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Cloudflare Acquires Outerbase

April 7, 2025

Software

Cloudflare has acquired developer-database startup Outerbase to enhance the developer database experience across Cloudflare Workers and related developer tools. Outerbase’s technology — already built on Cloudflare Workers — will be integrated into Durable Objects, D1, and the Agents SDK to simplify building database-backed and AI-enabled applications on Cloudflare’s network.

Cloudflare Acquires Nefeli Networks' Team and Technology

March 7, 2024

Cloud & SaaS

Cloudflare acquired the team and technology of Nefeli Networks to accelerate the launch of its Magic Cloud Networking product and expand into multicloud networking. The integration brings Nefeli's multicloud networking and orchestration capabilities into Cloudflare's connectivity cloud and Cloudflare One SASE platform to help customers discover, connect, and secure cloud environments.

OpenAI to Acquire Astral to Expand Codex Developer Tools

March 20, 2026

Software

OpenAI announced it has agreed to acquire Astral, a company behind widely used open-source Python developer tools such as uv, Ruff, and ty. The acquisition is intended to expand OpenAI’s Codex platform into a full software development lifecycle solution, integrating planning, codebase changes, tool execution, verification, and long-term maintenance.

Netlify Acquires Gatsby Inc.

February 1, 2023

Cloud & SaaS

Netlify has acquired Gatsby Inc., the company behind the open-source Gatsby framework and Gatsby Cloud, to accelerate adoption of composable web architectures and integrate Gatsby’s content hub and cloud innovations into the Netlify platform. The acquisition keeps the Gatsby framework open source and aims to provide developers and enterprises increased flexibility when building composable web experiences.

SoFi Completes Acquisition of Technisys

March 4, 2022

Cloud & SaaS

SoFi Technologies completed its acquisition of Technisys, a cloud-native, digital multi-product core banking platform. The deal strengthens SoFi’s Galileo fintech/cloud business by combining Galileo and Technisys into an end-to-end vertically integrated banking technology stack with integrated processing and card issuing.

Cloudflare Acquires Human Native

January 16, 2026

AI & Machine Learning

Cloudflare has acquired Human Native, a London-based AI data marketplace founded in 2024 that connects content creators and publishers with AI developers for dataset discovery, licensing and monetization. The acquisition (financial terms not disclosed) brings Human Native’s team and technology into Cloudflare’s product roadmap to help publishers monetize content and enable AI developers to find and license high-quality data.