure
AWS
Grafana
Akamai
Linux
TCP/IP
DNS
BGP
Management
Dropbox
Apply