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2009 "Cloudflare was created in 2009 by Matthew Prince, Lee Holloway, and Michelle Zatlyn, who had previously worked on Project Honey Pot."[1][2][3]
2009 November Cloudflare raises $2.1 million in a Series A round from Pelion Venture Partners and Venrock."[4]
2010 September "Cloudflare was launched at the September 2010 TechCrunch Disrupt conference."[1][2]
2011 June "It received media attention in June 2011 for providing security services to the website of LulzSec, a black hat hacking group."[1][5]
2011 July Cloudflare raises $20 million in a Series B round from New Enterprise Associates, Pelion Venture Partners, Venrock.[4][6][7]
2011 "In 2011, Cloudflare provided DoS protection for the hacker group LulzSec. This garnered significant positive media attention at the time, as Cloudflare was a young and relatively unknown company."[1][5]
2012 June  !In June 2012, Cloudflare partnered with various web hosts, including HostPapa, to implement its "Railgun" technology: a web protocol intended to improve performance.![8][9]
2012 December "In December 2012, Cloudflare raised $50 million in a Series C round from New Enterprise Associates, Pelion Venture Partners, Venrock, Union Square Ventures, and Greenspring Associates."[10][11]
2013 March "In March 2013, Cloudflare defended The Spamhaus Project from a DDoS attack that exceeded 300 Gbit/s. Akamai's chief architect stated that at the time it was "the largest publicly announced DDoS attack in the history of the Internet"."[12][13]
2014 February "In February 2014, Cloudflare mitigated what was at the time the largest ever recorded DDoS attack, which peaked at 400 Gigabits per second against an undisclosed customer."[14]
2014 February Acquisition "In February 2014, Cloudflare acquired StopTheHacker, which offers malware detection, automatic malware removal, and reputation and blacklist monitoring."[15]
2014 February "In February 2014, Cloudflare mitigated what was at the time the largest ever recorded DDoS attack, which peaked at 400 Gigabits per second against an undisclosed customer."[16]
2014 November "In November 2014, Cloudflare reported another massive DDoS attack with independent media sites being targeted at 500 Gbit/s."[17]
2014 "In 2014, Cloudflare introduced an effort called Project Galileo in response to cyberattacks against vulnerable online targets, such as artists, activists, journalists, and human rights groups. Project Galileo provides such groups with free services to protect their websites. In 2019, Cloudflare announced that 600 users and organizations were participating in the project."[18]
2014 December "In December 2014, Cloudflare raised $110 million in a Series D round led by Fidelity Investments, with participation from CapitalG, Microsoft, Qualcomm, and Baidu."[19]
2014 "In 2014, Cloudflare introduced an effort called Project Galileo in response to cyberattacks against vulnerable online targets, such as artists, activists, journalists, and human rights groups. Project Galileo provides such groups with free services to protect their websites."[18]
2015 November "In November 2015, hacktivist group Anonymous discouraged the use of Cloudflare's services following the ISIL attacks in Paris and the renewed accusation that Cloudflare aids terrorists."[20]
2016 December Acquisition "In December 2016, Cloudflare acquired Eager, with the view of upgrading Cloudflare's Apps platform to allow for drag-and-drop installation of third-party apps onto Cloudflare-enabled sites."[21]
2017 January As of date Cloudflare provides DNS services to 12 million websites,[22] adding approximately 20,000 new customers every day.[23]
2017 Late Acquisition "In late 2017, Cloudflare acquired Neumob, a mobile VPN startup."[24]
2018 April 1 "On April 1, 2018, Cloudflare announced a 'privacy-first' consumer DNS service, hosted at IP addresses 1.1.1.1 and 1.0.0.1. Alternatively, the service can be accessed via IPv6 at 2606:4700:4700::1111 and 2606:4700:4700::1001."[25][26]
2018 November 1 "On November 11, 2018, Cloudflare announced a mobile version of their 1.1.1.1 service for iOS and Android."[27]
2019 March "In March 2019, Cloudflare raised $150 million in a Series E round led by Franklin Templeton Investments, with participation from New Enterprise Associates, Union Square Ventures, Venrock, Pelion Venture Partners, Greenspring Associates, CapitalG, Microsoft, Baidu, Qualcomm and Fidelity."[28]
2019 April 1 "On April 1, 2019, Cloudflare announced a new freemium Virtual Private Network service named Warp. The service would initially be available through the 1.1.1.1 mobile apps with a desktop app available later."[29]
2019 June 21 "On June 21, 2019, Cloudflare announced that users would be able to sync their computer's time securely with Cloudflare's Network Time Protocol (NTP) service. Cloudflare's time service will allow users to connect to their NTP server that supports Network Time Security (NTS), enabling users to obtain time in an authenticated manner."[30]
2019 August 15 "On August 15, 2019, Cloudflare submitted its S-1 filing for IPO on the New York Stock Exchange under the stock ticker NET."[31]
2019 "In 2014, Cloudflare introduced an effort called Project Galileo in response to cyberattacks against vulnerable online targets, such as artists, activists, journalists, and human rights groups. Project Galileo provides such groups with free services to protect their websites. In 2019, Cloudflare announced that 600 users and organizations were participating in the project."[18]
2019 "In 2019, Cloudflare announced a new domain registrar service that promised to offer low-cost wholesale pricing and easy ways to enable DNSSEC."

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  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Henderson, Nicole (June 17, 2011). "Cloudflare Gets an Unusual Endorsement from Hacker Group LulzSec". Webhost Industry Review. Archived from the original on September 9, 2017. Retrieved August 21, 2019. 
  2. 2.0 2.1 "Our Story". Cloudflare. Retrieved August 22, 2019. 
  3. "Cloudflare Beta". Project Honey Pot. Archived from the original on December 4, 2017. Retrieved August 22, 2019. 
  4. 4.0 4.1 "CloudFlare". Crunchbase. Retrieved August 22, 2019. 
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  6. Hesseldahl, Arik (July 12, 2011). "Web Security Start-Up Cloudflare Lands $20 Million Funding Round". AllThingsD. Retrieved August 22, 2019. 
  7. Milian, Mark (December 18, 2012). "Why a Fast-Growing Startup Tries to Keep Its Venture Funding Secret". Bloomblerg Technology. Bloomberg News. Retrieved August 22, 2019. 
  8. Clark, Jack (March 1, 2013). "Cloudflare's Railgun protocol gets buy-in from web giants". The Register. Retrieved October 8, 2015. 
  9. Lardinois, Frederic (February 26, 2013). "Cloudflare Partners With World's Leading Web Hosts To Implement Its Railgun Protocol, Speeds Up Load Times By Up To 143%". TechCrunch. Retrieved February 12, 2016. 
  10. Crook, Jordan (December 17, 2013). "Cloudflare Reveals $50M Round From Union Square Ventures". TechCrunch. Retrieved August 22, 2019. 
  11. Hickins, Michael (December 17, 2013). "Cloudflare Raised $50M, Ready to Spend". The Wall Street Journal. Retrieved August 22, 2019. 
  12. Storm, Darlene (March 27, 2013). "Biggest DDoS attack in history slows Internet, breaks record at 300 Gbps". Computerworld. Retrieved August 22, 2019. 
  13. Markoff, John; Perlroth, Nicole (March 26, 2013). "Online Dispute Becomes Internet-Snarling Attack". The New York Times. Retrieved August 22, 2019. 
  14. Schwartz, Mathew J. (February 11, 2014). "DDoS Attack Hits 400 Gbit/s, Breaks Record". Dark Reading. Retrieved August 22, 2019. 
  15. Lardinois, Frederic (February 24, 2014). "Cloudflare Acquires Anti-Malware Firm StopTheHacker". TechCrunch. Retrieved August 22, 2019. 
  16. Schwartz, Mathew J. (February 11, 2014). "DDoS Attack Hits 400 Gbit/s, Breaks Record". Dark Reading. Retrieved August 22, 2019. 
  17. Olson, Parmy (November 20, 2014). "The Largest Cyber Attack In History Has Been Hitting Hong Kong Sites". Forbes. Retrieved August 22, 2019. 
  18. 18.0 18.1 18.2 Newman, Lily Hay (June 12, 2019). "Cloudflare's Five-Year Project to Protect Nonprofits Online". Wired. ISSN 1059-1028. Retrieved August 5, 2019. 
  19. Miller, Ron (September 22, 2015). "Cloudflare Hints IPO Could Be Coming, But Not This Year". TechCrunch. Retrieved August 22, 2019. 
  20. Hern, Alex (November 19, 2015). "Web services firm Cloudflare accused by Anonymous of helping Isis". The Guardian. Retrieved November 19, 2015. 
  21. Yeung, Ken (December 13, 2016). "Cloudflare acquires app platform Eager, will sunset service in Q1 2017". VentureBeat. Retrieved December 28, 2016. 
  22. Arnfeld, Tom (April 11, 2017). "How we made our DNS stack 3x faster". The Cloudflare Blog. Retrieved August 22, 2019. 
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  24. Miller, Ron (November 14, 2017). "Cloudflare expands into mobile performance with Neumob acquisition". TechCrunch. Archived from the original on December 3, 2018. Retrieved April 2, 2019. 
  25. Prince, Matthew (April 1, 2018). "Anouncing 1.1.1.1: the fastest, privacy-first consumer DNS service". The Cloudflare Blog. Retrieved August 22, 2019. 
  26. Armasu, Lucian (April 2, 2018). "Cloudflare Launches Privacy-Focused 1.1.1.1 DNS Service". Tom's Hardware. Retrieved August 22, 2019. 
  27. Cimpanu, Catalin (November 11, 2018). "Cloudflare launches Android and iOS apps for its 1.1.1.1 service". ZDNet. Retrieved August 22, 2019. 
  28. Kawamoto, Dawn (March 12, 2019). "Cloudflare's $150 million funding round puts its IPO plans in question". San Francisco Business Times. Retrieved March 12, 2019.  Template:Subscription required
  29. Rambo, Guilherme (April 1, 2019). "Cloudflare announces Warp: a new free VPN service for iOS". 9to5Mac. Archived from the original on April 2, 2019. Retrieved April 2, 2019. 
  30. "Cloudflare Time Services". Cloudflare. Retrieved August 22, 2019. 
  31. Shieber, Jonathan (August 15, 2019). "Cloudflare files for initial public offering". TechCrunch. Retrieved August 22, 2019.