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Cloudflare

San Francisco, California, United States

Cloudflare, Inc. (NYSE: NET) is a connectivity cloud company. It helps organizations make their employees, applications, and networks faster and more secure everywhere using a unified platform of cloud-native products and developer tools, powered by its global network.

Focus Areas
Web infrastructure, Content delivery (CDN), Internet security
Website
cloudflare.com

Tracked deals

9

9 tracked deals across 2020-2026.

Recent pace

4

4 tracked deals announced in the last 12 months.

Deal mix

Buyout

9 buyout

Cloudflare Acquisition Volume by Year

Last 5 years

Acquisition volume by year Annual acquisition counts for the last 5 years for Cloudflare. 1 2020 1 2022 3 2024 1 2025 ~4 est. 3 2026
Actual Full-year estimate

Supporting Data

Recent Transactions

  • Buyer
    Cloudflare
    Target
    VoidZero
    Industry
    Cloud & SaaS
    Type
    Buyout

    Cloudflare announced the acquisition of VoidZero, the open source-first company behind the JavaScript tooling ecosystem Vite (along with Vitest, Rolldown, and Oxc). VoidZero’s team—led by founder and CEO Evan You—will join Cloudflare’s Emerging Technology and Incubation (ETI) organization, with the tools remaining open source and vendor-agnostic under MIT licenses.

  • Buyer
    Cloudflare
    Target
    Human Native
    Location
    England, United Kingdom
    Type
    Buyout

    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.

  • Buyer
    Cloudflare
    Target
    The Astro Technology Company (Astro team)
    Industry
    Cloud & SaaS
    Location
    United States
    Type
    Buyout

    Cloudflare announced it has acquired The Astro Technology Company team, bringing the creators of the Astro JavaScript web framework into its connectivity cloud platform. Cloudflare said Astro will remain open source under its stewardship, and the deal is subject to customary closing conditions with terms not disclosed.

  • Buyer
    Cloudflare, Inc.
    Target
    Replicate
    Industry
    Cloud & SaaS
    Location
    United States
    Type
    Buyout

    Cloudflare agreed to acquire Replicate, an AI platform that helps developers deploy and run AI models. The deal is expected to close in the next two months and will expand Cloudflare Workers AI with model access, custom models/pipelines, and Replicate’s AI inference and container capabilities.

  • Buyer
    Cloudflare, Inc.
    Target
    BastionZero
    Industry
    Cybersecurity
    Type
    Buyout

    Cloudflare, Inc. has acquired BastionZero, a Zero Trust infrastructure access platform, to integrate BastionZero’s passwordless, just-in-time access controls into Cloudflare One. The deal expands Cloudflare’s SASE capabilities to provide Zero Trust access for servers, Kubernetes clusters, and databases, improving security, compliance, and remote developer productivity.

  • Buyer
    Cloudflare, Inc.
    Target
    Baselime
    Industry
    Software
    Location
    England, United Kingdom
    Type
    Buyout

    Cloudflare, Inc. has acquired Baselime, a cloud-native observability platform, to integrate serverless-focused monitoring and debugging capabilities into Cloudflare's developer platform. The acquisition brings Baselime's observability tooling and expertise into Cloudflare to improve visibility, debugging, and cost optimization for serverless applications.

  • Buyer
    Cloudflare
    Target
    Nefeli Networks
    Industry
    Cloud & SaaS
    Type
    Buyout

    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.

  • Buyer
    Cloudflare, Inc.
    Target
    Area 1 Security
    Industry
    Cybersecurity
    Location
    United States
    Type
    Buyout

    Cloudflare agreed to acquire Area 1 Security to integrate Area 1’s cloud-native email security and phishing protection into Cloudflare’s Zero Trust platform. The deal is valued at approximately $162 million, with 40–50% paid in Cloudflare Class A common stock and the remainder in cash, and was expected to close in early Q2 2022. Cloudflare later announced it completed the acquisition.

  • Buyer
    Cloudflare, Inc.
    Target
    S2 Systems Corporation
    Industry
    Cybersecurity
    Type
    Buyout

    Cloudflare, Inc. has acquired S2 Systems Corporation, a Kirkland-based developer of patented browser isolation technology, and will integrate S2's solution into Cloudflare Gateway as part of Cloudflare for Teams. The acquisition is intended to expand Cloudflare's security capabilities by enabling browser code execution in the cloud to protect endpoints without sacrificing performance.

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