Tech Company Financing Transactions

CloudFlare Funding Round

CloudFlare, operating out of San Francisco, secured $50 million in investment from Greenspring Global Partners, New Enterprise Associates and Pelion Venture Partners.

Transaction Overview

Company Name
Announced On
12/31/2012
Transaction Type
Venture Equity
Amount
$50,000,000
Round
Series C
Investors

Greenspring Global Partners (John Avirett)

New Enterprise Associates (Scott Sandell)

Pelion Venture Partners (Carl Ledbetter)

Union Square Ventures (Brad Burnham)

Venrock (Raymond Rothrock)

Proceeds Purpose
With the capital infusion from its series C round that closed in December 2012, CloudFlare quadrupled its network capacity across 23 global data centers and established an engineering office in London. The company plans to continue its rapid network expansion in 2014 with new data center locations coming soon in Latin America, the Middle East, Africa and China.

Company Information

Company Status
Publicly-held
Industry
Security
Mailing Address
101 Townsend St.
San Francisco, CA 94107
USA
Email Address
Overview
CloudFlare (NYSE: NET) is a free global CDN, DNS, DDoS protection & web security provider that can speed up and protect any site online.
Profile
CloudFlare LinkedIn Company Profile
Social Media
CloudFlare Company Twitter Account
Company News
CloudFlare News
Facebook
CloudFlare on Facebook
YouTube
CloudFlare on YouTube

Management Team

Title
Name
Email & Social
Chief Executive Officer
Matthew Prince
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Chief Operating Officer
Michelle Zatlyn
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Chief Technical Officer
John Graham-Cumming
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Co-Founder
Lee Holloway
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VP - Bus. Development
Sirisha Gorantla
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VP - Engineering
Thomas Lianza
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VP - General Counsel
Andria Jones
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VP - Product Management
Dane Knecht
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VP - Product Management
Isaac Specter
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VP - Sales
Chris Merritt
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