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Akamai is the cybersecurity and cloud computing company that powers and protects business online. Our market-leading security solutions, superior threat intelligence, and global operations team provide defense in depth to safeguard enterprise data and applications everywhere. Akamai’s full-stack cloud computing solutions deliver performance and affordability on the world’s most distributed platform. Founded by MIT Professor Dr. Tom Leighton and graduate student Danny Lewin in 1998, Akamai was a finalist in the $50K Entrepreneurship Competition for its innovation in Internet content delivery. Today, Akamai maintains close ties to the MIT community and the competition that started it all.

In 1990, David Morgenthaler (MIT S.B., S.M. ‘41) donated $30K to fund the grand prize for the first three years of the then $10K Competition. His gift paved the path for MIT's $100K to give millions away in non-dilutive funding, launching over 160 companies and creating 1,600+ jobs. The Morgenthaler Foundation generously supports the $100K Competition to ensure David’s commitment to MIT’s entrepreneurial ecosystem lives on, enabling many more MIT students, staff, and alums to change the world through their groundbreaking ideas.