On a mission to build a web without loading times

1. 2012

   Doctoral thesis

   Speed Kit CEO Dr. Felix Gessert explored the web performance impact of caching technologies during his doctoral thesis at the University of Hamburg.

2. 2013

   Performance research

   Our team received the renowned EXIST business startup grant from the German government to fund the complex and innovative web performance research.

3. 2014

   Baqend launch

   Before working on Speed Kit, our team launched a backend-as-a-service product called Baqend and further explored the business potential of caching technologies.

4. 2015

   First employees

   Our tech-driven company started to grow quickly by hiring talented computer science students and graduates from the University of Hamburg.

5. 2017

   Speed Kit launch

   With the release of the innovative browser technology called "service workers" in 2017, our company pivoted from a backend-as-a-service to a software-as-a-service for website acceleration.