Xunlei - About the company
Xunlei is a public company based in Shanghai (China), founded in 2003. It operates as a Content distribution and delivery network. Xunlei has raised $340M in funding from IDG Capital and Xiaomi. The company has 214 active competitors, including 27 funded and 36 that have exited. Its top competitors include companies like CloudFlare, Akamai and Fastly.
Company Details
Content distribution and delivery network. Provides cloud acceleration technologies and products to provide users with capacity entertainment data transmission based cloud computing services to help users quickly obtain digital content on multiple terminals. It also offers advertising services and platform to the advertisers using pay per view services. It also develops intelligent routers.
Key Metrics
Founded Year
2003
Location
Shanghai, China
Stage
Public
Total Funding
$340M in 4 rounds
Latest Funding Round
Investors
Ranked
5th among 214 active competitors
Employee Count
264 as on Jun 30, 2026
Investment & Acquisitions
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Exit Details
Public
Xunlei's IPO details
Xunlei got listed on Jun 27, 2014.
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Xunlei's funding and investors
Xunlei has raised a total funding of $340M over 4 rounds. Its first funding round was on 2003. Its latest funding round was a Series D round on Apr 2014 for $*****. 4 investors participated in its latest round. Xunlei has 10 institutional investors.
Here is the list of recent funding rounds of Xunlei:
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Filter this listDate of Funding | Funding Amount | Round Name | Post-Money Valuation | Revenue Multiple | Lead Investors | Other Investors |
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Apr 2014 | 6496442 | Series D | 3973901 | 1406953 | 2460031 | 7687962 |
Dec 2006 | 2854165 | Series B | 5836758 | 9833704 | 9171488 | 5252670 |
2005 | 3854 | Series B | 8185 | 9504 |
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Xunlei's founders and board of directors
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Xunlei has 264 employees as of Jun 26. Here is Xunlei's employee count trend over the years:
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Xunlei's Competitors and alternates
Top competitors of Xunlei include CloudFlare, Akamai and Fastly. Here is the list of Top 10 competitors of Xunlei, ranked by Tracxn score:
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Rank | Company Details | Short Description | Total Funding | Investors | Tracxn Score |
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1st | CloudFlare 2009, San Francisco (United States), Public | Provider of cloud services for security, performance, and application development | $332M | 87/100 | |
2nd | Akamai 1998, Cambridge (United States), Public | Provider of cloud computing, security, and content delivery network services | $61.5M | 82/100 | |
3rd | Fastly 2011, San Francisco (United States), Public | Provider of edge cloud platform services for building and delivering applications | $224M | 76/100 | |
4th | TVU Networks 2005, Mountain View (United States), Series B | Provider of IP-based video solutions for live media production workflows | $13.6M | 69/100 | |
5th | Content distribution and delivery network | $340M | 66/100 | ||
6th | CDN solutions | $79M | 65/100 | ||
7th | Zenlayer 2014, Diamond Bar (United States), Series C | Provider of distributed cloud infrastructure, networking, and connectivity solutions | $90M | 63/100 | |
8th |  CDNetworks 2000, Singapore (Singapore), Late Stage | Global provider of cloud-based content delivery network and security solutions | $96.5M | 62/100 | |
9th | Limelight 2001, Tempe (United States), Public | Cloud based content delivery network solutions provider | $130M | 61/100 | |
10th | DDoS protection and CDN solutions provider | $29M | 56/100 |
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Xunlei's Investments and acquisitions
Xunlei has made 8 investments in companies including Beijing Lanwan Bowan Technology and Insta360. Xunlei has also acquired 1 companies including Kuanghui Keji.Here is the list of investments & acquisitions:Filter this list
Filter this listDate of Investment/Acquisition | Type | Company Name | Founded Year | Location |
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Jun 04, 2025 | Acquisition | 2021 | Shanghai (China) | |
Dec 23, 2021 | Investments | 2018 | Chaoyang (China) | |
Mar 19, 2019 | Investments | 2014 | Shenzhen (China) |
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News related to Xunlei
Filter this listMedia has covered Xunlei for a total of 12 events in the last 1 year, 1 of them has been about company updates.
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Xunlei Limited Announces Unaudited Financial Results for the Second Quarter Ended June 30, 2026GlobeNewswire•Aug 13, 2026•Xunlei
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Xunlei Limited Announces Unaudited Financial Results for the First Quarter Ended March 31, 2026GlobeNewswire•May 28, 2026•Xunlei
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Xunlei Announces Unaudited Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2025 Financial ResultsGlobeNewswire•Mar 12, 2026•Xunlei
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Connor Clark & Lunn Investment Management Ltd. Acquires 436,176 Shares of Vodafone Group PLC $VODMarketBeat•Nov 14, 2025•Connor, Clark & Lunn Financial Group, Vodafone, Light & Wonder, WPP and 7 others
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Xunlei Non-GAAP EPADS of $0.09, revenue of $126.4M; initiates Q4 outlookSeeking Alpha•Nov 13, 2025•Xunlei
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