Wikipedia Draft:Azion Technologies

Headquartered in Palo Alto, California, USA, Azion is an edge platform that simplifies how to build, secure, deliver, and observe modern applications anywhere: with a network of hundreds of edge locations around the world, to deploy applications on remote, on premises and multi-cloud as needed.

Azion currently has offices in Brazil, Mexico, and the United States, and its mission is to enable the hyper-connected economy.

History
Azion was founded in 2011, by Rafael Umann, a passionate innovation entrepreneur and edge computing expert with over 20 years of experience in the cybersecurity and high-tech industries.[1]

Considered by Gartner to be one of the top 10 technology trends impacting infrastructure and operations areas, Edge Computing enables innovative mission critical services needed to build the future of e-commerce, gaming, finance, media, and applications such as IoT, Edge AI, 5G, Augmented Reality (AR), and Virtual Reality (VR).[2]

The name "Azion" is a derivation of the word "azione" from the Italian language, whose meaning is "action". The phrase "Action is the real measure of intelligence" by Napoleon Hill was the inspiration behind the name.

Operations
Azion's headquarters is located in Palo Alto - United States, software development is distributed in the countries where it operates, with a large presence in Porto Alegre - Brazil, where it maintains most of its service-related operations, including technical support and product development.

Investments
Azion has grown over 50% YoY without any external investment. In late 2020, It received a capital injection led by monashees and Qualcomm Ventures[10] to grow the R&D team, with the goal of expanding its Edge Platform and increasing sales and marketing teams in the US and Latam. Today there are about 300+ employees spread around the world.