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Keynote Systems

Logo: Keynote Systems, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons3

US-based Internet company founded in 19951

Keynote Systems was a U.S. based company that specialized in developing and marketing software as a service technology to measure, test, and improve from the end user perspective, the performance of websites, online content, applications, and services across browsers, networks, and mobile devices. Keynote provided independent testing, measurement and monitoring of mobile content, applications, and services on real devices across multiple mobile operator networks. Keynote Systems merged with Dynatrace in 2015.2 Wikipedia text CC BY-SA 4.0

Last updated Oct 21, 2026.

Overview

Jan 1, 1995Founded1
  • Industrysoftware industry1
  • HeadquartersSan Mateo1

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Keynote Systems was a U.S. based company that specialized in developing and marketing software as a service technology to measure, test, and improve from the end user perspective, the performance of websites, online content, applications, and services across browsers, networks, and mobile devices. Keynote provided independent testing, measurement and monitoring of mobile content, applications, and services on real devices across multiple mobile operator networks.2

How it started

History

Keynote Systems was founded in 1995. It launched "Keynote Perspective" in 1996 and launched Business 40 Internet Performance Index in 1997 and globalized internet-performance metrics securing $4.7 million in equity financing.

the company went public on NASDAQ on September 24, 1999. The company claimed corporate customers including American Express, BP, Caterpillar, Disney, eBay, E*TRADE, Expedia, Microsoft, Sony Ericsson, Sprint, T-Mobile, Verizon and Vodafone.

In 2001, Keynote added Google to Business 40 Internet Performance index.

In 2002, Keynote was named the 13th fastest growing North American tech company. In 2002, Keynote won InternetWeek's "Best of Breed" award.

In 2003, the company offered to buy back 7.5 million of its shares, or about 33 percent, for $71.3 million.

From Wikipedia’s article on Keynote Systems, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.2

Timeline

  1. Jan 1, 1995Founded Founded1

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