Prior to 2020, we expected essentially every team member of Cloudflare to be present in one of our offices five days a week. That worked well for us and helped facilitate the launch of dozens of technologies as well as a community and culture that defined who we are.

Like every other team on the planet, the COVID pandemic forced us to revisit that approach. We used the time to think about what our offices could be, in a world where not every team member showed up every day of the week. While we decided we would be open to remote and hybrid work, we still felt like some of our best work was done in person together. The goal became building spaces that encouraged team members to be present.

Several hard hats and a few leases later, we’ve created a network of offices around the world designed to evolve with the way people work. These spaces aren’t just places to sit — they’re environments that empower people to do their best work — whether that means quiet focus, creative problem-solving, or lively collaboration. From a library tucked into a quiet zone in our waterfront Lisbon office, to the high-ceilinged collaboration areas in the heart of Austin, each office reflects our belief that great spaces support diverse working styles and help teams thrive together.

Our offices are meant to connect our teams, and we believe that by opening our doors to the wider community, we can foster even more innovation and help new companies collaborate better. Cloudflare has always been a hub for builders, and now we're making that commitment official by welcoming startups into our physical spaces.

Our spaces have served as hosts to community events since the earliest days of Cloudflare. We have brought together just about every group from hackathons to language meet-ups to university orientation sessions. Cloudflare exists to help build a better Internet and in many cases a better digital environment starts with relationships built in a real life environment.

One of the most common pieces of feedback we have received in the last few years after hosting these events is “I really miss connecting with people like this.” And we hear that most often from small teams in the earliest stages of their journey. In the last few years as the start-ups we support with our platform increasingly begin remote-first and only open dedicated spaces in later stages of their growth.

We know that building a company can be a lonely path. We have helped over the last several years by providing a robust free plan and a comprehensive start-up program, but we think we can do more.

Cloudflare’s network supports a significant percentage of the Internet and, as you would expect, the Internet follows the sun. More people use it during the daytime than at night, meaning our data center utilization peaks in specific times of the day. We take advantage of that pattern to run services that are less latency-sensitive in regions overnight.

Our physical locations follow a similar pattern. Utilization resembles a bell curve with Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays seeing a lot of traffic while Mondays and Fridays tend to be quieter. Like our CPUs at night, we think we can use that excess capacity to help build a better Internet by giving builders a space to congregate and helping our team connect with more of our users.

Beginning in January of 2026, we plan to make our office locations available to a capped number of external visitors as all-day coworking spaces on select days of each week. We will provide a registration process (more on that below) and set some ground rules. To start, we plan to expand this offering to San Francisco, Austin, London, and Lisbon.

When external visitors arrive, they’ll have access to our common spaces to bring together their teams or just get some work done by themselves. No mandatory talks or obligations. Just fantastic working spaces available to use at no cost.

We will provide more details in the next few weeks, but the general structure will be based on the following steps.

1. Enroll in the Cloudflare for Startups Program. Bonus if you are a Workers Launchpad participant or alumni.

2. Sit tight for now. We will email participating Startup Program customers first to participate with a form requesting office access.

3. Once the form is filled out, a member of our team will reach out after. If you want to get a head start, fill out the form here.

4. We plan to roll this out on a cohort basis. Once approved and all requirements are met, register your visit (and that of any additional team members) at least three business days prior to the date requested.

5. Respect our working spaces as you would your own.

We hope to expand to other locations in the future. Want to get to the front of the line? Sign up for our Startup program here today and we will reach out to Startup Program participants before we roll out the program.

Our startup programs remove those barriers, so founders can focus on what matters the most: building products, finding customers, and growing a business. Cloudflare for Startups launched in 2018 to provide enterprise-level application security and performance services to growing startups. As we built out our Developer Platform, we pivoted last year to offer founders up to $250,000 in cloud credits to build on our Developer Platform for up to one year.

During Birthday Week 2022, we announced our Cloudflare Workers Launchpad Program with an initial $1.25 billion in potential funding for startups building on Cloudflare Workers, made possible through partnerships with 26 leading venture capital (VC) firms. Within months, we expanded VC-backed funding to $2 billion.

Since 2022, we’ve welcomed 145 startups from 23 countries. These startups are solving problems across verticals such as AI and machine learning, developer tools, 3D design, cloud infrastructure, data tools, ad tech, media, logistics, finance, and other industries. We’re especially proud of the female founder representation in recent cohorts — with nearly a third of companies in Cohort #5 run by a female founder. 

Participants engaged in bootcamp sessions with Cloudflare leadership and product teams, covering key topics like product pricing and scaling sales. Startups received hands-on design support from our Solutions Architecture team, empowering these builders to build and scale their full-stack applications on the Cloudflare network. We facilitate countless introductions across the VC network, and are happy to see funding and M&A activity as these startups scale. Cloudflare also identified direct opportunities and acquired Nefeli Networks (Cohort #2) and Outerbase (Cohort #4).

Check out what Launchpad alumni have to say about their experience in the program:

Langbase (Cohort #3) Ship hyper-personalized AI apps to any LLM, any data, any developer in seconds

"For Langbase, the best part about Workers Launchpad was the incredible support from Cloudflare’s internal teams. It wasn’t just about access to infrastructure; it was the hands-on migration help, rapid feedback loops, and genuine partnership from engineers, product folks, and the broader Cloudflare community. That human support empowered us to iterate faster, solve hard problems, and truly feel like we were building something impactful together. 

Langbase has quickly become one of the most powerful serverless AI clouds for building and deploying AI agents. We process 700 TB of agent memory and 1.2 billion AI agent runs a month. Langbase is an agent lab, and we’ve also launched a coding agent called Command.new, an "agent of agents" that can take your prompts and turn them into production-ready agents by provisioning infrastructure and writing the agent's code in TypeScript.

My advice for anyone joining future Workers Launchpad cohorts is to use every resource offered. Engage deeply with the Cloudflare teams, ask for feedback early and often, and be open to sharing your challenges and wins, especially in the Discord community, which is super helpful. Cloudflare listens closely to participant feedback and genuinely wants to help startups succeed. Treat it as a two-way conversation and a collaborative growth opportunity. This mindset is what unlocks the real power of the program."

-Ahmad Awais, Founder & CEO of Langbase

Sherpo.io (Cohort #4) AI-first no-code platform to build and sell digital content

“Since joining Cohort #4, we’ve exited closed beta and expanded our product suite for content creators. Today, more than 3,000 creators worldwide power their digital product stores with Sherpo, while we continue building and scaling.

We learned as much from fellow startups as from Cloudflare during office hours and sessions, and we got to meet incredible people along the way, including Cloudflare’s CSO, Stephanie Cohen.

For anyone joining, attend every session, listen closely, and ask questions—they’re incredibly valuable. Building on Workers has given us a real advantage, and the team’s pace of innovation only compounds it.”

-Giacomo Di Pinto, Co-Founder & CEO of Sherpo.io

Tightknit AI (Cohort #4) Embedded community engagement platform built for SaaS

"Beyond the cloud credits that Launchpad provided us to play with every Cloudflare product, the most important aspect of the program we found was our ability to access (and even contribute) to the product roadmap. We were able to connect with product managers and solutions architects that have helped us take our work to the next level.

We've recently passed half a million users on the platform and have started to close not just the top Saas businesses in the world, but the top AI companies in the world, including Clay, Gamma, Lindy, beehiiv, Amplitude, Mixpanel, and so many more. The best part is that 100% of application logic is still powered by Cloudflare!

The biggest piece of advice for anyone starting the cohort is attend office hours as much as you can. I can't tell you how many times we were able to unblock ourselves or even provide real product feedback/bug reports. It was amazing to meet the rest of the cohort and solve problems together that ordinary Cloudflare developers just do not face. So my advice is don't miss the office hours. They were by far the most valuable part of our experience."

-Zach Hawtof, Co-Founder & CEO of Tightknit.ai

Render Better (Cohort #4) Increase e-commerce revenue by automatically optimizing your site speed

"My favorite part of the Launchpad was the community and the leaders who brought us together. The startup and product teams provided expert advice on both business and technical questions through meetings, 1-on-1s, and Discord. Many of them were former founders, so they understood what we were going through and helped us get what we needed. They were crucial in helping us get unstuck, whether we were using obscure Cloudflare features or needed connections to the right people.

I met a lot of great founders who are on the same journey and face the same struggles. Watching them grow was motivating and gave us a morale boost to keep up the fast pace a startup needs.

Since Launchpad, Render Better has scaled to 60 automated site speed optimizations, helping e-commerce sites convert 20% higher powered by Cloudflare Workers. Our growth accelerated after the program, and we're now optimizing traffic for some of the biggest e-commerce brands like PSD, Polywood, and Self-Portrait. Render Better now processes 5 billion requests each month, made possible by Cloudflare's global edge network and Workers platform.

Launchpad is truly just that: Cloudflare gives you the resources and attention to help you grow from an idea into something big. Build fast and take as much advantage of the fuel they give you to fly your startup rocket!"

-James Koshigoe, Founder & CEO of Render Better

Launchpad is growing into more than just a program. It is a community of builders and innovators showing what is possible with Cloudflare’s network behind them. With that foundation, we are excited to introduce the next group of entrepreneurs taking the stage in Cohort #6.

Introducing Cohort #6

Before introducing Cohort #6, we want to give one last shout out to Cohort #5. As Launchpad alumni, we cannot wait to see what you achieve. If you didn’t get a chance to check out Cohort #5’s demo day, watch the recording here.

With that, help us give a warm welcome to the participants of Workers Launchpad Cohort #6:

We’re excited to see what Cohort #6 accomplishes. Follow @CloudflareDev on X and join our Developer Discord to stay updated on their progress. If you’re a startup interested in joining Workers Launchpad, applications for Cohort #7 are now open.

Cloudflare recently announced AI agents, allowing developers to leverage Cloudflare to deploy agents to complete autonomous tasks. We’re already seeing some great examples of startups leveraging Cloudflare as their platform of choice to invest in building their agent infrastructure. Read on to see how a few up-and-coming startups are building their AI agent platforms, powered by Cloudflare.

Founded in 2023, Lamatic.ai empowers SaaS startups to seamlessly integrate intelligent AI agents into their products. Lamatic.ai simplifies the deployment of AI agents by offering a fully managed lifecycle with scalability and security in mind. SaaS providers have been leveraging Lamatic to replatform their AI workflows via a no-code visual builder to reduce technical debt and ship products faster. Designed for high availability, scalability, and low latency, Lamatic’s architecture enables developers to build AI-driven applications that remain performant under heavy load. After acquiring a high amount of users in a short amount of time on Product Hunt, Lamatic identified there was real interest to solve complex problems with AI Agents, and the team knew they needed to build a solution with scalability and performance in mind.

Cloudflare plays a key role in supporting Lamatic’s growth. Powered by Cloudflare Workers, Lamatic ensures requests process closer to end users, minimizing latency while offloading computational strain from centralized servers. In just a few months, Lamatic.ai has efficiently scaled to over three million serverless requests per month, supporting over 1,000 customers — all managed by a lean three-person team. 

Customers design their Agent Flows through a no-code visual builder, which generates an interoperable YAML configuration. Sensitive credentials such as API keys and model access tokens are securely encrypted and stored in Workers KV, ensuring they are only decrypted at runtime for enhanced security. All YAML configurations are then compiled into a Workers-compatible JavaScript bundle. When a project is deployed, Lamatic orchestrates critical components like sync jobs for scheduled data ETL operations and incoming webhooks to handle event-driven workflows via Cloudflare Queues. Once deployed, the project is fully operational as a Cloudflare Worker with an exposed API endpoint, allowing customers to integrate AI-powered automation directly into their applications with minimal friction.

To scale out their platform, Lamatic.ai built their architecture isolating serverless and AI logic on a per-customer basis. Rather than batching requests into a centralized cluster, Lamatic.ai distributes workloads across Cloudflare’s global network, ensuring each customer and endpoint is served by its own Worker executing dedicated logic. This per-customer deployment model — enabled by Workers for Platforms — allows Lamatic.ai to deliver customer-specific serverless functions at scale, and reduces technical overhead as they onboard additional customers. Each customer gets a dedicated Worker whose request and rate limits are enabled based on their level of subscription. 

Beyond request processing, Lamatic uses Cloudflare Workers KV as a distributed config store to ensure high availability and security. All values are encrypted at rest with AES-256-GCM and decrypted only at runtime, keeping operations both secure and low-latency. Tokens and user credentials are encrypted and stored in the database and KV. 

To further enhance performance, Cloudflare Queues plays a key role in orchestrating task completion. Lamatic uses Queues to offload work from Workers requests, and handle tasks such as webhooks and coordinating distributed processes, both essential for maintaining system consistency and reliability at scale. While Workers handle sync requests at point of execution, longer running jobs process via Queues. For example, during a scheduled ETL sync, new data records generated are stored as a message queue on Cloudflare Pub/Sub. A consumer Worker collects these messages and makes an API request to the pod using the Workers Queue. The consumer Worker consumes more messages as each queue is finished processing.

Another example of where this has been optimal is for managing AI workflows. Many AI workflows involve concurrent requests to multiple data sources, Queues streamlines data processing and efficiently feeds information into customers’ Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) workflows. This approach smooths out workload spikes, reduces bottlenecks, and ensures that AI agents can reliably aggregate and process data without delays.

Beyond this, Lamatic.ai offers Workers AI as one of the support inference providers that customers can use across their platform. Customers can choose to run one of the many open source models hosted on Workers AI, depending on their use case (chatbot, image generation, voice, etc.). Together, these layers solve the challenges of scaling AI agents by handling high volumes of data, maintaining low-latency responses, and ensuring robust security. With Cloudflare’s infrastructure as its backbone, Lamatic.ai has built a resilient and high-performing platform that meets the rigorous demands of modern AI applications, making it an ideal choice for startups embedding AI-driven features into their products.

Skyward AI is transforming compliance operations by leveraging Cloudflare’s serverless computing capabilities to build AI-driven compliance agents that streamline critical tasks like evidence collection, real-time risk analysis, and policy updates. Compliance teams in fintech, supply chain, and other highly regulated industries use these AI Agents to extract and organize evidence, provide real-time recommendations, and orchestrate policy and procedural updates automatically. By handling document parsing, risk monitoring, and policy enforcement, these AI Agents reduce the risk of human error while allowing compliance professionals to focus on high-value tasks.

Skyward has built an AI agents platform designed with a serverless-first approach, avoiding the constraints of centralized cloud computing. To achieve this, the company leverages Cloudflare’s Developer Platform to create and maintain a highly responsive and scalable infrastructure. Workers handle incoming requests like chat inputs, compliance checks, or authentication, and route them efficiently across multiple geographies. Skyward initially built their AI agents infrastructure using Durable Objects, Workflows and JavaScript-native RPC for AI coordination, but has recently transitioned to Cloudflare’s new AI agents framework. Given that agents provides a framework for building and orchestrating AI agents, the migration has helped Skyward abstract the need to manage Durable Objects manually, significantly reducing time spent on managing these tools. While this release is fairly recent, the transition has helped simplify the way that agents communicate, but it also preserved the benefits of their original design like data privacy, isolation, and concurrency management. This has also made it easier to provide real-time feedback and responses to their end users.

Skyward optimizes real-time compliance automation by achieving sub-100 ms response times for AI agent queries. Workloads are structured to minimize unnecessary network round-trips, and a sync-engine approach proactively preloads and pushes data to clients, delivering a highly responsive user experience. To proxy AI inference, Skyward uses AI Gateway to provide observability into usage, performance, and costs across multiple vendors, improving their AI operational efficiency. Leveraging Cloudflare’s serverless Developer Platform has allowed Skyward to simplify their architecture while supporting global availability, avoiding the need for Kubernetes clusters or complex locking mechanisms. The team also avoids the burden of managing regional deployments, as Cloudflare’s multi-region support ensures consistent performance worldwide without added operational complexity.

State management is a critical component to execute agentic workflows. Each compliance session runs within a dedicated Durable Object, which keeps relevant data close to the execution layer. This setup minimizes database round-trips and ensures that tasks like Anti-Money Laundering (AML) checks, Know Your Business (KYB) validation, and document processing remain efficient. Once a compliance session is complete, the system summarizes and stores the relevant information in Postgres and R2, optimizing memory usage without requiring persistent cloud infrastructure.

To balance low-latency operations with long-term storage, Skyward employs a multi-layered data management strategy. The Skyward team, using Hyperdrive, has been able to reduce query latency by nearly 50%, allowing compliance teams to receive immediate feedback. At the company's core, Skyward’s goal is to offer a platform that is "streamlined for compliance teams”. The team maintains that a speedy feedback loop ensures end customers get the data and responses needed to act. Whether there's one agent or hundreds of agents processing tasks in parallel, Hyperdrive ensures that database requests to assets like extensive company documentation (i.e. regulations, policies, procedures, internal documents), complex regulatory knowledge graphs, and on-demand context information for conversational workflows are all as performant as possible.

Durable Objects facilitate real-time session state, ensuring AI agents function smoothly without complex locking mechanisms. For larger compliance-related documents, such as legal PDFs and archived data, Cloudflare R2 provides long-term storage, ensuring only frequently accessed information remains readily available. This approach enhances performance while keeping storage management efficient and cost-effective.

Security and scalability remain priorities for compliance-focused AI applications. Skyward enforces strict access controls, ensuring that only authorized users can access development and production environments. Each AI session maintains an auditable log of key events, user actions, and approvals, supporting the ability to export these insights for compliance and legal requirements. Because each agent is deployed in its own instance and has its own database, Skyward ensures that there is a detailed record of every required user, agent interaction, and auditing requirements. On top of this, the ability to deploy and scale globally with Cloudflare’s network has allowed Skyward to maintain consistent, high-performance operations across multiple regions without extensive infrastructure overhead.

Looking ahead, Skyward plans to further enhance AI agent responsiveness by running select models directly on Cloudflare Workers AI, reducing reliance on external inference providers. The team plans to further integrate Workers for Platforms in an effort to better isolate customer data and workflows, giving end users greater control over their compliance automation. As Cloudflare continues to evolve its AI capabilities, Skyward aims to push the boundaries of distributed AI compliance solutions, making regulatory adherence more automated, scalable, and secure.

We’re inspired by how startups like Lamatic AI and Skyward AI are building their AI agent platforms on Cloudflare. This kind of innovation is why we’re proud to see so many startups trust Cloudflare for a scalable, reliable, and efficient foundation. 

We’re also thrilled to share that both Lamatic AI and Skyward AI have been invited to join Cloudflare’s upcoming Workers Launchpad Cohort #5. Speaking of Workers Launchpad, it’s been a few months since our last update — let’s take a look at what’s new.

The Workers Launchpad team is blown away by what customers are demonstrating on the Developer Platform. Members of Cohort #4 presented at our bi-annual Demo Day. We had customers demonstrate what they’re building across a multitude of industries, including (of course) AI / ML, developer tools, 3D design, cloud infrastructure, adtech, media, and beyond. It’s incredibly encouraging to see what all these amazing companies are building on the Cloudflare network, and we look forward to continuing to partner with them throughout their startup journey.

Following the Demo Day for Workers Launchpad Cohort #4, we’ve seen the largest influx of applications from startups across the globe eager to join Cohort #5. This next wave of founders is pushing the boundaries of what’s possible, building in areas like AI agents, developer tooling, MCP, media, and beyond. With each new cohort, we’re continually inspired by the caliber of founding teams, the bold ideas they bring to life, and the real-world problems they’re tackling with technology.

Help us give some love and a warm welcome to the participants of Cohort #5:

We can’t wait to share more about what Cohort #5 achieves. Be sure to follow @CloudflareDev on X and join our Developer Discord server to hear updates on the cohorts.

If you’re developing your application on our Developer Platform, we’d love to learn how Cloudflare is powering your journey. Please share more about what you’re building, and our team will be sure to review your submission. And if you’re a startup and interested in joining Workers Launchpad, feel free to apply for Cohort 6 — applications are now open!

Today, we’re excited to announce an expansion to that program: new credit tiers that better match startups at every stage of their journey. But before we dive into what’s new, let’s take a quick look at what the Startup Program is and why it exists.

Cloudflare for Startups provides credits to help early-stage companies build the next big idea on our platform. Startups accepted into the program receive credits valid for one year or until they’re fully used, whichever comes first.

Beyond credits, the program includes access to up to three domains with enterprise-level services, giving startups the same advanced tools we provide to large companies to protect and accelerate their most critical applications.

We know that building a startup is expensive, and Cloudflare is uniquely positioned to support the full-stack needs of modern applications. Our goal is simple: ensure that you have access to the best of Cloudflare’s global network, without the barriers of cost or availability.

Since launching the revamped credits system in September, we’ve learned a lot from the startups in our program, including what they’re building, what they need, and where they need more flexibility. One of the most common requests was more credit tier options.

That’s why we’re introducing new tiers that provide even more options to startups as they scale.

The Cloudflare for Startups Program now offers four credit tiers: 

These tiers are designed to offer simplicity and clarity by aligning with where you are in your growth journey. (You can check out eligibility criteria and apply to the Startup Program here). These tiers are still subject to the same Cloudflare for Startups Terms of Service. Credits are valid for up to one year or when all credits are consumed (whichever comes first).

We understand that each startup may have different needs depending on where they’re at in their journey. Some are just getting off the ground, others are scaling rapidly, and each has unique infrastructure needs. With this expansion, we’re reaffirming Cloudflare’s commitment to startups of all sizes, making it easier for you to access the right level of support and resources, exactly when you need them.

Whether you're launching your MVP or preparing for your next funding round, Cloudflare is here to help you grow.

The vast majority of Cloudflare products (including all products found on the pay-as-you-go plans) can be used on the Startup Program. Beyond going to the website to see what products are included, below are a few examples of what you can use your credits for:  

Build AI applications

Store your training data in R2, build AI-powered agents (via Agents SDK) that autonomously perform tasks with Durable Objects and Workers, or use one of over 50 models to run inference tasks on Cloudflare’s global network.  

Create immersive realtime experiences

Deliver live audio and video via our Realtime Kit, enhance the experience with an AI-powered chatbot running on Workers AI to transcribe the call, broadcast to large audiences with Stream.  

Build durable multi-step applications

Design and run long-lived, multi-step processes like onboarding flows, document processing, or order fulfillment. Use Workflows to coordinate logic across Workers, Durable Objects, Queues, and AI tasks. Easily handle retries, timeouts, and state management without complex orchestration infrastructure.

"From a modern design tool, you'd expect real-time collaborative features and would like to have resources as close to users as possible. Since betting on the Developer Platform architecture, Cloudflare has done more for us than any other vendor out there!" - Oleg Isonen (Founder & CEO)

“Cloudflare’s fusion of edge computing and AI empowers developers to deploy and utilize AI models with unprecedented efficiency and scale, marking a significant leap forward in how we build and interact with intelligent systems.” - Deepak Gupta (Co-founder & CEO)

"Each month Render Better optimizes billions of monthly requests for ecommerce visitors, delivering faster loading sites that make top brands millions more in revenue. We're able to scale up with Cloudflare's serverless workers, handling every request at the network edge within milliseconds, thanks to the rock solid, DX-friendly scope of the Developer Platform." -  James Koshigoe (Co-founder & CEO)

We can’t wait to see what you will build on Cloudflare. Apply here to take advantage of the Cloudflare for Startups Program.

Creating from the ground up often means spending countless hours piecing together the right development stack, navigating different pricing models, and managing growing costs — all of which can take your focus away from what truly matters: building your product and growing your business.

Hey! Dani Grant here, one of the first PMs at Cloudflare and co-founder of Jam.dev. Ten years ago (during 2014’s Birthday Week), Cloudflare launched Universal SSL, making SSL free on the Internet for the first time, and in one night doubling the size of the encrypted web.

I was a college student back then, and I immediately became enraptured by Cloudflare’s mission: helping build a better Internet. As part of this mission, Cloudflare has developed powerful tools typically accessible only to Internet giants, oftentimes offering them for free to developers and individuals alike. Heck yeah! I joined Cloudflare in January 2015, and 5 years after that, co-founded a developer tool company called Jam, inspired by the impact that I saw building tools for developers could have while at Cloudflare.

It’s now 10 years later, and a lot has changed –– “software ate the world” and it’s now powering all aspects of our lives, from health to finances to how we work. It’s more important than ever to empower every developer with the best tools available, because the faster we build software, the sooner people’s experiences improve.

Today we’re thrilled to announce the Dev Starter Pack, an alliance of like-minded dev tool companies giving away their services for free, or heavily discounting them for developers who want to start companies and build the future.

Not only does this stack include all the tools you need to build a startup, it also includes all the tools you need to build AI-powered features. We believe that the next wave of startups will be AI-native, as AI becomes as ubiquitous as the electricity that powers the servers.

We haven’t even scratched the surface of what’s possible with AI, and we hope this launch gets developers closer to solving the challenges of building non-deterministic software.

If you’re a software engineer, and you want to build a project or a company and need an off the shelf stack of dev tools to get started, go to devstarterpack.io to start using all of these tools.

Each provider is offering developers a heavily discounted or even free plan to get started building. You can redeem these services by either using the special code “devstarterpack” or selecting “Dev Starter Pack” while applying to relevant programs.

We welcome more tools to join the alliance — this is just the beginning. If you are building a developer tool and would like to include your product in the Dev Starter Pack, let us know here, so we can include you. 

We are very excited to see what you will build. Please share with us in Cloudflare’s Discord and community forum, so we can support you however it makes sense.

Software developers are changing the world, and we believe in providing support to help you make an even greater impact. If you’re looking for additional funding or support, check out Cloudflare’s Launchpad for developers turned founders building startups.

Melissa and Chris from the Cloudflare for Startups team here. Our team is blown away by what customers are demonstrating on the Developer Platform. Just a few weeks ago, our Workers Launchpad Cohort #3 wrapped up. On Demo Day, customers demoed their applications built on Cloudflare, spanning AI, dev tools, IaaS, observability, SaaS, media, and beyond. We’re incredibly proud of Cohort #3 participants, and we look forward to their continued success with Cloudflare.

Following Demo Day of Workers Launchpad Cohort #3, we’ve been excited to receive a surge of new applications from startups around the world. These startups are pushing the boundaries of innovation, particularly in areas like observability, PaaS, AI, automation, e-commerce, and other industries. Many startups that applied this go-around demonstrated that they’ve built some great applications on Cloudflare, and today, we’re excited to announce the accepted participants for our upcoming Workers Launchpad Cohort #4.

Let’s take a look at what Cohort #4 participants are building in their own words:

The Cloudflare team is ecstatic to work with the amazing participants of Cohort #4. If you want to follow along on Cohort #4’s journey, be sure to follow @CloudflareDev on X and join our Developer Discord server.

Are you a startup building on Cloudflare? Apply for Cohort #5!

You can see eligibility criteria and apply to the start-up program here. 

Credits can be applied to all Developer Platform products, as well as Argo and Cache Reserve. Moreover, we provide participants with up to three Enterprise-level domains, which includes CDN, DDoS, DNS, WAF, Zero Trust, and other security and performance products that a participant can enable for their website.

You can use credits for Cloudflare Developer Platform products, including those listed in the table below.

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We know that founders need all the help they can get when starting their businesses. Beyond the Developer Platform, you can also use the Startup Program for our speed and performance products. Getting customers where they need to go within milliseconds on your website or application is the difference between closing a sale or not. You can test your speed here and learn how to optimize your speed and performance here with solutions like: Images, Argo, and Early Hints.

But, wait, there’s more: beyond the Developer Platform products and speed tools, you can also use Cloudflare’s many security features through the Startup Program as well. These include Web Application Firewall (WAF), DDoS Alerts, bundled protection plans, and more. The Startup Program also includes Zero Trust solutions. Learn how others are securing their technology and tools with Cloudflare Zero Trust.

For more inspiration, check out our Built with Cloudflare site, which highlights what other startups are building. 

Eligibility criteria can be found here and include:

• Companies building a software-based product or service

• Founded within the last 5 years (2019-2024)

• Have between $50,000 - $5,000,000 in funding

  • Note that for startups who have not yet raised at least $50,000, there may be other opportunities for lower credit amounts. Please apply with the promo code “BOOTSTRAPPED” if you haven’t raised $50,000 yet, but are interested in the Cloudflare Startup Program

• Have a LinkedIn profile, valid website, and email address

• Bonus criteria that adds to your application: being part of an approved accelerator

We’re excited to see what you will build. Please share what you’re up to with us so that we can help you however it makes sense. If you’re actively using Cloudflare’s Developer Platform, we’d love to hear more about what you’re building and share it on our Built with Cloudflare site.

Are you a startup looking for additional support, resources, or access to funding? Apply for our Workers Launchpad Program! The program runs for a few months, and in addition to the Startup Program, participants get access to hands-on bootcamp sessions, Solutions Architect office hours, introductions to VCs, and the opportunity to present at Demo Day.

Founders and developers face enough challenges without having to worry about incurring egregious costs to test technology and start building in the earliest days. You have the world at your fingertips and should be empowered to build and create without limitations. Invest money in your innovation, not in the infrastructure and technology that supports it.

The Startup Program understands this founder experience deeply, as the team is made up of former founders. Cloudflare is committed to programs like this to empower founders building the next big thing. Offering up to $250,000 in credits will allow folks to leverage even more of what we have to offer: a developer experience that removes friction, saves money, and gets applications spun up in hours, not days. 

We want to support founders from everywhere on earth.

Be bold and keep building! Follow @CloudflareDev and join our Developer Discord server.

Are you a startup building on Cloudflare? Apply here!

With millions of developers around the world building on Cloudflare, we are constantly inspired by what you all are building with us. Every Developer Week, we’re excited to get your hands on new products and features that can help you be more productive, and creative, with what you’re building. But we know our job doesn’t end when we put new products and features in your hands during Developer Week. We also need to cultivate welcoming community spaces where you can come get help, share what you’re building, and meet other developers building with Cloudflare.

We’re excited to close out Developer Week by sharing updates on our Workers Launchpad program, our latest Developer Challenge, and the work we’re doing to ensure our community spaces – like our Discord and Community forums – are safe and inclusive for all developers.

In late 2022, we initiated the $2 billion Workers Launchpad Funding Program aimed at aiding the more than one million developers who use Cloudflare's Developer Platform. This initiative particularly benefits startups that are investing in building on Cloudflare to propel their business growth.

The Workers Launchpad Program offers a variety of resources to help builders scale faster and reach more customers. The program includes, but is not limited to:

• Fostering a community of like-minded founders

• Facilitating introductions to the Launchpad’s VC partner network of 40+ leading investors

• Company-building support and mentorship through virtual Founders Bootcamp sessions

• Organizing technical office hours with our engineers

• Access to preview upcoming Cloudflare products and Product Managers

• Culminating in a Demo Day, for participants to share their stories globally with investors and prospective customers.

So far, 50 amazing startups from 13 countries have successfully graduated from the Workers Launchpad program. We finished up Cohort #1 in March 2023, and Cohort #2 wrapped up August 2023.

Since the end of Cohort #2, we have received hundreds of new applications from startups across the globe. Startup applicants showcased incredible tools and software across a variety of industries, including AI, SaaS, Supply Chain, Media, Gaming, Hospitality, and Developer Productivity. While we were encouraged by this wave of applicants' ability to build amazing technology, there were a few that stood out that are leveraging Cloudflare’s Developer Suite to scale their business.

With that being said, we would like to introduce you to the 29 startups that have been chosen to participate in Cohort #3 of Workers Launchpad:

Below, you will find a brief summary of what problems these startups are looking to solve:

The Cloudflare team is looking forward to working with Cohort #3 participants and sharing what they are building on Cloudflare. To follow along with Cohort #3 of Workers Launchpad, follow @CloudflareDev and join our Developer Discord server.

Are you a startup and interested in joining Cohort #4? Apply here!

Now that Workers AI is GA, we’re excited to see what our community can build.  We’ve teamed up with our friends at DEV who will be running an AI Developer challenge, which officially launched on Wednesday, April 3, and runs until Sunday, April 14, 2024, when submissions close.

For this challenge, you will build a Workers AI application that makes use of AI task types from Cloudflare’s growing catalog of Open Models. Apps will be evaluated on innovation, creativity, and demonstration of underlying technology with prizes awarded by DEV for the best overall app, as well as projects leveraging multiple models and tasks. For more information and details on how to participate, including DEV’s rules and requirements, head over to the official challenge page.

Our community has been growing really fast over the past year, so fast that it’s becoming more difficult to welcome each new member that joins our Discord server every day, and Developer Week has always been one of the main drivers of this growth.

When you come into the Cloudflare developer community, it’s important to us that you’re entering a space that is safe and welcoming. Even though we already have rules for the server and community forums, we needed guidelines for our community programs, so that’s why we’ve created a new Code of Conduct that promotes inclusivity, respect, and will help us create a better community for everyone.

Do you want to be part of this and help us create a more inclusive and helpful community? Then please share your feedback and tell us what you would like to see improved in our community and our Discord server in this thread.