Bandwidth is a communications platform as a service company. They sell software application programming interfaces (or APIs) for voice and messaging, using their own IP voice network. History Bandwidth was formed in 1999 by David Morken who was later joined by Henry Kaestner as co-founder in 2001, merging Bandwidth International into Bandwidth.com. Bandwidth moved to Centennial Campus of North Carolina State University in Raleigh, North Carolina in 2012. Bandwidth announced in 2020 a plan to move its corporate headquarters to 2021 Edwards Mill Road in Raleigh. The proposed campus is slated to include two five-story buildings, covering 450,000 square feet, and later an additional 350,000 square foot phase. Bandwidth also stated an intent to hire for some 1,000 new positions at the time of the announcement. As of December 31, 2018, Bandwidth maintains a workforce of 700+ employees. On November 10, 2017, the company had an initial public offering on the NASDAQ which raised $80 million in capital by selling 4 million $20 shares. Acquisitions On October 12, 2020, Bandwidth announced it had signed a definitive agreement to acquire Voxbone for an enterprise value of €446 million EUR. Partnership In August 2020, Bandwidth announced it had partnered with NC State University for a study that which ran from February 2019 to January 2020 to study fraudulent traffic patterns associated with robocalling. See also Unified communications Voxbone References External links Cloud communication platforms Software companies of the United States VoIP companies of the United States Companies listed on the Nasdaq 2017 initial public offerings Companies based in Raleigh, North Carolina Publicly traded companies of the United States Technology companies of the United States 1999 establishments in North Carolina Information technology companies of the United States American companies established in 1999 Software companies based in North Carolina Software companies established in 1999