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Cloudflare

Cloudflare, Inc., is an American technology company headquartered in San Francisco, California, that provides a range of internet services, including content delivery network (CDN) services, cloud cybersecurity, DDoS mitigation, and ICANN-accredited domain registration. The company's services act primarily as a reverse proxy between website visitors and…

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Founded
July 26, 2009; 17 years ago (2009-07-26)
Founders
Matthew Prince · Lee Holloway · Michelle Zatlyn
Industry
Information and communications technology
Headquarters
San Francisco, California, U.S.
Brands
1.1.1.1
Key people
Matthew Prince (co-chair & CEO) · Michelle Zatlyn (co-chair & president) · Dane Knecht (CTO)

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Cloudflare

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related to November–December 2025 outage · 30
Cloudflare → Access, Affected, AI, Archive, Axios, Canva, ChatGPT, Cloudflare's, Cloudflare's VPN, DoorDash, During, Grindr, IKEA, Indeed, League, Legends, Letterboxd, LLM, London, Microsoft Copilot
related to Terrorism · 23
Cloudflare → Al-Shabaab, Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades, At, Cloudflare's, Doug Kramer, Foreign Affairs, Hamas, In, Iraq, ISIL, Islamic State, Kurdistan Workers' Party, Levant, Liberation, Palestine, PKK, Popular Front, Quds Brigades, State, Taliban
related to Response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine · 19
Cloudflare → After Russia, Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince, Cloudflare's Project Galileo, DDoS, Digital Transformation Mykhailo Fedorov, February, In, Indiscriminately, Minister, NGOs, Prince, Russia, Russia's, Russia-linked, Russian, The, Ukraine, Ukrainian, Ukrainian Vice Prime Minister
related to history · 17
Cloudflare → According, Holloway, In, It, July, Lee Holloway, Matthew Prince, Michelle Zatlyn, NET, New York Stock Exchange, On August, Prince, Project Honey Pot, S-1, September, Unspam Technologies, WebWall
related to DDoS mitigation · 12
Cloudflare → Akamai, DDoS, Gbit/s, Google, In March, Internet, June, LulzSec, Patrick Gilmore, Spamhaus, The Spamhaus Project, While
related to Internet security · 12
Cloudflare → Campaigns, CAPTCHA, Cybersecurity, DNS, In April, In September, Infrastructure Security Agency, JavaScript-based, The, Those, Through, Turnstile
related to Products · 12
Cloudflare → AMD EPYC, As, DNS, HTTP, HTTP/2, HTTP/2 Server Push, HTTPS, It, QUIC, SMTP, TCP, UDP
related to Universal SSL CAA issue · 12
Cloudflare → CAA, Cloudflare's, Consequently, CVE-2026-14440, David Osipov, DNS, In July, On, RFC, The CVE, TLS, Universal SSL
related to Intrusions · 10
Cloudflare → AT, Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince's, Cloudflare's, Google's, On June, Once, Prince's, They, Twitter, UGNazi
related to Other services · 10
Cloudflare → Apps, COVID-19, Event Management, In January, In March, Internet, Project Fair Shot, Software, Waiting Room, Webby People's Choice Award

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CloudflareBrands1.1.1.11.00infobox
CloudflareFoundedJuly 26, 2009; 17 years ago (2009-07-26)1.00infobox
CloudflareFoundersMatthew Prince1.00infobox
CloudflareFoundersLee Holloway1.00infobox
CloudflareFoundersMichelle Zatlyn1.00infobox
CloudflareHeadquartersSan Francisco, California, U.S.1.00infobox
CloudflareIndustryInformation and communications technology1.00infobox
CloudflareKey peopleMatthew Prince (co-chair & CEO)1.00infobox
CloudflareKey peopleMichelle Zatlyn (co-chair & president)1.00infobox
CloudflareKey peopleDane Knecht (CTO)1.00infobox
CloudflareNet income−US$102 million (2025)1.00infobox
CloudflareNumber of employees5,156 (2025)1.00infobox
CloudflareOperating income−US$207 million (2025)1.00infobox
CloudflareRevenueUS$2.168 billion (2025)1.00infobox
CloudflareServicesReverse proxy, edge computing, streaming media, identity management, virtual private network1.00infobox
CloudflareSubsidiariesArea 1 Security1.00infobox
CloudflareTotal assetsUS$6.036 billion (2025)1.00infobox
CloudflareTotal equityUS$1.459 billion (2025)1.00infobox
CloudflareTraded asNYSE: NET (Class A)1.00infobox
CloudflareTraded asRussell 1000 component1.00infobox
CloudflareTypePublic1.00infobox
CloudflareWebsitewww.cloudflare.com1.00infobox
Cloudflarefounded in20090.95text
Cloudflarefounded byMatthew Prince0.90text

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