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. |
Key people | |
| Services | reverse proxy, edge computing, streaming media, identity management, virtual private network |
| Revenue |  US$656.4 million[2] (2021) |
 US$−127.7 million[2] (2021) | |
| US$−260.3 million[2] (2021) | |
| Total assets | US$2.4 billion[2] (2021) |
| Total equity | US$811.4 million[2] (2021) |
Number of employees | 2,440 (2021) |
| Subsidiaries | Area 1 Security |
| Website | www |