Cloudinary

Cloudinary Ltd.
Company type	Private
Industry	Technology
Founded	2012
Founder	Itai Lahan (CEO); Tal Lev-Ami (CTO); Nadav Soferman (CPO)
Headquarters	Santa Clara, California, United States
Area served	Worldwide
Products	Image and video management
Number of employees	325 (Oct 2021)
Website	cloudinary.com

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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]

References

^ "Cloudinary Features Overview". cloudinary.com.
^ Delgado, Rick (5 September 2015). "4 Interesting Business Ideas Utilizing the Cloud". Tech.co. Tech Cocktail.
^ Pozin, Ilya (16 September 2015). "24 Israeli Companies You Should Watch For". Forbes.
^ "2 Million". Cloudinary. Retrieved 2024-08-30.
^ "Bootstrapping a SaaS for Developers with Itai Lahan". softwareengineeringdaily.com. Software engineering daily. 30 March 2016.
^ "Cloudinary Raises Funding from Bessemer Venture Partners". www.finsmes.com. FINSMES. 20 December 2015.
^ 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.
^ "Cloudinary Expands One-Stop Shop for Cloud-Based Image Management; Announces New Image Processing Add-Ons". www.businesswire.com. Business Wire. 5 March 2014.
^ Dove, Jackie (5 May 2015). "Cloudinary adds video to its roster of services". thenextweb.com. The Next Web.
^ Soferman, Nadav (26 January 2016). "Responsive Image Breakpoints Generator, A New Open Source Tool". www.smashingmagazine.com. Smashing Magazine.

[1] "Cloudinary Features Overview". cloudinary.com.

[2] Delgado, Rick (5 September 2015). "4 Interesting Business Ideas Utilizing the Cloud". Tech.co. Tech Cocktail.

[3] Pozin, Ilya (16 September 2015). "24 Israeli Companies You Should Watch For". Forbes.

[4] "2 Million". Cloudinary. Retrieved 2024-08-30.

[5] "Bootstrapping a SaaS for Developers with Itai Lahan". softwareengineeringdaily.com. Software engineering daily. 30 March 2016.

[6] "Cloudinary Raises Funding from Bessemer Venture Partners". www.finsmes.com. FINSMES. 20 December 2015.

[7] 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.

[:3-8] "Cloudinary Expands One-Stop Shop for Cloud-Based Image Management; Announces New Image Processing Add-Ons". www.businesswire.com. Business Wire. 5 March 2014.

[:0-9] Dove, Jackie (5 May 2015). "Cloudinary adds video to its roster of services". thenextweb.com. The Next Web.

[:2-10] Soferman, Nadav (26 January 2016). "Responsive Image Breakpoints Generator, A New Open Source Tool". www.smashingmagazine.com. Smashing Magazine.

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