Cloudinary

Cloudinary is a SaaS technology company headquartered in Santa Clara, California, with an office in Israel. The company provides a cloud-based image and video management services. It enables users to upload, store, manage, manipulate, and deliver images and video for websites and apps.[2][3] Cloudinary is used by more than 550,000 web and mobile application developers at more than 6,000 companies including Condé Nast, Dropbox, Forbes, Outbrain, Taboola and Answers.com.[4][5][6] Inc. Magazine has called Cloudinary the "gold standard" of image management on the web.[5]

Cloudinary
TypePrivate
IndustryTechnology
Founded2012
FounderItai Lahan (CEO)
Tal Lev-Ami (CTO)
Nadav Soferman (CPO)
Headquarters
Santa Clara, California
,
United States
Area served
Worldwide
ProductsImage and video management
Number of employees
200 (March 2020)[1]
Websitecloudinary.com

History

Cloudinary was founded in 2011 in Israel[7] by Itai Lahan (CEO), Tal Lev-Ami (CTO), and Nadav Soferman (CPO).[8] Cloudinary grew organically, building a profitable SaaS service, without venture capital funding.[9] In 2015, the company received a strategic investment from Bessemer Venture Partners (BVP),[10] which was BVP's 100th investment in cloud companies.[11]

In 2014, Cloudinary announced fully integrated image processing add-ons leveraging technologies by Imagga, URL2PNG, Aspose, WebPurify and others.[12] In 2015, Cloudinary opened its U.S. headquarters in Palo Alto, California, and added video management to its services.[13] In 2019, the company moved to Santa Clara, California, and launched tools for responsive breakpoint generation.[14] Cloudinary was named among Forbes' The Cloud 100 Rising Stars 2019.[15]

On 7 April 2020, Cloudinary launched its upgraded WordPress plug-in for streamlined picture and video processing, and revealed its designation as a WordPress VIP Platform Partner, a select group of partners evaluated for consistency, protection, ease of use and size.[16]

References
  1. https://www.forbes.com/companies/cloudinary/#39c8fb9a7c30
  2. "Cloudinary Features Overview". cloudinary.com.
  3. Delgado, Rick (5 September 2015). "4 Interesting Business Ideas Utilizing the Cloud". Tech.co. Tech Cocktail.
  4. "Websites using Cloudinary". builtwith.com. BuiltWith.
  5. Pozin, Ilya (24 June 2015). "4 Breakthrough Companies Driving Innovation In The Cloud". Inc.com. Inc.
  6. Pozin, Ilya (16 April 2015). "3 Startups That Will Help Your Business Save Money". www.forbes.com. Forbes.
  7. Pozin, Ilya (16 September 2015). "24 Israeli Companies You Should Watch For". forbes.com. Forbes.
  8. "CrunchBase record". crunchbase.com.
  9. "Bootstrapping a SaaS for Developers with Itai Lahan". softwareengineeringdaily.com. Software engineering daily. 30 March 2016.
  10. "Cloudinary Raises Funding from Bessemer Venture Partners". www.finsmes.com. FINSMES. 20 December 2015.
  11. Fisher, Adam (16 December 2015). "20 Years of Betting Big on the Cloud: Cloudinary is Bessemer's 100th Cloud Investment". www.bvp.com. Bessemer Venture Partners. Archived from the original on 16 August 2016. Retrieved 13 July 2016.
  12. "Cloudinary Expands One-Stop Shop for Cloud-Based Image Management; Announces New Image Processing Add-Ons". www.businesswire.com. Business Wire. 5 March 2014.
  13. Dove, Jackie (5 May 2015). "Cloudinary adds video to its roster of services". thenextweb.com. The Next Web.
  14. Soferman, Nadav (26 January 2016). "Responsive Image Breakpoints Generator, A New Open Source Tool". www.smashingmagazine.com. Smashing Magazine.
  15. Cai, Kenrick. "The Cloud 100 Rising Stars 2019: Meet The 20 Up-And-Comers in Tech's Hottest Category". Forbes. Retrieved 2020-03-26.
  16. "Cloudinary Launches Enhanced WordPress Plugin, Named a WordPress VIP Technology Partner". businesswire. 7 April 2020. Retrieved 24 August 2020.
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