Cloudflare

Cloudflare is a web performance and security company providing services for the protection and acceleration of websites online that is headquartered in San Francisco, California and was founded din 2009 by Lee Holloway, Matthew Prince, and Michelle Zatlyn.

Funding

Series A

On November 25, 2009 Cloudflare completed their series A funding round with $2.1 million in funding from Venrock and Pelion Venture Partners.

Series B

On July 12, 2011 Cloudflare completed their series B funding round with $20 million in funding from New Enterprise Associates (lead investor), Venrock, and Pelion Venture Partners.

Series C

On December 17, 2013 Cloudflare completed their series C funding round with $50 million in funding from Union Square Ventures (lead investor), Venrock, Pelion Venture Partners, New Enterprise Associates, and Greenspring Associates.

Series D

On September 22, 2015 Cloudflare completed their series D funding round with $110 million in funding from Fidelity (lead investor), Venrock, Union Square Ventures, Qualcomm Ventures, Pelion Venture Partners, New Enterprise Associates, Microsoft Accelerator, Greenspring Associates, CapitalG, and Baidu.

Sereis E

On March 12, 2019 Cloudflare completed their series E funding round with $150 million in funding from Franklin Templeton Investments.

Timeline

January 22, 2021

Cloudflare releases a tool that aims to provide a way for health agencies and organizations globally tasked with rolling out COVID-19 vaccines to maintain a fair, equitable and transparent digital queue.

December 7, 2020

Cloudflare launches a new set of features called the Data Localization Suite.

July 27, 2020

Cloudflare announces the private beta launch of Workers Unbound, the latest step in its efforts to offer a serverless platform that can compete with the likes of AWS Lambda.

July 31, 2019

Cloudflare announces intention to IPO in September 2019.

April 2019

Cloudflare launches a security and speed-focused mobile VPN called Warp.

March 2019

Cloudflare raises a $150,000,000 series E round from Franklin Templeton Investments.

September 22, 2015

Cloudflare raises a $110,000,000 series D round from Baidu, CapitalG, Fidelity Investments, Qualcomm Ventures, Union Square Ventures and Venrock.

December 17, 2013

Cloudflare raises a $50,000,000 series C round from Greenspring Associates, New Enterprise Associates, Pelion Venture Partners, Union Square Ventures and Venrock.

July 12, 2011

Cloudflare raises a $20,000,000 series B round from New Enterprise Associates, Pelion Venture Partners and Venrock.

November 25, 2009

Cloudflare raises a $2,050,000 series A round from Pelion Venture Partners and Venrock.

Funding rounds

People

Name

Role

Lee Holloway

Co-Founder, Lead Engineer

Adarsh Seetharam

Employee

Alan Braithwaite

Employee

Andrea Ruggieri

Employee

Ben Dahl

Investor

Brett Thomas

Employee

Brian Harring

Employee

Brittany AB Fritsch

Employee

Carl Ledbetter

Investor

Dan Hollinger

Employee

Daniel Carrillo

Employee

Dave Koston

Employee

David Zakur

Employee

Dragos Bogdan

Employee

Gregory Allen

Employee

Ivan Babrou

Employee

Jacob Vincent

Employee

Jaime Cochran

Employee

Jason Tanner

Employee

Jeremy Teale

Employee

Jerome Fleury

Employee

Jimmy Yuen Ho Wong

Employee

Joe Mocquant

Employee

John Roberts

Employee

John Wineman

Employee

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Arms not long enough to reach the plug socket? Room-wide wireless charging is on the way

Lindsay Clark

September 1, 2021

go.theregister.com

Hold onto your hats, tinfoil brigade!

Official Taliban Websites Go Offline, Reasons Unknown

August 21, 2021

Moneycontrol

Twitter has not removed Taliban accounts and the group's spokesman, Zabihullah Mujahid, has more than 300,000 followers there.

Content delivery networks hope you've never heard of them -- but if there's an outage, it's big news

Stephanie Chalmers

August 11, 2021

www.abc.net.au

It may seem strange for a business to hope you've never heard of it, but that's exactly what content delivery network providers would like. Recent high-profile outages of news sites and bank apps have highlighted how reliant we are on these networks.

Intrepid squid mission may help in kraken riddle of why zero-g makes astronauts sick

Matt Dupuy

June 23, 2021

go.theregister.com

Boffins looking for changes to cephalopods' symbiotic relationship with bioluminescent bacteria on ISS

Spacey McSpaceface: Artemis takes shape ahead of '2021' launch - but first you need to name the crash-test dummy

Richard Speed

June 23, 2021

go.theregister.com

Next up, the rocket stage to send mannequin to the Moon

Cloudflare announces new integrations with Microsoft, others

Alex Scroxton

June 22, 2021

ComputerWeekly.com

New security integrations with Microsoft Azure Sentinel, Splunk, Datadog and Sumo Logic will supposedly make it easier for users to analyse network security data

An obscure service provider briefly broke the internet Tuesday. It could happen again

Clare Duffy, CNN Business

June 9, 2021

CNN

A giant chunk of the internet briefly broke on Tuesday because of an outage at a company most people have probably never heard of before.

Massive internet outage hits websites including Amazon, gov.uk and Guardian

Alex Hern Technology editor

June 8, 2021

the Guardian

Technical problem traced to network run by Fastly brings some sites down entirely

An equivalent of 500 years wasted on CAPTCHA every day, Cloudflare says

Aditya Saroha

May 24, 2021

The Hindu

CAPTCHA stands for Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart, a way for online services to separate humans from bots.

When humanity perishes in nuclear fire, the University of Essex's radiation-resistant robots will inherit the Earth

Matthew Hughes

May 21, 2021

go.theregister.com

Never mind the Clacton-on-Sea pier. They've got £600k to build power plant butlers

ESA signs off on contracts for lunar data relay and navigation

Richard Speed

May 21, 2021

go.theregister.com

Surrey Satellite and Airbus to ponder a fleet of Moonlight satellites

Cloudflare's New CAPTCHA Replacement Needs More Work

Andrew Heinzman

May 17, 2021

www.reviewgeek.com

Popular CDN and DNS service provider Cloudflare wants to put an end to CAPTCHAs, claiming that humanity wastes 500 hours staring at the annoying "prove you're not a robot" tests every day. And while the company's proposed replacement isn't exactly perfect, it's a step in the right direction that could lay the groundwork for future authentication standards.

Cloudflare wants to kill CAPTCHAs so you never have to identify fire hydrants or traffic lights again

May 16, 2021

HT Tech

The company says it will save 500 human years that are wasted every single day by a total of 4.6 billion Internet users, while people "prove their humanity".

Cloudflare rallies the troops to fight off another so-called patent troll

Connie Loizos

April 26, 2021

TechCrunch

Nearly four years ago, we wrote about a battle between Cloudflare, the San Francisco-based internet security and performance company, and Blackbird Technologies, a firm that quickly amassed dozens of patents, then began using them to file dozens of patent infringement lawsuits against companies, including Cloudflare. The suit was typical in every way, except how Cloudflare responded to [...]

Wayfair, Cloudflare join growing group of international firms opening Toronto offices | BetaKit

Isabelle Kirkwood

April 21, 2021

BetaKit

Two global companies, e-commerce firm Wayfair and software company Cloudflare, have announced plans to open new offices in Toronto.

Top 10 security companies on AWS, according to security and IT pros

Belle Lin

April 10, 2021

Business Insider

With cloud security set to boom this year, these are the top security companies built on AWS -- but many are working with Google and Microsoft too.

'Browser Isolation' Takes On Entrenched Web Threats

Lily Hay Newman

March 23, 2021

Wired

Cloudflare says it's possible to build a version of the notoriously slow and buggy tool without compromising on speed.

150,000 security cameras hacked, exposing Tesla, prisons, hospitals

Bloomberg

March 10, 2021

@bsindia

Hackers gained access through a Super Admin account, allowing them to peer into the cameras

Hackers access security cameras inside Cloudflare, jails, and hospitals

Dan Goodin

March 10, 2021

Ars Technica

Cloud-based camera service Verkada exposed hardcoded password--and its customers.

Cloudflare introduces free digital waiting rooms for any organizations distributing COVID-19 vaccines

Darrell Etherington

January 22, 2021

TechCrunch

Web infrastructure company Cloudflare is releasing a new tool today that aims to provide a way for health agencies and organizations globally tasked with rolling out COVID-19 vaccines to maintain a fair, equitable and transparent digital queue - completely free of charge. The company's 'Project Fair Shot' initiative will make its new Cloudflare Waiting Room [...]

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