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. 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. Inc. Magazine has called Cloudinary the "gold standard" of image management on the web.

History

Cloudinary was founded in 2011 in Israel by Itai Lahan, Tal Lev-Ami, and Nadav Soferman. Cloudinary grew organically, building a profitable SaaS service, without venture capital funding. In 2015, the company received a strategic investment from Bessemer Venture Partners, which was BVP’s 100th investment in cloud companies.
In 2014, Cloudinary announced fully integrated image processing add-ons leveraging technologies by Imagga, URL2PNG, Aspose, and 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.