Short · checked 29 September 2026
The South African load balancer maker that ceased operations in 2022.
A software load balancer listed in 2016 whose South African maker raised a US$3 million Series A in 2018, launched Nova in 2020 and told customers in October 2022 that it was ceasing operations immediately.
Snapt's Stompstart page, saved in March 2016, described its product as a "Layer 7 server load balancer." Snapt Balancer, the listing said, was "one of the most advanced load balancing platforms in the world," ready for cloud, virtual machine and software installs. It took a site's traffic, split it between servers and checked that each one was online before sending users to it. The listing gave the location as "Ga, United States."
Dave Blakey and Douglas Cherry founded Snapt in South Africa in 2012, Ventureburn reported in its story on a US$3 million round from Nedbank, Sanari Capital and Convergence Partners, announced in December 2018. About three quarters of Snapt's 25 staff worked in Cape Town, it said, and the company had offices in Atlanta and San Jose. Snapt claimed more than 10,000 active users in over 50 countries, and Ventureburn listed Target, MTV, Intel and NASA among its customers.
In April 2020 Snapt launched Nova, a centrally managed application delivery controller built for Kubernetes that combined load balancing, web acceleration, a web application firewall and global server load balancing. The release described Snapt as a venture-funded private company based in San Jose.
On 14 October 2022, Disrupt Africa reported a message Snapt had sent its customers: "Given recent unforeseen events, outside of our control, Snapt has been left with no option but to cease operations immediately." It stopped selling its Nova, NovaSense and Aria licences at once, ended Aria support and said all Nova systems would stop working at the end of the month. Disrupt Africa noted that Snapt had taken on no funding since 2018.
The snapt.net address no longer leads to a working site.