Private company

Hurricane Electric

Logo: Mahtin, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons³

American telecommunications provider

Hurricane Electric is an American Internet service provider offering Internet transit, tools, and network applications, as well as data center colocation and hosting services at one location in San Jose, California and two locations in Fremont, California, where the company is based. As of June 2024, according to its own data, Hurricane Electric is the largest global IP network as measured by network adjacencies in both IPv4 and IPv6.² Wikipedia text CC BY-SA 4.0

Last updated Oct 21, 2026.

Overview

1994Founded¹

Industryinternet service provider¹
HeadquartersFremont¹
Websitehe.net
Legal formlimited liability company¹

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Timeline

1994Founded Founded¹

Funding

Where the company's money came from, by calendar year: private offerings filed with the SEC, federal grants, loans, contracts and other assistance from USAspending.gov, and PPP loans from the SBA. Each bar links to the records below.

Money received by year$1.9M 2020–2020

PPP loans $1.9M

Figures by year

Year	PPP loans	Total
2020	$1.9M	$1.9M

PPP loans

Paycheck Protection Program loans of $150,000 and up, approved April 2020 to July 2021, from the SBA⁴. Matched to this company by name and state.

Apr 27, 2020$1.9M PPP loan (first draw) from Harvest Small Business Finance, LLC⁴To HURRICANE ELECTRIC LLC, Fremont CA; $1.9M forgiven Apr 20, 2021

Sources

The numbers on this page point here. Each one links to the record it came from.

1
WikidataHurricane Electric on Wikidata
2
WikipediaHurricane Electric on Wikipedia
3
Wikimedia CommonsHurricane Electric logo by Mahtin, Public domain
4
SBASBA Paycheck Protection Program loan data (FOIA), loans of $150,000 and up

Overview

Timeline

Funding

PPP loans

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