Fastly shares rocket more than 30% in IPO debut

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Fastly competes against the likes of Amazon and Google to help companies more quickly deliver their content to customers. Now it's a public company.

In 2018, Fastly had a $30.9 million net loss on $144.6 million in revenue. Revenue was up nearly 38% year over year, and the company narrowed its losses by 5%. Fastly recorded a $9.7 million net loss and $45.6 million in revenue in the first quarter; in that period revenue was up 40% year over year, although the loss grew almost 5%.

Fastly was founded in 2011 and is based in San Francisco, with 489 employees as of March 31. As of that date it had 1,621 customers, 243 of which the company identifies as enterprise customers -- organizations that have delivered more than $100,000 in the latest 12-month period. These enterprise customers gave Fastly 85% of its revenue in the first quarter.

Among the companies on Fastly's customer list are Hulu, Microsoft, the New York Times, Spotify and Wayfair.WATCH:

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