Telstra Ventures invests in leading application delivery platform provider NGINX

21 April, 2016 – Telstra
Ventures today announced it had completed a strategic investment in NGINX,
Inc., a San Francisco based company whose open source software powers more than
half of the world’s busiest websites.

Mark Sherman, Managing Director of Telstra Ventures, said the
investment was driven by the company’s strong market growth as well as its
growing technology leadership in the application delivery and deployment
market.

“When you look
under the hood of many of the most popular websites around the world today you
find NGINX’s technology. This business continues to grow their share of the web
server market and has compelling value-add propositions to sell,” said Mr
Sherman.

“NGINX provides a popular application delivery platform, which is
renowned for its load balancing capabilities, high performance, security, and
scale, and is in use on more than 140 million sites worldwide. They
consistently deliver improved capabilities and performance for video heavy sites,
and sites experiencing high traffic volumes.

“We are looking
forward to working closely with NGINX to improving our customer experience and
help our users embrace more software-defined application services,” added Mr
Sherman.

Gus Robertson, Chief Executive Officer of NGINX, welcomed the investment from Telstra
and the other parties involved in the funding round.

“We see Telstra as an important partner in expanding our market reach to
new geographies. Telstra has an extensive customer footprint, both in Australia
and across Asia-Pacific. We are looking forward to working with them to bring
our technology solutions to companies across the region,” said Mr Robertson.

“NGINX offers our users a modern-day tool
set to develop, deploy and maintain their applications and websites, which is
mission-critical for all digital businesses today, especially anyone involved
in e-commerce, or media and entertainment.”