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Cloudflare

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Cloud providerCybersecurity vendor
Cloudflare Inc.

An American company (founded 2009) providing a global edge network: CDN, security (DDoS, WAF, Zero Trust), DNS and the Workers developer platform with edge AI inference (Workers AI).

Founded2009United States
HQSan FranciscoUnited States
01 · About

Cloudflare

Founded 2009 · San Francisco, United States

Cloudflare, Inc. is an American technology company founded in 2009 by Matthew Prince, Michelle Zatlyn and Lee Holloway. It operates one of the world's largest global edge networks, through which a significant share of internet traffic flows. Cloudflare's core services are a content-delivery network (CDN) and website acceleration, security (DDoS protection, a WAF web application firewall, Zero Trust/SASE access), managed DNS and the public 1.1.1.1 resolver. For developers it offers the serverless Cloudflare Workers platform, and in AI - Workers AI, i.e. model inference run at the network edge, close to the user, plus services such as AI Gateway and Vectorize. Cloudflare is a public company listed on the NYSE under the symbol NET, headquartered in San Francisco. Its business model combines a free (freemium) plan with paid subscriptions and usage-based billing for businesses and developers.

  • Matthew Prince

    CEO and co-founder

    Co-founder and CEO of Cloudflare.

  • Michelle Zatlyn

    Co-founder (President/COO)

    Co-founder of Cloudflare, President/COO.

  • Lee Holloway

    Co-founder

    Co-founder of Cloudflare, lead architect of the early platform.

02 · What they do

Domain of activity

2 areas · 2 technologies · 3 industries
What they do2Areas
  • AI infrastructure
  • Edge AI
How they do it2Technologies
  • Edge AI
  • AI Security
Who for3Industries
  • Software & Technology
  • Cybersecurity
  • Telecommunications
03 · Geography

Global presence

HQ San Francisco · 2 regions
USAGlobal
04 · Metrics

Scale & funding

founded 2009
2009founded
about 3,900 (2024)employees
maturedevelopment stage
Publiclisted
activestatus
07 · Classification

Profile & metadata

4 classification · 2 external links

Classification

  • Statusactive
  • Development stagemature
  • Listed onYesNYSE: NET
  • Organization typeCloud provider+ Cybersecurity vendor
08 · Related content

Articles

2 articles