Cloudinary Ltd.
Company typePrivate
IndustryTechnology
Founded2012
FounderItai Lahan (CEO)
Tal Lev-Ami (CTO)
Nadav Soferman (CPO)
Headquarters
Santa Clara, California
,
United States
Area served
Worldwide
ProductsImage and video management
Number of employees
325 (Oct 2021)
Websitecloudinary.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).[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]

References

  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. ^ "Bootstrapping a SaaS for Developers with Itai Lahan". softwareengineeringdaily.com. Software engineering daily. 30 March 2016.
  5. ^ "Cloudinary Raises Funding from Bessemer Venture Partners". www.finsmes.com. FINSMES. 20 December 2015.
  6. ^ 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.
  7. ^ "Cloudinary Expands One-Stop Shop for Cloud-Based Image Management; Announces New Image Processing Add-Ons". www.businesswire.com. Business Wire. 5 March 2014.
  8. ^ Dove, Jackie (5 May 2015). "Cloudinary adds video to its roster of services". thenextweb.com. The Next Web.
  9. ^ Soferman, Nadav (26 January 2016). "Responsive Image Breakpoints Generator, A New Open Source Tool". www.smashingmagazine.com. Smashing Magazine.
  10. ^ Cai, Kenrick. "The Cloud 100 Rising Stars 2019: Meet The 20 Up-And-Comers in Tech's Hottest Category". Forbes. Retrieved 2020-03-26.
  11. ^ "Cloudinary Launches Enhanced WordPress Plugin, Named a WordPress VIP Technology Partner". businesswire. 7 April 2020. Archived from the original on 2020-04-10. Retrieved 24 August 2020.
  12. ^ "Upload Images to Cloudinary With React JS". mridul.tech. 5 April 2023.
  13. ^ "Cloudinary Setup In Next.Js: A Step-By-Step". techayu.com. 19 Feb 2024.
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