CloudFlare
- Customers3.5 MFY, 2020
- Revenue$656.4 MFY, 2021
- Market Capitalization$16.7 B2022-08-01
OverviewSuggest Edit
CloudFlare is a company operating a cloud platform that delivers network services to businesses. It provides an integrated cloud-based security solution to secure a range of platforms, including public cloud, private cloud, on-premise, software-as-a-service applications, and Internet of Things (IoT) devices. Its security products comprise Cloud Firewall, Bot Management, Distributed Denial of Service, Infrastructure Protection, IoT, SSL/TLS, Secure Origin Connection, and Rate Limiting. CloudFlare also offers performance solutions, which include content delivery, intelligent routing, and a mobile software development kit, as well as content, mobile, and image optimization. In addition, it provides reliability solutions comprising load balancing, anycast network, virtual backbone, and DNS Resolver. Additionally, the company offers Consumer DNS Resolver, a consumer application to browse the Internet; and Consumer virtual private network (VPN), a VPN for consumers designed to secure and accelerate traffic on mobile devices.
| Type | Public | |
| Founded | 2009 | |
| HQ | San Francisco, CA, US | Map |
| Website | cloudflare.com | |
| Employee Ratings | ||
| Overall Culture | B+ | More |
Key People/Management at CloudFlare
Matthew Prince
Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer
Lee Holloway
Co-Founder & Lead Engineer
Michelle Zatlyn
Co-Founder and COO
John Graham-Cumming
CTO
Susan Hobbs
Chief of Staff to the CEO and COO
Joe Sullivan
Chief Security Officer
CloudFlare Office Locations
CloudFlare has offices in San Francisco, Austin, Champaign, New York and in 14 other locations
San Francisco, CA, US (HQ)
101 Townsend St, San Francisco
Austin, TX, US
106 E. 6th Street Suite 350
Champaign, IL, US
M2 on Neil Street, 301 N Neil St #440
New York, NY, US
251 W 30th St 16th floor
San Jose, CA, US
10 Almaden Blvd #200
Washington, DC, US
Tower Building, 1401 K St NW
CloudFlare Financials and Metrics
CloudFlare Revenue
CloudFlare's revenue was reported to be $656.43 m in FY, 2021 which is a 52.3% increase from the previous period.
| USD | |
|---|---|
Revenue (Q1, 2022) | 212.2m |
Gross profit (Q1, 2022) | 165.1m |
Gross profit margin (Q1, 2022), % | 77.8% |
Net income (Q1, 2022) | (41.4m) |
EBIT (Q1, 2022) | (40.0m) |
Market capitalization (1-Aug-2022) | 16.7b |
Closing stock price (1-Aug-2022) | 51.2 |
Cash (31-Mar-2022) | 152.0m |
CloudFlare's current market capitalization is $16.7 b.
Annual
Annual
Annual
Quarterly
| USD | Q1, 2019 | Q2, 2019 | Q3, 2019 | Q1, 2020 | Q2, 2020 | Q3, 2020 | Q1, 2021 | Q2, 2021 | Q3, 2021 | Q1, 2022 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Net Income | (17.1m) | (36.8m) | (77.7m) | (32.7m) | (58.9m) | (85.3m) | (40.0m) | (75.5m) | (182.8m) | (41.4m) |
Depreciation and Amortization | 6.2m | 13.2m | 20.9m | 10.6m | 22.1m | 35.0m | 15.2m | 31.2m | 48.3m | 20.0m |
Accounts Payable | (2.6m) | 4.9m | (994.0k) | 1.5m | 4.3m | 4.6m | 6.2m | 6.8m | 5.8m | 1.9m |
Cash From Operating Activities | (9.7m) | (12.6m) | (30.3m) | (14.3m) | (10.3m) | (8.3m) | 23.5m | 30.9m | 24.0m | (35.5m) |
| USD | FY, 2018 |
|---|---|
Financial Leverage | 1.4 x |
CloudFlare Operating Metrics
CloudFlare's Customers was reported to be 3.5 m in FY, 2020.
CloudFlare Acquisitions / Subsidiaries
| Company Name | Date | Deal Size |
|---|---|---|
| Cloudflare Area 1 Security | February 23, 2022 | $162 m |
| Vectrix | February 11, 2022 | |
| Zaraz | December 08, 2021 | |
| Linc | December 22, 2020 | |
| Linc | December 22, 2020 | |
| S2 Systems | January 07, 2020 | $17.7 m |
| Neumob | November 14, 2017 | |
| Eager | December 13, 2016 | $1.7 m |
| CryptoSeal | June 18, 2014 | |
| StopTheHacker | February 24, 2014 |
CloudFlare Revenue Breakdown
CloudFlare revenue breakdown by business segment: 11.2% from Channel partners and 88.8% from Direct customers
CloudFlare revenue breakdown by geographic segment: 26.2% from Europe, Middle East, and Africa, 14.7% from Asia Pacific, 52.2% from United States and 6.9% from Other
CloudFlare Cybersecurity Score
CloudFlare Environment, Social & Governance (ESG) Ratings
CloudFlare Online and Social Media Presence
160.48k Twitter followers
CloudFlare has 160.48k Twitter Followers. The number of followers has increased 4.9% month over month and increased 7.9% quarter over quarter
CloudFlare's Trends
Twitter Engagement Stats for @cloudflare
43.3k
Tweets
5.9k
Following
160.5k
Followers
80
Tweets last 30 days
37.6
Avg. likes per Tweet
100%
Tweets with engagement
CloudFlare Company Culture
Overall Culture
B+
76/100
CEO Rating
A-
77/100
Compensation
C+
66/100
Diversity
A
84/100
CloudFlare News and Updates
July 29, 2022
Show HN: P2PCF – Low cost, low effort WebRTC signalling using Cloudflare workers
Comments
June 21, 2022
Cloudflare outage hit crypto exchanges FTX, Bitfinex and more
A Cloudflare outage on Tuesday knocked out numerous popular web services, including major crypto exchanges FTX, Bitfinex, and OKX, raising questions about the stability of centralized crypto platforms. The CEO of OKX, which saw $1.47 billion in trading volume in the past 24 hours, tweeted asking for…
June 21, 2022
Cloudflare outage knocks popular services offline
A Cloudflare outage, which began about 15 minutes ago, has hit several popular services including Discord, Omegle, DoorDash, Crunchyroll, Feedly, Zerodha, Medium.com, news outlet Register, Upstox and Social Blade. The internet infrastructure firm said it is investigating the “wide-spread” issue, but…
CloudFlare Blogs
July 26, 2022
When the window is not fully open, your TCP stack is doing more than you think
In this blog post I'll share my journey deep into the Linux networking stack, trying to understand the memory and window management of the receiving side of a TCP connection
July 19, 2022
Using Apache Kafka to process 1 trillion inter-service messages
We learnt a lot about Kafka on the way to 1 trillion messages, and built some interesting internal tools to ease adoption that will be explored in this blog post
July 18, 2022
A story about AF_XDP, network namespaces and a cookie
A crash in a development version of flowtrackd (the daemon that powers our Advanced TCP Protection) highlighted the fact that libxdp (and specifically the AF_XDP part) was not Linux network namespace aware. This blogpost describes the debugging journey to find the bug, as well as a fix.
July 15, 2022
Working in public — our docs-as-code approach
Besides following a docs-as-code approach, at Cloudflare we handle our documentation changes in a public repository. The contributions we get from the entire Cloudflare community help us make our documentation better every day
July 14, 2022
How the James Webb Telescope's cosmic pictures impacted the Internet
We show how the July 11-12 James Webb Telescope images that were revealed had an impact on DNS traffic in NASA and ESA websites, video and image hosting platforms, and news websites. The ‘cosmic’ results may be surprising
July 14, 2022
Mantis - the most powerful botnet to date
We named the botnet that launched the 26M rps (requests per second) DDoS attack "Mantis" as it is also like the Mantis shrimp, small but very powerful
CloudFlare Frequently Asked Questions
When was CloudFlare founded?
CloudFlare was founded in 2009.
Who are CloudFlare key executives?
CloudFlare's key executives are Matthew Prince, Lee Holloway and Michelle Zatlyn.
How many employees does CloudFlare have?
CloudFlare has 2,440 employees.
What is CloudFlare revenue?
Latest CloudFlare annual revenue is $656.4 m.
What is CloudFlare revenue per employee?
Latest CloudFlare revenue per employee is $269 k.
Who are CloudFlare competitors?
Competitors of CloudFlare include GoDaddy, HiQ International and Fastly.
Where is CloudFlare headquarters?
CloudFlare headquarters is located at 101 Townsend St, San Francisco, San Francisco.
Where are CloudFlare offices?
CloudFlare has offices in San Francisco, Austin, Champaign, New York and in 14 other locations.
How many offices does CloudFlare have?
CloudFlare has 20 offices.
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