Tech Company Financing Transactions

CloudFlare Funding Round

CloudFlare, based in San Francisco, secured $20 million in investment from New Enterprise Associates, Pelion Venture Partners and Venrock.

Transaction Overview

Company Name
Announced On
7/12/2011
Transaction Type
Venture Equity
Amount
$20,000,000
Round
Series B
Investors

New Enterprise Associates (Lead Investor) (Scott Sandell)

Pelion Venture Partners (Carl Ledbetter)

Venrock (Raymond Rothrock)

Proceeds Purpose
The company will use the financing to continue to build its world-class team and expand its infrastructure to fulfill CloudFlare's goal of making the Internet faster and safer for everyone.

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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