About Edgegap
An Origin Story for the Ages
As someone with 20 years of telecom experience, Mathieu Duperré had seen countless industry trends come and go – but edge computing felt different. He saw its bold approach to latency reduction as the next frontier in gaming tech, so he pitched his employer to explore it further.
They humored him initially, but within a few months, the initiative was canned. The company didn’t feel that the gaming market was large or promising enough. Fortunately, their skepticism didn’t deter Mathieu. He knew he had lightning in a bottle, so there was only one thing left to do: quit his long-standing corporate gig to follow his passion.
The first order of business was to research industry conferences. One event in Berlin looked promising, but he was going completely out-of-pocket with zero funding and no product. It was both pricey and risky, with a ton of downside and a shred of potential upside. To earn a free pass, Mathieu jumped on the opportunity to join the event’s hackathon.
Within two weeks, he was onstage in front of the biggest names in the game, presenting the prototype he had pulled out of thin air.
The result? First prize.
Mathieu was immediately swarmed by execs asking to test his product, which didn’t exist yet. Upon touching down in Montreal, he got straight to work renting a small office, hiring 2 engineers for a prototype and started plugging away.
They humored him initially, but within a few months, the initiative was canned. The company didn’t feel that the gaming market was large or promising enough. Fortunately, their skepticism didn’t deter Mathieu. He knew he had lightning in a bottle, so there was only one thing left to do: quit his long-standing corporate gig to follow his passion.
The first order of business was to research industry conferences. One event in Berlin looked promising, but he was going completely out-of-pocket with zero funding and no product. It was both pricey and risky, with a ton of downside and a shred of potential upside. To earn a free pass, Mathieu jumped on the opportunity to join the event’s hackathon.
Within two weeks, he was onstage in front of the biggest names in the game, presenting the prototype he had pulled out of thin air.
The result? First prize.
Mathieu was immediately swarmed by execs asking to test his product, which didn’t exist yet. Upon touching down in Montreal, he got straight to work renting a small office, hiring 2 engineers for a prototype and started plugging away.
One year later, they had landed a seed round.
Now, more than 5 years later, the team is composed of various departments and colleagues, building the future of edge computing infrastructure!
Company Milestones
Founding
November 2018
Powering On
Founder Mathieu pitches his vision at the Berlin Edge Hackathon and wins first prize. Following a tidal wave of interest from attendees, Edgegap is born.
Pre-Seed Round
November 2018
$125k Pre-Seed Round
Things are moving fast! Some keen investors see the promise and potential in our product right off the bat.
Arbitrium
by Edgegap
February 2019
Launch of the Algorithm
Arbitrium, our (now patented) solution designed to automatically select the closest server to users, is finally completed!
Proof of Concept
with AAA StudioOctober 2019
Case Study with AAA Studio
Across 600k live data transactions, latency reduced by 58%. 78% of transactions were reduced below 50 ms, compared to 14% before we stepped in!
Seed Round
November 2019
$1M Seed Round
After carefully vetting our opportunities and focusing on gaming-specific investors, we raised our first major seed round of funding.
Live Deployment
with AAA StudioMay 2020
Deployment with AAA Studio
For 3 days, Edgegap handled the global user traffic (millions of users!) of a AAA. Our tech worked around a major outage with ease.
Patent Granted:
CA3092141CJanuary 2021
Patent Granted
Edgegap is granted its first patent in the US and Canada for our edge computing orchestrator, cementing ourselves as innovators in our industry.
Company Milestones
Founding
November 2018
Powering On
Founder Mathieu pitches his vision at the Berlin Edge Hackathon and wins first prize. Following a tidal wave of interest from attendees, Edgegap is born.
Pre-Seed Round
November 2018
$125k Pre-Seed Round
Things are moving fast! Some keen investors see the promise and potential in our product right off the bat.
Arbitrium
by Edgegap
February 2019
Launch of the Algorithm
Arbitrium, our (now patented) solution designed to automatically select the closest server to users, is finally completed!
Proof of Concept
with AAA StudioOctober 2019
Case Study with AAA Studio
Across 600k live data transactions, latency reduced by 58%. 78% of transactions were reduced below 50 ms, compared to 14% before we stepped in!
Seed Round
November 2019
$1M Seed Round
After carefully vetting our opportunities and focusing on gaming-specific investors, we raised our first major seed round of funding.
Live Deployment
with AAA StudioMay 2020
Deployment with AAA Studio
For 3 days, Edgegap handled the global user traffic (millions of users!) of a AAA. Our tech worked around a major outage with ease.
Patent Granted:
CA3092141CJanuary 2021
Patent Granted
Edgegap is granted its first patent in the US and Canada for our edge computing orchestrator, cementing ourselves as innovators in our industry.
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