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Cloudflare

Cybersecurity · San Francisco, United States · Founded 2009 · IPO 2019 Decacorn

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Valuation

$74B

Market cap · Apr/2026

Revenue

$2.17B

Latest reported FY

EBITDA

$602M

Latest reported FY

Featured in Decacorn$10B+ valuation tier · Power Law dataset 2026 $10B+ revenueThoroughbred · Power Law outcome

Connectivity cloud platform enhancing security, performance, control

Investors

11 investors on Cloudflare's cap table

Sourced from Dealroom's funding history. Investor profile links are shown where available.

Series A 2 investors entered at this stage

Pelion Venture Partners

Venrock

Series B+ 9 investors entered at this stage

M12

Fidelity Investments

Franklin Templeton Investments

Qualcomm Ventures

Union Square Ventures

Baidu

NEA

Greenspring Associates

Microsoft for Startups

Cloudflare mafia

Startups founded by Cloudflare alumni

Former Cloudflare employees who went on to start their own companies. Sorted by Dealroom signal score.

ContentfulEst. 2013

Sebastian WeissGermany

Signal score88

KentikEst. 2014

IAIan ApplegateUnited States

Signal score87

RunRevealEst. 2023

Evan J JohnsonUnited States

Frances LiuUnited States

Signal score82

Client-side DevelopmentEst. 2024

SWSimon WijckmansUnited States

Signal score77

SimpleRoseEst. 2018

Xiaolin GongUnited States

Signal score72

The BeansEst. 2016

Matthieu TourneUnited States

Signal score72

CoalitionEst. 2017

Joshua MottaUnited States

Signal score69

ReplicateEst. 2019

Andreas JanssonUnited States

Signal score63

CanopyEst. 2022

MDMorgan DollardUnited States

Signal score63

JamEst. 2020

Mohd IrtefaUnited States

Signal score62

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Global footprint

Where Cloudflare has talent and traffic

AI talent share

0.8% of workforce is AI talent
(60 of 7,173 staff)

Core AI160.22%

Other AI440.61%

Non-AI workforce7,11399.16%

Workforce by country

🇺🇸 United States · San Francisco HQ

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Web traffic by country

45M monthly visits
across markets

🇺🇸 United States15.4%

🇨🇳 China10.5%

🇮🇳 India7.2%

🇧🇷 Brazil5%

🇮🇩 Indonesia4.8%

Top 5 markets shown

Patent intelligence

$132M patent portfolio · 193 active families

Estimated portfolio value

$132M

0.18% of market cap · 2.7× smaller than top peer Palo Alto Networks ($353M)

193 active patent families

Where Cloudflare innovates ServerDistributed computingReal-time computingData miningSecurity controls

Where Cloudflare concentrates vs peers

Each axis is a top-10 topic across Cloudflare and its closest peers. #1 = 100, #10 = 10, absent = 0.

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Source: Dealroom Patent Intelligence · Patsnap. Request a demo for the full per-sub-category breakdown, individual records, and quality-score history.

Capital deployed

Cloudflare's 20 investments and acquisitions.

Every disclosed deal where Cloudflare appeared as a backer or acquirer, 2014–2026. Toggle between venture rounds, M&A, or both. The map below is grouped by the target company's sector — the colored pill on each chip is the round type.

Portfolio analysis

20 deals across Cloudflare's capital deployment.

Where the deals concentrate by sector, stage, and decade.

By sectorCount

By stageCount

By periodCount

01 · Deployment strategy vs peers

Where Cloudflare deploys vs peers

Each axis is a Dealroom topic tag — picked from the cluster's most-tagged themes. Values are normalized per axis: the peer with the highest tag-coverage on that axis sits at the edge, others scale relative to them. Toggle between M&A, venture, or both.

Compare against

02 · Portfolio market map

Cloudflare's portfolio, mapped.

Each chip is one company. Pill colour shows round type — green for Seed, blue for Series A, purple for B/C+, pink for late-stage, amber for M&A. Bigger sectors keep their full list behind “+ N more”.

Stage

Period

20 of 20 deals

Sentiment on X

What X is saying about Cloudflare

An AI-synthesized read of the highest-engagement posts about Cloudflare on X over the past 7 days. We rank by likes & retweets, ignore corporate channels, and surface the themes that broke out from real people.

Reading the room on X — pulling top posts and synthesizing themes…

Source: X recent search ranked by engagement (likes + retweets) · Synthesis by Claude · Cached for 1 hour

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