Cloudinary

Cloudinary is a SaaS company providing cloud media management services for websites and apps. The company is headquartered in San Jose, California with offices in Israel, England, Poland, and Singapore.

Cloudinary Ltd.

Company type	Private
Industry	Technology
Founded	2012
Founder	Itai Lahan (CEO) Tal Lev-Ami (CTO) Nadav Soferman (CPO)
Headquarters	Santa Clara, California , United States
Area served	Worldwide
Products	Image and video management
Number of employees	325 (Oct 2021)
Website	cloudinary.com

History

Cloudinary was founded in 2011 in Israel^[1] by Itai Lahan (CEO), Tal Lev-Ami (CTO), and Nadav Soferman (CPO).^[2] Cloudinary grew organically, building a profitable SaaS service, without venture capital funding.^[3] In 2015, the company received a strategic investment from Bessemer Venture Partners (BVP),^[4] which was BVP's 100th investment in cloud companies.^[5]

In 2014, Cloudinary announced fully integrated image processing add-ons leveraging technologies by Imagga, URL2PNG, Aspose, WebPurify and others.^[6] In 2015, Cloudinary opened its U.S. headquarters in Palo Alto, California, and added video management to its services.^[7] In 2019, the company moved to Santa Clara, California, and launched tools for responsive image breakpoint generation.^[8]