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Palo Alto CA API security platform; acquired by Akamai 2024; discovery, posture management, and runtime protection for enterprise APIs.
Noname Security is an API security company founded in 2020 and headquartered in Palo Alto, California. The company built one of the first dedicated API security platforms to address the growing threat surface created by organizations' expanding API ecosystems. Noname's platform provides three core capabilities: API discovery and inventory to find all known and unknown APIs including shadow APIs; API security posture management to detect misconfigurations, data exposures, and compliance violations; and API runtime protection to detect and block attacks in real time. These capabilities were delivered as an out-of-band platform that analyzes API traffic without sitting inline.\n\nNoname raised approximately $220 million in funding before being acquired by Akamai Technologies in 2024. The acquisition was valued at approximately $450 million and was driven by Akamai's desire to strengthen its API security offerings within its existing CDN and security platform. Noname's technology was integrated into Akamai's API security product line, extending its reach to Akamai's large enterprise customer base. Prior to acquisition, Noname served financial services, healthcare, retail, and government organizations managing large API portfolios across hybrid and multi-cloud environments.\n\nThe Noname platform was designed to work without requiring changes to existing API gateway infrastructure, making it fast to deploy in complex enterprise environments. It integrated with popular API gateways and service meshes from AWS, Azure, Kong, Apigee, Mulesoft, and F5. Its behavioral detection engine was able to identify business logic abuse, authentication bypass, and data exposure patterns that traditional WAFs and gateways miss. The acquisition by Akamai brought its capabilities to one of the world's largest edge platforms.
Indoor vertical farming company using AI-optimized growing systems. San Francisco, CA. Raised $940M+ including $400M from SoftBank. Partners with Walmart for US farms.
Plenty is a San Francisco-based indoor vertical farming company that uses AI, machine learning, and robotics to grow leafy greens and other produce in controlled indoor environments. The company has raised over $940 million from investors including SoftBank Vision Fund, which invested $200 million in 2017, and has positioned itself as the technology leader in data-driven indoor agriculture.\n\nPlenty's farms use precisely controlled light, temperature, humidity, and nutrient conditions to grow crops that are free from pesticides, use 99% less land, and consume significantly less water than conventional field agriculture. The company's AI systems continuously optimize growing conditions based on sensor data, learning to improve yields and quality across crops and growing cycles.\n\nIn 2022, Plenty announced a landmark partnership with Walmart to supply leafy greens from a new large-scale facility in Compton, California. This partnership provided both a major commercial anchor and significant additional funding from Walmart, validating Plenty's technology and business model at scale. The company also operates a dedicated strawberry R&D partnership with Driscoll's, the world's largest berry company, demonstrating the platform's potential beyond leafy greens.
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