- KAPE Technologies, owner of ExpressVPN, has announced a wave of redundancies on the VPN company
- The total number of redundancies remains unobstructed
- This comes weeks after major updates to its proprietary lightway wireguard protocol
ExpressVPN has announced a round of layoffs in an official statement.
This is the second time that Kape Technologies-owned company has taken the ax to its workforce of two years after it threw 12% of its staff in July 2023.
According to Tom’s GuideExpressVPN has not specified the number of jobs that are lost so far, with the statement that only read that the company has made the “difficult decision to reduce the size of our workforce”.
The declaration does not mention any cuts on either private Internet access (PIA) or Cyberghost – two VPNs also under the KAPE umbrella.
ExpressVPN is still currently announcing more job openings in both technology and security on the company’s website as well as in marketing and accounting and finance. So how significant this is as a sign of problems ahead of this VPN service is hard to measure.
In fact, ExpressVPN recently released significant updates to its VPN protocol, Lightway, along with major updates to its Linux app earlier this month. The company also entered the eSIM market with the launch of Holiday.com in December.
There also seems to be plenty of funds in the marketing chests with ExpressVPN, which announces a partnership with Tottenham Hotspur Football Club as the official digital privacy partner in November.
ExpressVPN places third in Techradar’s best VPN guide at the time of writing. It peaked these charts for several years until the beginning of 2024, when NordVPN was named best VPN.
ExpressVPN slipped longer later that year when Surfshark climbed to the other.
We look forward to trying ExpressVPN in the coming months to see how its Lightway protocol has improved and whether its bid to be the fastest VPN on the block has received a lift from Lightway Turbo.
