Cloudinary

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Cloudinary Ltd.
Company type Private
Industry Technology
Founded2012
FounderItai Lahan (CEO)
Tal Lev-Ami (CTO)
Nadav Soferman (CPO)
Headquarters,
United States
Area served
Worldwide
ProductsImage and video management
Number of employees
325 (Oct 2021)
Website cloudinary.com

Cloudinary is a SaaS technology company headquartered in Santa Clara, California, with offices in Israel, England, Poland, and Singapore. The company provides cloud-based image and video management services. It enables users to upload, store, manage, manipulate, and deliver images and video for websites and apps. [1] [2]

History

Cloudinary was founded in 2011 in Israel [3] by Itai Lahan (CEO), Tal Lev-Ami (CTO), and Nadav Soferman (CPO). [4] Cloudinary grew organically, building a profitable SaaS service, without venture capital funding. [5] In 2015, the company received a strategic investment from Bessemer Venture Partners (BVP), [6] which was BVP's 100th investment in cloud companies. [7]

In 2014, Cloudinary announced fully integrated image processing add-ons leveraging technologies by Imagga, URL2PNG, Aspose, WebPurify and others. [8] In 2015, Cloudinary opened its U.S. headquarters in Palo Alto, California, and added video management to its services. [9] In 2019, the company moved to Santa Clara, California, and launched tools for responsive image breakpoint generation. [10]

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