App delivery & security platform for hybrid/multicloud & AI workloads
- Total raised
- —
- Employees
- 6,164
- Founded
- 1996
- Momentum
- 49
Cooling
Data updated July 2026
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F5 is a cybersecurity company specializing in Network Security, founded in 1996 and headquartered in Seattle, United States. It employs about 6,164 people and is publicly traded.
F5 provides application delivery and security solutions designed to optimize, secure, and manage applications across hybrid and multicloud environments. The company offers the F5 Application Delivery and Security Platform (ADSP), which serves as a unified platform for delivering consistent security and performance across diverse infrastructure deployments. F5's solutions address AI infrastructure requirements by providing high-performance networking, traffic management, and security capabilities for AI workloads throughout the AI pipeline. This includes data ingestion, model training, inference, and edge deployment. The company's technology enables organizations to handle the intensive computational demands of AI applications through optimized data movement, GPU orchestration, and network segmentation. The company's security offerings protect AI applications, models, and data through API security, real-time traffic inspection, web application scanning, and defenses against prompt-level threats such as prompt injections and data leakage. F5 recently acquired CalypsoAI to enhance AI runtime protection capabilities for models and agents. F5's product portfolio includes solutions for traffic management, load balancing, application security, and distributed cloud services. The company works with technology partners including NVIDIA to deliver reference architectures for AI infrastructure. F5 serves organizations deploying applications and AI workloads across on-premises data centers, cloud platforms, and edge environments, providing capabilities for scalability, availability, and performance optimization.
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When was F5 founded?▾
F5 was founded in 1996.
Where is F5 headquartered?▾
F5 is headquartered in Seattle, United States.
Is F5 public or private?▾
F5 is a publicly-traded company.
How many employees does F5 have?▾
F5 has approximately 6,164 employees.
What does F5 do?▾
F5 provides application delivery and security solutions designed to optimize, secure, and manage applications across hybrid and multicloud environments. The company offers the F5 Application Delivery and Security Platform (ADSP), which serves as a unified platform for delivering consistent security…
