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Cloudflare
Connectivity cloud platform enhancing security, performance, control
At a glance
- Founded
- 2009
- Headquarters
- San Francisco, United States
- Listing
- IPO 2019
- Sector
- Cybersecurity
- Power Law
- Decacorn$10B+ valuation tierThoroughbred$100M+ revenue
Latest news
Press, funding announcements and product moves mentioning Cloudflare.
Investors
From Dealroom's funding and investor records, grouped by the round each investor first entered.
Series A2 investors entered at this stage
- PPPelion Venture Partners
Venrock
Series B and later9 investors entered at this stage
Qualcomm Ventures
M12
NEA
Greenspring Associates
Franklin Templeton Investments
Union Square Ventures
Baidu- MSMicrosoft for Startups
Fidelity Investments
Source: Dealroom Talent Intelligence.
Alumni founders
Former Cloudflare employees who went on to found companies, sorted by Dealroom signal score.
VAVeritus AgentEst. 2025
Evan J JohnsonUnited States
Frances LiuUnited States
KEKentikEst. 2014
Simon WijckmansUnited StatesGlobal footprint
across markets
Patents
179 active patent families included in this estimate.
A patent family groups patent filings for the same invention. Source: Dealroom · PatSnap.
Investments and acquisitions
Disclosed deals where Cloudflare was the backer or acquirer, 2014–2026. Toggle between venture rounds, M&A, or both. The map below is grouped by the target company's sector — the colored pill on each chip is the round type.
20 deals across Cloudflare's capital deployment.
Where the deals concentrate by sector, stage, and decade.
Where Cloudflare deploys vs peers
Each axis is a Dealroom topic tag — picked from the cluster's most-tagged themes. Values are normalized per axis: the peer with the highest tag-coverage on that axis sits at the edge, others scale relative to them. Toggle between M&A, venture, or both.
Cloudflare's portfolio, mapped.
Each chip is one company. Pill colour shows round type — green for Seed, blue for Series A, purple for B/C+, pink for late-stage, amber for M&A. Bigger sectors keep their full list behind “+ N more”.
Market sentiment
An AI-synthesised read of the highest-engagement posts about Cloudflare on X, ranked by likes and reposts, corporate channels excluded.
Reading the room on X — pulling top posts and synthesizing themes…
Source: X recent search ranked by engagement (likes + retweets) · Synthesis by Claude · Cached for 1 hour
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