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Cloudflare

The startup offers a unified edge platform that merges authoritative DNS with a global content delivery network, routing traffic through an anycast fabric of over 200 PoPs. It provides integrated DDoS mitigation, a configurable WAF, TLS 1.3 termination, and real‑time telemetry accessible via API and a single dashboard. The service is aimed at e‑commerce, SaaS, and media publishers that require low latency, high availability, and robust security.

San Francisco, United StatesFounded 201411610K+ followers
Updated 3 months ago

Funding

$120M raised to dateRaised to date based on public sources. This may differ from the amount the company actually raised and is based only on what is publicly available on the internet.

Funding rounds are not available yet.

Founders

Product

Problem

Websites increasingly suffer from latency, unreliable DNS resolution, and large‑scale distributed denial‑of‑service (DDoS) attacks, which can cause downtime, lost revenue, and degraded user experience. Many organizations lack a unified infrastructure that simultaneously accelerates content delivery and provides robust security at the network edge.

Target Audience

The service targets e‑commerce operators, SaaS providers, media publishers, and any online business that requires high availability, low latency, and protection against large‑scale network attacks.

Features

  • Anycast‑millisecond resolution and automatic failover across 200+ PoPs
  • Edge caching with configurable TTLs, Brotli/Gzip compression, and image optimization pipelines
  • Multi‑vector DDoS protection that combines network‑layer scrubbing, rate limiting, and behavioral anomaly detection
  • Built‑in WAF with OWASP Top 10 rule sets, custom rule engine, and bot management
  • TLS 1.3 termination, automatic certificate provisioning via ACME, and support for mutual TLS
  • Real‑time traffic telemetry, attack dashboards, and programmable alerts via webhook or Slack integration
  • RESTful API and Terraform provider for infrastructure‑as‑code deployment and policy automation
  • Seamless integration with major CDNs, load balancers, and cloud platforms through standard DNS and HTTP headers
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