India’s answer to Cloudflare? VergeCloud bets on speed, security, and scale
As India’s internet demand soars, VergeCloud wants to be the homegrown rival to Cloudflare and AWS with faster, safer, and more reliable networks.
Cloudflare and AWS keep much of the world’s internet running, from helping websites stay online during heavy traffic to protecting them from cyberattacks. However, for many Indian businesses, re-routing traffic via foreign companies leads to latency issues, outages, and security risks.
Bengaluru-based VergeCloud wants to solve this issue. The startup is building India’s first globally trusted Content Delivery Network (CDN) and edge platform to make the internet faster, safer, and more reliable for companies.
Founded in 2024 by Amin Habibi and Hamid Rostami, VergeCloud addresses what Habibi calls the industry’s three biggest challenges: rising demand, security risks, and compliance concerns tied to data sovereignty.
The need is urgent. According to a Datareportal report, global internet users are expected to reach 5.56 billion by the end of 2025, each consuming an average of 23 GB of mobile data a month. Yet only 7% of Indian companies, and just 4% worldwide, are ready for AI-driven cyber threats. “Until now, no company from India offered cloud services to the world,” Habibi says. That’s where VergeCloud steps in.
After six years in IT management services, where he launched four ventures, Habibi turned venture capitalist and spent nearly eight years investing in startups. But the pull of building proved too strong. “I realised it was a good time to leave the investor seat and go back to the rollercoaster, to feel again what it’s like to be a founder,” he says.
In 2018, Habibi and his co-founder began experimenting with private cloud modules, selling them as white-label solutions to enterprises. By 2021, they combined these modules into a single platform, and after securing funding, formally registered VergeCloud in India on October 3, 2024.
Today, VergeCloud operates out of Bengaluru and Oman, with a 40-member team, two-thirds of them in technology roles.
The VergeCloud offering
At its core, VergeCloud is a deeptech B2B infrastructure company built around three key offerings. The first is its CDN, designed to cut latency and improve speed. Clients simply switch their name servers to VergeCloud, and the platform immediately begins shielding them from attacks while enhancing performance.
The second is a cybersecurity suite that secures critical business infrastructure with web application firewalls, DDoS protection, TCP proxy, and bot management.
The third is edge computing, powered by 11 Points of Presence (PoPs) across India, including Tier II and Tier III cities, to process data closer to consumers for faster, more reliable services. In industry terms, a PoP is a physical access point or data center where servers are placed to deliver content locally, by reducing distance, improving speed, and cutting network delays.
These capabilities have already won over OTT platforms, where milliseconds can make or break user experience. “For them, latency is everything. We bring it down to below 30 milliseconds,” Habibi says. Fintech and ecommerce firms also rely on the platform to prevent downtime.
“Even one minute of servers being down is a huge loss. With us, their servers are always protected,” he adds.
Beyond its core infrastructure, VergeCloud is also weaving AI into operations. It uses a small in-house language model for internal tasks, and a retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) model to power customer support. It is also developing an AI tool to scan logs and automatically flag issues, and aims to launch in 2026.
Pricing and revenue
VergeCloud’s first clients were OTT platforms like Bada Natkhat and an NGO, SaiSure, which needed faster streaming. Since then, the company has grown to serve over 20 B2B clients, including Tata ClassEdge, Nootankii, Tiku, Future Corp Consulting, and other fintech, ecommerce, and pharma firms.
The startup operates as a SaaS platform, offering three plans: a startup plan beginning at Rs 1,600 per month; a professional plan at about $200 (Rs 20,000) per month; and enterprise plans starting from Rs 2 lakh per month, customised as per client needs. Add-ons are billed separately on a pay-as-you-go basis.
The startup raised $3 million in a friends-and-family funding round in early 2024. Habibi says, “Our current valuation is expected to be around $30 million.”
Competing with giants
The CDN and cloud security market is dominated by giants like Akamai, Cloudflare, AWS, and Google Cloud. For a young startup like VergeCloud, this could seem daunting, but Habibi reveals its biggest edge: an India-first focus.
“We’re building India’s first global CDN, compliant with all standards, and planning to expand our network from 11 to 16 site PoPs by 2026,” he says. The startup also differentiates itself with a unified platform that combines CDN, DNS, WAF, and DDoS protection in one dashboard.
One of the biggest challenges for the startup has been awareness. “About 6o% of the market doesn’t even know what a CDN is,” Habibi says. VergeCloud is planning to organise webinars and sessions to bridge this gap.
What’s next?
The company’s expansion roadmap includes Southeast Asian markets like Indonesia, Thailand, Malaysia, and Singapore, where internet usage is booming. But the focus on India will remain laser sharp. “At least 80% of our energy will go here,” Habibi says
On the product front, the company is preparing to roll out new offerings: video CDN tailored for streaming services (in the next two to three months), smart routing (within six months), API security (in six months), and zero-trust network access (ZTNA) within a year. The roadmap also includes GPU-powered and AI-driven computation at the edge.
According to Coherent Market Insights, the Indian market size for Content Delivery Network (CDN) services is estimated to be $1.02 billion in 2025, and is projected to reach around $2.44 billion by 2032, growing at a CAGR of 13.3%. “We’re aiming to capture around 20% in the next 7 years,” Habibi says.
“We are proud to say we are building the first globally trusted CDN from India,” Habibi says. “This is just the beginning.”