CenturyLink

CenturyLink is a prominent telecommunications company headquartered in Monroe, Louisiana, recognized as the third largest in the United States. The company offers a wide range of services, including broadband internet, voice, wireless, and advanced entertainment options such as Prism TV and DIRECTV. Catering to both residential and small business customers, CenturyLink provides additional products like WiFi range extenders, security cameras, and tools for remote work and learning. The company serves a diverse clientele that includes Fortune 500 businesses, government entities, and families in rural areas, leveraging its extensive fiber optic network and multiple data centers. CenturyLink is acknowledged as a leader in the network services sector, underscoring its commitment to delivering high-quality telecommunications solutions across local, national, and select international markets.

Neel Dev

Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer

Don Hunsaker

Director, Finance

Kathleen Lutito

President and Chief Investment Officer

Shane Matson

Vice President, Investments and Operations

Sunit Patel

Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer

Glen F. Post III

CEO and President

Jeff Storey

President and Chief Executive Officer

Kristie Waugh

Vice President, Investor Relations

16 past transactions

Streamroot

Acquisition in 2019
Streamroot, Inc. develops peer-to-peer video streaming technology for content delivery networks. Its solution is used for live streaming of sporting events, concerts, video conferences, enterprise streams, Web radio, and video-on-demand; and enables users to integrate, monitor, analyze, and manage videos. The company was founded in 2013 and is based in Boston, Massachusetts. As of September 6, 2019, Streamroot, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of CenturyLink, Inc..

RiskSense

Series A in 2017
RiskSense®, Inc. provides vulnerability prioritization and management to measure and control cybersecurity risk. The cloud-based RiskSense platform uses a foundation of risk-based scoring, analytics, and technology-accelerated pen testing to identify critical security weaknesses with corresponding remediation action plans, dramatically improving security and IT team efficiency and effectiveness. The company delivers a fully-informed picture of group, department, and organizational cybersecurity risk with our credit-like RiskSense Security Score (RS3). The RiskSense platform continuously correlates customer infrastructure with comprehensive internal and external vulnerability data, threat intelligence, human pen test findings, and business asset criticality to measure risk, provide early warning of weaponization, predict attacks, and prioritize remediation activities to achieve security risk goals

SEAL Consulting

Acquisition in 2017
SEAL Consulting Inc. is a prominent provider of SAP solutions tailored for enterprise-wide business and technology needs. Established in 1996 and based in Edison, New Jersey, the company specializes in various areas including business intelligence, supply chain management, financial supply chain management, supplier relationship management, e-sourcing, and master data management. SEAL Consulting also offers services related to the SAP HANA platform, SAP implementation and integration, application management, and business case development. With a focus on finance, retail, analytics, manufacturing, technology, procurement, and supply chain, the company is equipped to deliver high-quality resources and expertise to clients globally, either on-site or through offshore delivery. As of January 2017, SEAL Consulting operates as a subsidiary of CenturyLink, Inc.

Level 3 Communications

Acquisition in 2016
Level 3 Communications is a premier global communications provider headquartered in Broomfield, Colorado, that provides communications services to enterprise, government and carrier customers. Anchored by extensive fiber networks on three continents and connected by undersea facilities, their global services platform features deep metro assets reaching more than 500 markets in more than 60 countries. Level 3’s global network reliably and securely provides enhanced, scalable network capabilities to address the increasingly complex operating environment of today’s technology landscape. They take end-to-end responsibility for monitoring and maintaining the network. They listen to what you need and engineer solutions to your specifications. Their comprehensive portfolio of data, security, video, voice and unified communications solutions provide powerful options to address your most difficult IT challenges. They can help you grow your business, expand into new markets and improve the efficiency of your operations. Because when it comes to your success, they believe it’s just as much their responsibility as it is yours.

ElasticBox

Acquisition in 2016
ElasticBox powers agile application delivery on public and private clouds so businesses can innovate faster. By empowering developers to be more productive and providing control to IT Ops, customers like Netflix, DeNA and Cytobank use ElasticBox to accelerate their application lifecycles by 5-10x. With a reusable architecture of boxes, teams leverage ElasticBox to provision instances in one click, access a sophisticated service catalog of boxes, and execute continuous integration and delivery.

netAura

Acquisition in 2016
netAura is an engineering and analytics company that believes in simplifying IT. We focus on achieving stability first then ready for growth. This starts with good design. We intend to make the complex world of IT just a little easier to manage.

Orchestrate

Acquisition in 2015
Orchestrate offers a RESTful API service that simplifies database management for developers, allowing them to focus on building applications without the overhead of operating their own databases in production. Leveraging advanced NoSQL technologies, Orchestrate integrates various data retrieval methods, such as full-text search, social graphs, and time-ordered event queries, into a single interface. This comprehensive solution alleviates the operational and financial challenges associated with database deployment, enabling developers to efficiently create new applications and enhance existing ones. Orchestrate manages the complexities of constructing, operating, and scaling a robust and fault-tolerant data layer, streamlining the development process in the financial services industry and beyond.

Cognilytics

Acquisition in 2014
Cognilytics leverages its core competencies around Big Data, Data Strategy & Architecture, Data Lifecycle Management, Visualization and Advanced Predictive Analytics to help clients find key insights and trends within their data thereby solving real business problems and better business decision making, driving top line revenue, bottom-line uplift, operational excellence, risk mitigation and regulatory compliance.

DataGardens

Acquisition in 2014
DataGardens is focused on the development of disaster recovery software systems, including SafeHaven. The SafeHaven software suite is developed to protect information technology systems from power outages, software and hardware system failures, and more. DataGardens was acquired by CenturyLink in December 2014. It offers its services for enterprises and cloud providers. DataGardens was founded in 2007 and is headquartered in Edmonton, Alberta.

Egnyte

Series D in 2013
Egnyte, Inc. specializes in enterprise file sharing services both on-premises and in the cloud. Founded in 2006 and headquartered in Mountain View, California, the company offers a suite of products including a Cloud File Server for online storage and collaboration, Storage Sync for bi-directional synchronization between local systems and the cloud, and Storage Connect for direct access to local files without cloud migration. Egnyte serves a diverse range of industries, including technology, finance, education, healthcare, and more, with over 16,000 companies relying on its platform to enhance productivity and streamline data management. The cloud-native content services platform integrates with various storage solutions and business applications, providing secure access and centralized control, which empowers organizations to optimize their collaboration environments. Egnyte's strategic partnerships with firms like Seagate Technology and CenturyLink further enhance its offerings, while its data centers in the U.S. and Western Europe support its global operations.

Tier 3

Acquisition in 2013
Tier 3 unleashes business agility through unique, enterprise-class cloud services and software that puts global companies on the path to IT as a Service. The company’s virtual private cloud services combine both infrastructure (IaaS) and platform as a service (PaaS) in a comprehensive platform. The Tier 3 Cloud increases IT operational efficiency and flexibility through advanced cloud orchestration and management capabilities. Global enterprises and service providers find the Tier 3 Cloud ideal for their entire business application portfolios, from development to production environments and mission-critical applications.

AppFog

Acquisition in 2013
AppFog is a Platform-as-a-Service system for public clouds. This PaaS supports technology such as Java, Python, PHP, Ruby, MySQL, and more; and enables users to get add-ons and choose cross-cloud infrastructure such as CenturyLink Cloud, AWS US, AWS Europe, and AWS Asia.
Savvis (now known as CenturyLink Technology Solutions) provides cloud and managed solutions worldwide. It offers managed hosting services, including consulting, applications, email, hosting, and storage and backup services; security services such as application protection, authentication, consulting, denial-of-service, and firewall solutions; and cloud services comprising data center, developer, servers, storage, and consulting services. The company also provides co-location services, including data center, migration planning, network connectivity, structured cabling, and gold support services; network services such as consulting, internet, multi-protocol label switching virtual private network, and private line services; and storage services comprising unified storage, cloud storage, and backup and archiving services. In addition, it offers big data solutions; business applications; business continuity, disaster recovery-as-a-service, and disaster recovery solutions; consulting solutions such as cloud and virtualization, and migration and consolidation services; website hosting, web content management, and e-commerce solutions; IT outsourcing solutions such as application outsourcing, end-user service, and infrastructure solutions; and infrastructure optimization solutions. Savvis offers its services and solutions for enterprises primarily in the consumer packaged goods, financial services, government, media and entertainment, and retail industries. Savvis changed its name to CenturyLink Technology Solutions in January 2014. It was founded in 1995 and is headquartered in Town And Country, Missouri.

Qwest

Acquisition in 2011
Qwest is a large telecommunications carrier providing local service to the midwest and western regions of the US. Qwest provides voice, backbone data services, and digital television in some areas. It operates in three segments: Wireline Services, Wireless Services, and Other Services. The Wireline Services segment provides local voice, long distance voice, and data and Internet (DSL) services to consumers, businesses, and wholesale customers, as well as access services to wholesale customers. The Wireless Services segment is achieved by a partnership with Verizon Wireless. The Other Services segment primarily involves the sublease of real estate assets, such as space in office buildings, warehouses, and other properties.

Embarq

Acquisition in 2008
Embarq is a new company that, following the spin-off, will own the incumbent local communications operations conducted by Sprint Nextel and reported as its Local segment in its financial statements. The spin-off is a transaction that involves two general steps.

DishnetDSL

Private Equity Round in 2000
DishnetDSL was a broadband internet service provider in India.