Cloudflare

Cloudflare is a web performance and security company that provides online services to protect and accelerate websites online. Its online platforms include Cloudflare CDN that distributes content around the world to speed up websites, Cloudflare optimizer that enables web pages with ad servers and third-party widgets to download Snappy software on mobiles and computers, CloudFlare security that protects websites from a range of online threats including spam, SQL injection, and DDOS, Cloudflare analytics that gives insight into website’s traffic including threats and search engine crawlers, Keyless SSL that allows organizations to keep secure sockets layer (SSL) keys private, and Cloudflare applications that help its users install web applications on their websites.

Lee Holloway, Matthew Prince, and Michelle Zatlyn founded Cloudflare in 2009, with its headquarters in San Francisco in California.

Funding Rounds

Number of Funding Rounds

Total Funding Amount

9

$857.20M

Cloudflare has raised a total of $857.20M in funding over 2 rounds. Their latest funding was raised on Sep 12, 2019 from a IPO round.

Announced Date	Round	Money Raised	Number of Investors	Lead Investors	Post Valuation
Sep 12, 2019	IPO	$525M	—	—	—	Detail
Mar 12, 2019	Series E	$150M	1	Franklin Templeton Investments	—	Detail
Aug 21, 2017	Secondary Market	—	1	—	—	Detail
Sep 22, 2015	Series D	$110M	11	Fidelity	—	Detail
Dec 17, 2013	Series C	$50M	5	Union Square Ventures	—	Detail

Investors

Number of Lead Investors

Number of Investors

8

15

Cloudflare is funded by 15 investors. Franklin Templeton Investments and Fidelity are the most recent investors.

Investor Name	Lead Investor	Funding Round
Franklin Templeton Investments	Yes	Series E
Fidelity	Yes	Series D
National Science Foundation	Yes	Grant
Atlas Financial Group	Yes	Non-Equity Assistant
Employee Stock Option Fund	—	Secondary Market
Baidu	—	Series D
CapitalG	—	Series D
Google	—	Series D
Greenspring Associates	—	Series D
Microsoft Accelerator	—	Series D

Employee Profiles

Number of Employee Profiles

76

Cloudflare has 76 current employee profiles, including Employee James Snell

Employee

Executive

Employee

Employee

Employee

Acquisition

Cloudflare has acquired 9 organizations. Their most recent acquisition was StopTheHacker on Feb 24, 2014. They acquired StopTheHacker for 0.

Date Company Name	Industry	Acquisition Type	Price
Feb 24, 2014 StopTheHacker	Cyber Security	—	—	Detail
Jun 18, 2014 CryptoSeal	Security	acquihire	—	Detail
Dec 13, 2016 Eager	Developer Tools	acquisition	—	Detail
Nov 14, 2017 Neumob	Cloud Computing	acquisition	—	Detail
Jan 7, 2020 S2 Systems	Cyber Security	acquisition	—	Detail