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Company type | Private |
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Industry | Technology |
Founded | 2012 |
Founder | Itai Lahan (CEO) Tal Lev-Ami (CTO) Nadav Soferman (CPO) |
Headquarters | , United States |
Area served | Worldwide |
Products | Image and video management |
Number of employees | 325 (Oct 2021) |
Website | cloudinary |
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]
Cloudinary was founded in 2011 in Israel [3] by Itai Lahan (CEO), Tal Lev-Ami (CTO), and Nadav Soferman (CPO).[ citation needed ] Cloudinary grew organically, building a profitable SaaS service, without venture capital funding. [4] In 2015, the company received a strategic investment from Bessemer Venture Partners (BVP), [5] which was BVP's 100th investment in cloud companies. [6]
In 2014, Cloudinary announced fully integrated image processing add-ons leveraging technologies by Imagga, URL2PNG, Aspose, WebPurify and others. [7] In 2015, Cloudinary opened its U.S. headquarters in Palo Alto, California, and added video management to its services. [8] In 2019, the company moved to Santa Clara, California, and launched tools for responsive breakpoint generation. [9] Cloudinary was named among Forbes' The Cloud 100 Rising Stars 2019. [10]
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. [11]
Cloudinary also has Cloudinary React SDK, which is a library that provides a convenient way to integrate Cloudinary's media management capabilities into React applications. It offers a range of components and hooks that enable developers to easily upload, manipulate, and display images and videos from Cloudinary in their React applications. [12]
Easily save the Image to Cloudinary and image URLs to MongoDB database through API in react's framework Next Js. [13]
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