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Cloudflare

Web infrastructure, security and content delivery network company.

Public 🦄 Unicorn Founded 2009 San Francisco USA Developer Tools
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Founders

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Blake Darche
Co-founder
 L
Lee Holloway
Co-founder
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Matthew Prince
Co-founder & CEO
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Oren Falkowitz
Co-founder
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Phil Syme
Co-founder

Where its founders came from

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The companies and labs that produced Cloudflare’s founders.

Project Honey Pot Unspam Technologies

The Cloudflare diaspora

4 companies Open the full tree →

People who worked at or founded Cloudflare and went on to start their own companies.

Lineage of CloudflareCloudflareCloudflareBlake DarcheBlake DarcheArea 1 SecurityArea 1 SecurityMatthew PrinceMatthew PrinceOmacom FoundationOmacom FoundationOren FalkowitzOren FalkowitzArea 1 SecurityArea 1 SecurityPhil SymePhil SymeArea 1 SecurityArea 1 Security
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B 1 founded
Area 1 Security
M 1 founded
Omacom Foundation 2026
O 1 founded
Area 1 Security
P 1 founded
Area 1 Security

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