SA start-up Snapt snags Nasa and billionaires’ backing

When NASA wanted to phone home from outer space, a company it chose to help make the call was Snapt, a start-up from Johannesburg backed by billionaires Johann Rupert and Nicky Oppenheimer that has now landed in Silicon Valley.  Snapt founder Dave Blakey was just 14 when, together with his father, he started a computer company that developed hardware to manage bandwidth. Now his company Snapt does much and more of the same thing — helping manage computer traffic, balance loads among servers and accelerate Web flow — but in software format.

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