Announcing the Cloudflare Apps Platform and Developer Fund

Matthew Prince, co-founder of Cloudflare, shares the journey of his company from its inception six years ago with the aim to provide internet services as fast and secure as those offered by tech giants like Google, Facebook, and Microsoft. Today, Cloudflare runs one of the largest global networks with data centers in 115 cities worldwide. The company's core service delivers performance, security, availability, and insight to over six million users. Their goal has always been to democratize the internet, and they are taking another step towards this by launching the Cloudflare Apps Platform and the Cloudflare Developer Fund. Initially, they needed a collection of users for their service and finances to fund development. They found both in Project Honey Pot's Open Source community members who served as their initial alpha customers and investors like Venrock, Pelion Ventures, and NEA. The Cloudflare Apps Platform allows third parties to develop applications that can be delivered across Cloudflare's edge network to its millions of users. The Cloudflare Developer Fund is a $100 million venture capital fund for developers who create applications using the Cloudflare Apps Platform. This initiative aims to encourage developers to build impactful applications leveraging Cloudflare's global infrastructure and access to investors.