Volterra

Volterra was a Santa Clara-based distributed cloud company founded in 2017 by Ankur Singla, Harshad Nakil, and Ashish Ranjan, offering the VoltMesh (multi-cloud networking and security) and VoltStack (edge application deployment) SaaS platforms on a global application delivery network. Backed by roughly $50M from Khosla Ventures, Mayfield, M12, Samsung NEXT, and Itochu Technology Ventures, Volterra was acquired by F5 in January 2021 for approximately $500M and became the foundation of F5 Distributed Cloud Services. Its API surface (ves.io.schema, console.ves.volterra.io) is catalogued in the F5 Distributed Cloud Services profile, while the Volterra-branded Terraform provider and vesctl CLI remain published and maintained by F5.

Volterra is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Edge Computing, Multi-Cloud, Distributed Cloud, and Networking.

Volterra’s developer surface includes CLI and 6 more developer resources.

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8.9/100 minimal ▬ flat Agent 0/100 human only library Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-09-08 · rubric v0.20.0

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Company Edge Computing Multi-CloudDistributed CloudNetworking Application Security Kubernetes Acquired

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scored 2026-09-08 · rubric v0.20.0

Composite quality — 8.9/100 · minimal

Contract Quality 0.0 / 25

Developer Ergonomics 2.9 / 20

Access Clarity 0.0 / 20

Operational Transparency 0.3 / 13

Contract Governance 0.0 / 12

Discoverability 5.7 / 10

Agent readiness — 0/100 · human only

Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 10

Documented Reversibility 0 / 6

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8

Request/Response Examples 0 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 0 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 0 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

A2A Agent Card 0 / 8

Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4

Delegated User Identity 0 / 6

Protected Resource Metadata 0 / 5

Registration Without a Human 0 / 6

Agentic Commerce Well-Known Document 0 / 5

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Security Posture 1

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Volterra Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DNSSEC

SECURITY

Resources

Agent Surfaces 1

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LLMsTxt

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Build 4

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GitHubOrganization

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Access & Security 1

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DomainSecurity

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Company 1

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Website

Website

Source (apis.yml)

aid: volterra
name: Volterra
description: Volterra was a Santa Clara-based distributed cloud company founded in 2017 by Ankur Singla, Harshad Nakil, and
  Ashish Ranjan, offering the VoltMesh (multi-cloud networking and security) and VoltStack (edge application deployment) SaaS
  platforms on a global application delivery network. Backed by roughly $50M from Khosla Ventures, Mayfield, M12, Samsung
  NEXT, and Itochu Technology Ventures, Volterra was acquired by F5 in January 2021 for approximately $500M and became the
  foundation of F5 Distributed Cloud Services. Its API surface (ves.io.schema, console.ves.volterra.io) is catalogued in the
  F5 Distributed Cloud Services profile, while the Volterra-branded Terraform provider and vesctl CLI remain published and
  maintained by F5.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/volterra/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- mayfield
- partech
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: portfolio-lead
x-status: acquired
x-acquired-by: f5
x-acquisition-date: 2021-01
x-successor: f5-distributed-cloud-services
deliveryModel:
  model: library
  open_source: false
  commercial: false
  callable_host: false
  label: Library · distributed through package registries, no callable service
  confidence: low
  source:
  - none
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Unknown
  confidence: low
  source:
  - url: https://www.volterra.io/
    status: 301
    note: declared website redirects to https://www.f5.com/products/distributed-cloud-services — a different registrable domain
      (volterra.io -> f5.com), possible rename or acquisition (probed 2026-09-03, roadmap#169)
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
specificationVersion: '0.23'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-21'
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/volterra.png
tags:
- Company
- Edge Computing
- Multi-Cloud
- Distributed Cloud
- Networking
- Application Security
- Kubernetes
- Acquired
apis: []
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/volterra-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://www.volterra.io/
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/volterraedge
- type: Packages
  url: packages/volterra-packages.yml
- type: SDKs
  url: packages/volterra-packages.yml
- type: CLI
  url: cli/volterra-cli.yml
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/volterra-llms.txt
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-21'
  status: enriched
  artifacts_added: 5
  pass: local-v1

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