- Specialization
Securityand 1 more specialization valuesLess
- Distributed Computing
- Business
Network Servicesand 2 more business valuesLess
- Compute Hosting
- Software Applications
- Market
- Cross Industry
- Ecosystem
- Not classified
- Customers
Enterprisesand 4 more customers valuesLess
- Developers
- Governments
- Nonprofits
- Small Businesses
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- Commercial Company
- Ecosystem
- Not classified
- Business
- Network Services, Compute Hosting, Software Applications
- Specialization
- Security, Distributed Computing
- Market
- Cross Industry
- Customers
- Enterprises, Developers, Governments, Nonprofits, Small Businesses
- Delivery models
- Managed Compute, Hosted Software
- Revenue models
- Subscription, Usage Based
- Listing status
- Not classified
- Latest equity round
- Series E Plus
- Reported funding amount
- Not classified
About
Cloudflare builds a unified connectivity-cloud platform combining networking, application performance, cybersecurity, developer tools, and threat protection. It sells to organizations ranging from large enterprises and brands to small businesses, nonprofits, governments, and developers, differentiating itself through a highly interconnected global network and unified cloud-native product platform.
Market
Cloudflare competes across internet infrastructure and application delivery, cybersecurity, Zero Trust/SASE, and developer and AI cloud services. It differentiates through a single global network and platform that combines security with AI infrastructure, emphasizing model-agnostic deployment, comprehensive AI-lifecycle protection, neutrality, and edge execution close to users rather than focusing on only one specialist service or hyperscale cloud layer.
Cloudflare serves organizations of all sizes and geographies, with particular relevance for digitally dependent enterprises and technology companies that need integrated network performance, cybersecurity, workforce security, and application infrastructure. Key buyers and users include CIOs, CISOs, CTOs, IT/security teams, and developers.
At a Glance
Problem
Cloudflare solves the problem of keeping internet-facing websites, applications, networks, and internal systems secure, available, and fast as attack surfaces expand. Organizations otherwise have to manage exposed origin infrastructure, DDoS and other cyber threats, latency, compliance requirements, and a growing collection of point products and network hardware. The economic pain is the combination of potential outage, lost trust, and slow digital experiences with the cost and operational complexity of defending them. The clearest use case is an online service under attack: Cloudflare can shield the origin, absorb malicious traffic, and continue serving legitimate users quickly.
Product / Service
Cloudflare delivers a cloud-based “connectivity cloud”: a unified edge platform combining networking, security, performance, reliability, and developer services. When a customer onboards a domain, Cloudflare can become its authoritative DNS provider and reverse proxy. Requests pass through Cloudflare’s global network, where content can be cached near users and traffic can be inspected and protected before reaching the origin; hiding the origin IP also makes targeted attacks harder. The platform includes CDN and DNS services, Zero Trust and SASE capabilities, application and network protection, and serverless development through Cloudflare Workers.
The delivery model replaces or consolidates parts of an organization’s traditional infrastructure and security stack with a globally distributed, software-defined service managed through a dashboard and APIs. Customers benefit from faster application delivery, stronger resilience, threat intelligence, simpler administration, and the ability to deploy code and security controls across the edge without provisioning individual hardware or origin capacity for every location.
Market
Cloudflare competes across overlapping markets rather than in one narrow category: content delivery and edge networking, DNS, web and application security, DDoS protection, Zero Trust/SASE, and developer-oriented edge computing. Its rivals vary by workload; Akamai and Fastly are prominent CDN and edge-delivery competitors, while Amazon Web Services—particularly CloudFront and the broader cloud platform—competes for delivery, infrastructure, and developer workloads. Cloudflare’s breadth positions it as a platform-consolidation alternative to assembling separate networking, security, and developer products.
Cloudflare is an established, revenue-generating public company rather than a pre-revenue startup. Fiscal 2025 revenue was $2.1679 billion, including $614.5 million in fourth-quarter revenue, up 34% year over year. At the end of 2025, 4,298 customers paid more than $100,000 annually, up 23% year over year; Cloudflare also says it serves millions of customers, proxies approximately 20% of the web, and blocks roughly 247 billion threats per day, indicating substantial network scale and embedded market traction.
Founders & Leadership
Funding History
Pelion Venture Partners, Venrock
New Enterprise Associates
Union Square Ventures
Fidelity Investments
Franklin Templeton Investments
Recent News
Cloudflare announced that the Deno team is joining the company, with the stated goal of simplifying self-hosting for Workers and Durable Objects. The announcement was posted on October 9, and coverage described it as an acquisition.
Cloudflare announced eight major updates to Cloudflare Observability on October 2, 2026. The update set was described as bringing logs, traces, analytics, and alerts.
Cloudflare announced K2 as serverless event streams. The announcement appeared on its blog on October 1, 2026.
Cloudflare announced Cloudflare OS, described as a managed workspace for a company’s agents. The Cloudflare blog listed the announcement on October 1, 2026.
Cloudflare and Deutsche Telekom announced a strategic partnership to strengthen the security and resilience of digital infrastructure for European businesses. Deutsche Telekom said it would add Cloudflare security and connectivity solutions to its enterprise portfolio.
Cloudflare announced an Accountable designation for AI crawlers and launched a Disallow AI Training setting. The setting lets website owners refuse AI training while remaining in search results.
Cloudflare announced a partnership with OpenAI using OpenAI Daybreak models, including GPT-5.6 Cyber, to power its new Vulnerability Discovery and Remediation service. The early-access service combines production traffic and security context with code investigation, edge protection, and human-reviewed patch generation for eligible enterprise customers.
Cloudflare launched Adaptive Intelligence, a bot-defense engine that continuously retrains its machine-learning system on live traffic. Its first component uses network-wide signals and disposable rules to make automated attacks more expensive to sustain.
xAI released Grok 4.6, a model focused on long-running agents and more ambitious interactive and visual work. It was made available through Grok Build, Cursor, the xAI API, and partners including OpenRouter, Vercel, and Cloudflare.
Cloudflare for Government achieved FedRAMP High certification and GovRAMP Moderate authorization. The certifications enable government, defense, education, and other highly regulated organizations to use Cloudflare services for sensitive workloads, while Cloudflare said it intends to pursue DoD Impact Level 4 authorization.
Signal selected Cloudflare to serve as an independent Key Transparency auditor for its private messaging service. Cloudflare will cryptographically verify updates to Signal’s Key Transparency log, helping users confirm that encryption keys are consistent without exposing phone numbers, usernames, public keys, or message contents.
Cloudflare announced a proposed private offering of $2.175 billion of convertible senior notes due 2031 to qualified institutional buyers. The company later announced pricing for the same principal amount, with proceeds intended for capped-call costs and general corporate purposes, including potential acquisitions and strategic transactions.
Cloudflare introduced its Ambassadors and Community Engineers programs and committed an additional $1 million over two years to sponsor and support open-source projects. The funding will provide grants to eligible Community Engineers, initially focusing on projects related to Cloudflare’s open-source ecosystem.
Cloudflare released its AEO Visibility Dashboard, giving website owners visibility into whether AI assistants cite, mention, or recommend their brands. The dashboard entered early access on the announcement date.
During Agents Week, Cloudflare launched a WebMCP developer preview, Kitesurf—an agent-focused browser running on Workers—and a next-generation stateless MCP implementation. It also announced improvements to AI Search, including simpler indexing, public search and MCP endpoints, custom domains, and a preview pricing model.
Cloudflare and Wiz announced a partnership focused on securing the global AI attack surface and addressing visibility gaps created by shadow AI.
Cloudflare expanded its Agent Cloud with infrastructure, security, and developer tools intended to move AI agents from experimental demos to production workloads. The announcement included general availability of Sandboxes for agents requiring a full operating system.
Cloudflare and JD Cloud announced a partnership to accelerate AI inference deployment and scaling for developers globally. The partnership was projected to reduce latency for AI inference workloads by up to 80%, supporting a global high-performance AI Cloud.
Active Roles
437Business Model
Cloudflare primarily earns recurring subscription revenue through self-serve Free, Pro, and Business plans, enterprise subscriptions, and contracted services. Enterprise agreements use flat-rate, usage-based, pooled-funds, and capped-capacity models, with contracts commonly combining a recurring base subscription with usage or per-seat charges.
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Key Investors
Franklin Templeton; Fidelity Investments; M12; Union Square Ventures; Venrock; Pelion Venture Partners; Baidu; Qualcomm Ventures; CapitalG; Greenspring Associates