Section was founded in Australia in 2012 and moved its headquarters to the US in 2016. We now have offices in both Australia (NSW) and the United States (Colorado).
Section is backed by a group of top-shelf Venture Capital firms, led by the Foundry Group.
The Section team is a group of dedicated individuals who come from diverse backgrounds in engineering, operations, agile development, marketing, sales, and product.
Our collective passion is delivering a better Edge for Dev and Ops Engineers.
Section’s Edge as a Service (EaaS) gives Dev and Ops engineers the access and control they need to run compute workloads on a distributed edge.
Being container-based (Docker/Kubernetes), our platform includes the ability to build and bring your own edge module or select from our library of highly available and highly performant edge compute modules.
Section operates across the HTTP delivery path from origin to distributed network, is hosting provider-agnostic (cloud, on-premise, self-hosted, …), and has already been proven to address challenges far beyond traditional CDN workloads.
Section was born out of frustration with legacy CDNs.
Content Delivery Networks (CDNs) were an early manifestation of Edge Compute. However, CDNs:
Founded by Stewart McGrath and Daniel Bartholomew, who came from backgrounds in e-commerce and agile development, Section solves the challenges that Dev and Ops engineers face with legacy edge solutions such as CDNs.
