Cloudflare
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Cloudflare, Inc. is an American content delivery network and DDoS mitigation company,[3] founded in 2009. It primarily acts as a reverse proxy between a website's visitor and the Cloudflare customer's hosting provider.[4][5] Its headquarters are in San Francisco, California.[3] According to The Hill, it is used by more than 20 percent of the entire Internet for its web security services.[6]
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Type | Public |
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Industry | information and communications technology |
Founded | July 2009[1] |
Founder | Lee Holloway Matthew Prince Michelle Zatlyn ![]() |
Headquarters | San Francisco, California, U.S. |
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Services | reverse proxy, edge computing, streaming media, identity management, virtual private network |
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Number of employees | 2,440 (2021) ![]() |
Subsidiaries | Area 1 Security |
Website | www |