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- Legal Name: Cloudflare, Inc.
- Website: www.cloudflare.com
- Founded: 2009
- Founder(s): Lee Holloway, Matthew Prince, Michelle Zatlyn
- Wikipedia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloudflare
- Stock Symbol: NYSE: XNYS:NET
What is Cloudflare?
Cloudflare that is a web performance and web security company is on a mission to help build a better Internet. The company brings businesses, non-profits, bloggers, and anyone together with an Internet presence boast faster, more secure websites and apps. More than 27 million Internet properties are on Cloudflare.
The company offers functionality like SSL and content distribution to every website on users’ network. Cloudflare uses CDN-like technology to handle all requests to a website. Therefore, the web performance ans securtiy company provides many capabilities including stop attacks directed at a website, dynamically modify content in order to improve performance, insert applications into web pages, provide rich analytics on all the requests to your website and more. It has benefits such as massive network scale, integrated security and performance, predictable pricing, ease of use, 24/7/365 enterprise support, developer friendly.
In 2009 summer, Michelle Zatlyn, Matthew Prince and Lee Holloway, the three co-founders worked on the Cloudflare prototype. In November of 2009, Cloudflare closed its Series A financing with Ray Rothrock, from Venrock, and Carl Ledbetter, from Pelion Venture Partners. In June 2010, Cloudflare launched a private beta to select members of the Project Honey Pot community. After the launch of Cloudflare official on September 27 2010, Cloudflare has launched dozens of products and hundreds of features over the course of 6 years, opened 6 offices across 3 countries, and brought 200 data centers online. Now, Cloudflare serves data from 200 cities in over 95 countries around the world. The company has offices in Asia Pacific, Europe, Middle East and Africa, USA.
On 13 September 2019, Cloudflare made its debut on the public market and became a publicly traded company. The company offers solutions under the performance, security, industries, partnerships, integrations categories’.
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