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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scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5

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CompanyEdge ComputingMulti-CloudDistributed CloudNetworkingApplication SecurityKubernetesAcquired

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Composite quality — 10.0/100 · minimal

Contract Quality 0.0 / 25

Developer Ergonomics 2.6 / 20

Commercial Clarity 0.0 / 20

Operational Transparency 0.7 / 13

Governance 0.0 / 12

Discoverability 6.8 / 10

Agent readiness — 0/100 · human only

Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 15

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

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Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

LLMsTxt

LLMsTxt

Build 4

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitHubOrganization

Packages

SDKs

CLI

Access & Security 1

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Company 1

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

Source (apis.yml)

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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.
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