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. Cloudinary is used by 1 million web and mobile application developers at more than 8,000 companies including
Condé Nast,
Dropbox,
Forbes,
Outbrain,
Taboola and
Answers.com.
has called Cloudinary the "gold standard" of
image management on the web.
History
Cloudinary was founded in 2011 in Israel by Itai Lahan (CEO), Tal Lev-Ami (CTO), and Nadav Soferman (CPO). Cloudinary grew organically, building a profitable SaaS service, without venture capital funding. In 2015, the company received a strategic investment from
Bessemer Venture Partners (BVP), which was BVP's 100th investment in cloud companies.
In 2014, Cloudinary announced fully integrated
image processing
An image is a visual representation of something. It can be two-dimensional, three-dimensional, or somehow otherwise feed into the visual system to convey information. An image can be an artifact, such as a photograph or other two-dimensiona ...
add-ons leveraging technologies by Imagga, URL2PNG, Aspose
WebPurifyand others.
In 2015, Cloudinary opened its U.S. headquarters in
Palo Alto, California, and added video management to its services.
In 2019, the company moved to
Santa Clara, California, and launched tools for responsive
breakpoint generation.
Cloudinary was named among Forbes' The Cloud 100 Rising Stars 2019.
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.
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