BaishanCloud

Established in April 2015 by co-founders Huo Tao (CEO) and Dai Xiang, BaishanCloud operates as an independent edge cloud service provider with its origins in China and a significant global footprint. The founders, formerly in top management at a leading US-listed content delivery service provider in China, started the company motivated to build a globally respected technology firm. The company has successfully raised a total of $87.4 million over four funding rounds, with the latest being a Series C round.

BaishanCloud's business centers on providing a suite of integrated edge cloud services encompassing network, security, and computing. The company's core market is enterprise clients across a wide array of industries, including social media, e-commerce, gaming, finance, transportation, and healthcare, who require high performance and security for their digital applications. Revenue is generated by providing these services which address the challenges of content delivery, application acceleration, and cybersecurity. The company has a notable and rapidly growing overseas presence, which accounted for 26.2% of its revenue in the first half of 2023, and it established the EdgeNext brand to specifically manage this international expansion.

The company's flagship offering is the Baishan Canvas platform, a unified edge cloud solution that integrates its services. This platform utilizes a global network of over 1,700 edge nodes in more than 300 cities to process data closer to the end-user, thereby reducing latency and improving performance. Key services include a Content Delivery Network (CDN) for webpage, download, and media acceleration; cloud security products such as DDoS protection, Web Application Firewall (WAF), and Zero Trust access; and serverless edge computing, which allows developers to run code at the edge without managing infrastructure. A significant feature is its Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) architecture, which combines network capabilities with cloud-native security to address modern security challenges. The company's Intelligent Platform as a Service (iPaaS) solution enables clients to manage and integrate APIs, facilitating the connection of disparate systems and data.

Keywords: edge cloud, content delivery network, CDN, SASE, zero trust security, serverless computing, cloud security, web application firewall, DDoS protection, API management, global network services, application acceleration, edge computing platform, data life cycle management, hybrid IT integration, PaaS, cloud data services, network security solutions, digital experience optimization, global content delivery