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From 2009, the company was venture-capital funded.
Cloudflare was launched at the TechCrunch Disrupt conference in September 2010.
In March 2013, it defended The Spamhaus Project from a DDoS attack that exceeded 300 Gbit/s.
In November 2014, it reported another massive DDoS attack with independent media sites targeted at 500 Gbit/s.
In 2017, Cloudflare created the Athenian Project to ensure free protection of online election infrastructures to local and state governments, as well as domestic and foreign political campaigns.
On August 15, 2019, Cloudflare submitted its S-1 filing for IPO on the New York Stock Exchange under the stock ticker NET. It opened for public trading on September 13, 2019 at $15 per share.
On September 6, 2019, Wikipedia was the victim of a DDoS attack.
The beta for macOS and Windows was announced on April 1, 2020.
In June 2020, it mitigated a DDoS attack that peaked at 754 million packets per second.
More than 1,000 users and organizations were participating in Project Galileo as of 2020.
In January 2021, the company established the Project Fair Shot initiative, a free tool that enables global health organizations to maintain a digital queue for COVID-19 vaccinations.
In August 2021, it announced it had in July stopped a DDoS attack three times larger than any they'd recorded.
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