Avalanche and Team1 Launch $100K India Grant to Fuel Web3 Innovation Among Young Developers

Avalanche, a high performance blockchain platform announced today that it has collaborated with Team1, a global network of builders, developers, creatives, and community members to launch a pilot $100,000 Team1 India Mini Grant fund, aimed at empowering and accelerating the Web3 ecosystem in India. This initiative represents a significant commitment to fostering innovation and driving the next wave of digital advancements in the region.

Most of the developers entering the Web3 space are newcomers and under the age of 27. Young developers lose passion due to insufficient funding opportunities and lack of quality mentorship. Avalanche and Team1 have created a dedicated team to explore potential Web3 projects and startups to disburse the grants promptly and work closely with the project team to help them scale their operations. The Avalanche team will monitor the team’s progress and provide access to Avalanche tools, community network, collaboration opportunities, and hackathons. The potential projects and startups will be selected through an In-person demo that will take place in multiple cities across the country.

Commenting on the development Devika Mittal, Regional Head at Ava Labs, said “India is rapidly gaining reputation as a major hub for Web3 developers globally and is projected to be the largest by 2028. Currently, there are 1200 Web3 startups in India and we aim to significantly increase this number by 2026 through our #Team1MiniGrants fund. Our initiative will fill the funding gap for web3 projects and create a level playing field for talented developers. In particular, we hope to see young developers, both men and women, applying to the fund.”

Commenting on the development, Eamonn Deane, Head of Ambassador Program at Ava Labs and Team1, said “India, being one of the tech superpowers of the world with strong digital infrastructure, provides a strong foundation for the growth and adoption of blockchain technology. With active participation from the government and big private enterprises, we see a huge growth potential for Web3-related products and services. Apart from metros, we aim to include projects from Tier 2 and Tier 3 cities due to the fast-paced innovation in smaller Indian towns and cities”.

Avalanche is aggressively betting on India to create one of the world’s largest Web3 ecosystems. The large talent pool, business-friendly policies from the government, and robust digital infrastructure make India a highly lucrative Web3 destination. Avalanche recently collaborated with Indian state governments to execute the tokenization of land assets in India and unlock the economic potential of idle land parcels across the country. The recent collaboration between Avalanche and global digital exchange, Bitget is also aimed at boosting the Web3 ecosystem in India.

This strategic initiative underscores Avalanche’s commitment to driving innovation and growth within the region, empowering developers and entrepreneurs to push the boundaries of what’s possible in the blockchain space.

To apply for the grants, visit https://grants.team1.network/


About Avalanche Blockchain Network

Avalanche is a high-performance blockchain platform designed for builders who need to scale. Engineered with a revolutionary three-part Layer 1 (L1) architecture, Avalanche is anchored by its Avalanche Consensus Mechanism, ensuring near-instant finality for transactions. The platform also features an open-source Layer 0 (L0) framework, enabling the seamless creation of interoperable Layer 1 blockchains with high throughput on both public and private networks. Supported by a global community of developers and validators, Avalanche offers a fast, low-cost environment for building the next generation of decentralized applications (dApps). With its unique blend of speed, flexibility, and scalability, Avalanche is the preferred choice for innovators pushing the boundaries of blockchain technology.

For more information, visit avax.network.

About Team1:

Team1 is a global network of builders, developers, creatives, gamers & community members who grow Avalanche. After starting just one year ago with the first cohort, Team1 has since organized over 600 community events, collaborated with 80+ universities and has members in 51 countries. For more info and to join Team1, visit https://www.team1.network/

Apple Explored Developer-Focused Cloud Platform

For years, Apple quietly watched as Amazon, Microsoft, and Google carved up the cloud computing market. While its own strength lay in tightly integrated consumer devices, something began brewing behind the scenes in Cupertino—an idea that Apple, too, could build a developer-focused cloud platform, one built not on commodity hardware, but on the very silicon that powered iPhones and Macs.

At the heart of this vision was Apple Silicon. The M-series chips had already redefined what portable computing could be. But Apple wondered: what if these same chips fueled the backend of app development? Imagine developers renting servers built around the M1 or M2 to run simulations, train machine learning models, or handle compute-heavy tasks far beyond the capabilities of their personal machines. It wouldn’t just be efficient—it would be uniquely Apple.

The concept didn’t stop there. Apple’s cloud wouldn’t be a fragmented ecosystem of services; it would be a seamless extension of the developer experience. From coding in Xcode to deploying via iCloud integrations, the dream was to create a vertical pipeline where everything—from code to performance metrics—felt native. Even AI processing, which Apple traditionally kept on-device for privacy reasons, could shift to this developer cloud under Apple’s strict security ethos.

Michael Abbott, a seasoned cloud executive, was reportedly steering this ambition until his departure in 2023. Even after he left, whispers continued into 2024, hinting that the project hadn't been entirely shelved—just waiting, perhaps, for the right moment to resurface.

For developers loyal to the Apple ecosystem, the idea was tantalizing. It could have reshaped workflows, lowered barriers to entry, and made building powerful apps more accessible. But like many Apple innovations, it remains under wraps—half-realized, unannounced, and still cloaked in the mystery that defines so much of the company’s most daring ideas.

Nokia and Google Cloud Collaborate to Help Developers Worldwide Create 5G Applications Faster with Telco APIs

Nokia has expanded its collaboration with Google Cloud to empower developers worldwide in creating innovative 5G enterprise and consumer applications more efficiently.

This move enhances the developer experience by leveraging Google Cloud data and generative AI solutions, including Vertex AI and Gemini 1.5 Pro.

Nokia's "Network as Code" platform, which brings together telco networks, systems integrators, and software developers, will now run on Google Cloud. This platform accelerates the development of software applications that can utilize 5G and 4G network capabilities.

By leveraging Google Cloud's Vertex AI and Gemini 1.5 Pro, developers can easily consume AI in their applications and improve productivity with coding assistance agents.

The collaboration aims to target industry-specific use cases, starting with healthcare. This will help telehealth companies provide better and safer customer experiences.

Google Cloud's expansive developer community will benefit from standardized 5G network capabilities worldwide, exposed through Nokia's Network as Code platform. This provides technical tools for creating new applications.

Overall, this collaboration enhances the developer experience and promotes faster 5G application development across various sectors.

Nokia’s Network as Code platform with developer portal provides developers with software development kits (SDKs); network API documentation, a “sandbox” to create software code for use case simulation and testing; and code “snippets” that can be included in building new applications. The platform is based on a revenue share model between developers, operators, and Nokia.

Since its launch in September 2023, Nokia has signed collaboration agreements with 13 network operators and ecosystem partners in Europe, North America, and South America.

Satya Nadella Highlights Key Role of India’s Developer Community in Global AI Innovation

Microsoft chairman and chief executive officer Satya Nadella, on Thursday, highlighted the pivotal role of India’s developer community in building cutting-edge products and solutions that solve challenges for the nation and can be deployed around the world.

During his address to 1,100 developers and technology leaders at the Microsoft AI Tour in Bengaluru today, Nadella spoke about the impact Indian developers are making in accelerating AI innovation globally.

India is the fastest-growing market on GitHub, a Microsoft-owned software collaboration and innovation platform, with 13.2 million developers using the platform. It is expected to overtake the US as the largest developer community on GitHub by 2027. India also has the second-highest number of generative AI projects on GitHub after the United States.

“This next generation of AI is changing how and what developers build everywhere, including in India,” said Satya Nadella, chairman and CEO, Microsoft. “It’s fantastic to see how India’s developer community is applying our technology and tools to build the future for India and the world.”

Nadella also said that Microsoft will expand its Code; Without Barriers program to India this month, as the company aims to democratize access to tech skills nationwide. The program was launched in 2021 across nine Asia Pacific (APAC) countries to help close the gender gap in the region’s fast-growing cloud, AI, and digital technology sectors. The program provides support, training, and networking opportunities for female developers and coders, and those in other technical roles to contribute to inclusive economic growth, encourage innovation, and reflect the region’s social makeup. Through Code; Without Barriers, Microsoft will provide skilling and certification to 75,000 women developers in India in 2024.

The Code; Without Barriers expansion builds on other recent developer and skilling initiatives by Microsoft in India.

On Wednesday, Nadella announced Microsoft’s new skilling investment in India to empower people and organizations to thrive in the AI era. The investment will see Microsoft provide 2 million people in India with AI skilling opportunities by 2025 through its ADVANTA(I)GE INDIA initiative.

In early last month, Microsoft enabled 100,000 developers to advance their careers in AI through its AI Odyssey initiative. The initiative allowed participants to take the first step towards becoming a subject matter expert in AI by learning new skills and earning Microsoft credentials. Microsoft is expanding the AI Odyssey program to other Asian countries, including Australia, New Zealand, Japan, Indonesia, Korea, China, Vietnam, and Thailand, after receiving an overwhelming response from India. The program will also welcome Indian developers who could not participate in the AI Odyssey challenge in January 2024. Phase 2 of the AI Odyssey will run from February 8th, 2024, to June 25th, 2024, aiming to reach another 150,000 developers across Asia.

In November 2022, Microsoft India launched the Azure Society of Excellence (ASE) in collaboration with premier technology institutes like IITs, IIMs and BITS Pilani to work with startups and their incubation cells. The exclusive program provides technological support and mentorship to startups, helping them to become future-ready. Microsoft has successfully onboarded over 1700 Indian startups to the Microsoft Founders Hub through the ASE. It has also signed memorandums of understanding with 10 leading incubators across Indian technology and management institutes.

Microsoft India engages with a community of 2 million professional and student developers across 100 cities in India to help them acquire skills and prepare for jobs. This is done with the help of community leaders, Microsoft Valuable professionals (MVP’s) and Azure industry experts along with partnerships with over 100 academic institutions across the country.

At the Microsoft AI Tour, Bengaluru, developers from nonprofit organizations, student developers, and large enterprises showcased how Microsoft technologies have accelerated their AI adoption and empowered them to innovate. These included the following:

• Sarvam AI provides large language models (LLMs) that offer Indic language support. The generative AI startup aims to make the development, deployment, and distribution of generative AI apps in India more robust, better performing, and cheaper.
• Shiksha copilot, developed by the Sikshana Foundation and Microsoft Research India, aims to improve learning outcomes and empower teachers to create comprehensive, age-appropriate lesson plans with personalized learning experiences. Powered by Azure OpenAI models, it helps teachers develop a complete lesson plan with engaging content in 60 to 90 seconds instead of 60 to 90 minutes. It is currently deployed in about 30 rural and urban schools in Bengaluru, India, and the Sikshana Foundation is working with Microsoft to deploy it at scale.
• The Open Healthcare Network has helped manage 581 hospitals, oversee 20,712 hospital beds, attend to 362,349 patients, and facilitate over 500 million consultations in India with the support of 1,884 health workers. GitHub Copilot is helping the project grow rapidly and address the needs of the country’s healthcare system.
• Persistent Systems’ Intelligent Digital Engineering Platform, powered by Azure AI, enables large enterprises across various sectors in India to adopt and integrate LLM technology. By leveraging established Azure patterns for observability, data governance, and model registry, the platform provides a comprehensive environment for developing LLM applications.

Click here to learn more about Satya Nadella’s visit and how Microsoft is empowering organizations in India with AI.

SAP Launches Generative AI-based Code Development with Joule

SAP Unveils Innovations in Generative AI Application Development and Vector Database Capabilities as Well as New Learning Opportunities for Developers in the Era of AI

At the SAP TechEd event 2023, which is happening from 2nd to 3rd November in Bengaluru, SAP SE (NYSE: SAP) announced a comprehensive series of generative AI capabilities and advancements aimed at empowering developers of all skill levels to supercharge their businesses in the age of AI.

“Today’s dynamic technology and business landscape means every developer needs to be an AI developer,” said Juergen Mueller, Chief Technology Officer and member of the Executive Board of SAP SE. “The innovations we’re launching at SAP TechEd, from AI-infused pro-code tools to a one-stop shop to create generative AI extensions and applications on SAP Business Technology Platform, support the developers at the heart of the AI revolution and provide them with resources they need to transform the way businesses run.”

SAP is launching the SAP Build Code solutions, which streamline cooperation with business experts who use the low-code SAP Build solutions launched at SAP TechEd in 2022. Uniquely built for SAP applications and the SAP ecosystem, SAP Build Code solutions offer AI-powered productivity tools for developers and are optimized for Java and JavaScript development. SAP Build Code also draws on the power of SAP’s new generative AI copilot Joule – the copilot that truly understands business – to further boost productivity, embedding code generation capabilities for data model, application logic and test script creation.

SAP Build Code includes pre-built integrations, APIs, and connectors to SAP and non-SAP systems, guided templates, and built-in SAP developer best practices to accelerate development.

 

Good data is the foundation of good AI, and SAP HANA Cloud continues to pioneer innovation in the data space by adding new vector database features to its multimodel offerings at no additional cost. Vector data stores manage unstructured data – such as text, images or audio – to provide long-term memory and better context to AI models. This makes it easy to find and retrieve similar objects quickly.

For example, users can search for suppliers based on the language in their contracts to examine payment history and trace individual orders. These powerful new vector database features enhance interactions between large language models and an organization’s mission-critical data. The innovation helps put SAP developers at the forefront of delivering radically new levels of data insight within a secure, private framework that uses industry-specific customer data to reduce hallucinations.

AI Foundation on SAP BTP, a new one-stop shop for developers to create AI- and generative AI-powered extensions and applications on SAP BTP, will further help increase developers’ impact and efficiency. AI Foundation includes everything developers need to start creating business-ready AI tools on SAP BTP – from ready-to-use AI services and access to the top large language models to vector database capabilities and AI runtime and lifecycle management.

AI Learning Opportunities with SAP

The rapid pace of technological innovation has driven up global demand for skilled developers – and SAP is increasing its learning opportunities in tandem. As part of a commitment to upskill two million professionals by 2025 and complement free AI learning content already available, SAP today launched new role-based certification and free learning resources for back-end developers using the ABAP Cloud development model. The two new learning resources covering ABAP development tools on SAP BTP and SAP S/4HANA are available on the SAP Learning site. They are designed for agile and cloud-compliant business transformation, providing developers with skills to build cloud-ready extensions that are aligned with SAP’s clean core strategy. SAP has also joined the Stanford HAI (Institute for Human-Centered AI) Corporate Affiliate Program. Researchers and engineers at SAP will work with the Stanford academic community, including research faculty and students, on the intersection of generative AI and business.

Stack Overflow Enters Generative-AI Universe, Launches OverflowAI

• Recently introduced OverflowAI. The newly launched OverflowAI will offer users a series of new capabilities based on various AI/ML solutions sourced for both its public platform and market-leading SaaS product, Stack Overflow for Teams.
• With the launch of OverflowAI, the addition of AI/ML solutions will offer users a series of new capabilities that will ensure they get to solutions faster within their workflow.

Stack Overflow, the world’s largest, most trusted online community for developers and technologists to learn, share their programming knowledge, and build their careers, recently introduced OverflowAI. The newly launched OverflowAI will offer users a series of new capabilities based on various AI/ML solutions sourced for both its public platform and market-leading SaaS product, Stack Overflow for Teams.

Since its inception in 2008, its public platform has been one of the world's most visited websites, serving millions of the world’s most active developers and technologists visiting every month to ask questions, learn, and share technical knowledge. With the launch of OverflowAI, the addition of AI/ML solutions will offer users a series of new capabilities that will ensure they get to solutions faster within their workflow.

OverflowAI within Stack Overflow for Teams will drive the following:

• OverflowAI Enterprise Knowledge Ingestion: With OverflowAI, users of Stack Overflow for Teams can swiftly curate a knowledge base by using trusted existing content. AI/ML assists in creating initial tags and suggesting QA pairs, enabling developers to concentrate on enhancing and validating accuracy.
• Improved Search with OverflowAI: Teams on Stack Overflow can swiftly discover accurate answers and learning paths. Trusted sources include Stack Overflow for Teams, public Stack Overflow, as well as customer repositories like Confluence and GitHub - with more sources to be added.
• OverflowAI Visual Studio Code Extension: As developers spend a lot of time in an IDE, Stack Overflow will maintain that workflow. The extension integrates public platform and private Teams content, offering a personalized summary of how to solve problems efficiently and effectively.
• OverflowAI Slack Integration: StackPlusOne chatbot instantly delivers verified solutions while you are in Slack. GenAI integration uses community-validated sources while keeping a company’s data private.

On Stack Overflow’s public platform:

• OverflowAI Search: Public platform users get quick, reliable answers through GenAI-powered search. Using trusted data from 58M+ Stack Overflow Q&A, responses can be attributed and cited, having the capacity to expand queries to the knowledge base for more individualized, relevant results and follow-up inquiries.
• AI community discussions: Access unbiased tech resources and expert insights via the GenAI Stack Exchange, centered around knowledge sharing for writing prompts for GenAI tools and AI/ML more broadly. Stack Overflow's Natural Language Processing NLP Collective adds 'Discussions' for focused debates, sharing insights, and aiding informed decisions.

“For the last fifteen years, developers have come to Stack Overflow to get a solution to a specific problem. The problems we helped solve back in 2008 are not the ones we solved in 2023. As the needs of developers evolve, so does how they seek knowledge. Our goal is to be the most valuable destination for the world’s current and next generation of technologists,” said Prashanth Chandrasekar, Chief Executive Officer at Stack Overflow. As generative AI becomes more prevalent, Stack Overflow's foundation of trusted and accurate data will become increasingly important for developing the technological solutions that will drive future innovation.

About Stack Overflow

Across both its public and private platforms, Stack Overflow is empowering developer communities to discover the information, answers, and learning opportunities they need – when they need them. Millions of the world's developers and technologists visit Stack Overflow to ask questions, learn, and share technical knowledge, making it one of the most popular websites in the world. Stack Overflow’s market-leading knowledge-sharing and collaboration platform, Stack Overflow for Teams, helps more than 15,000 organizations distribute knowledge, increase efficiency, and innovate faster. Founded in 2008, Stack Exchange, Inc., the owner of Stack Overflow, is headquartered in New York, NY. Stack Overflow is a registered trademark of Stack Exchange, Inc

Cloudflare’s Startup Fund Grows to $2B; 1M Devs Now Building with Cloudflare Workers

Cloudflare’s “Workers Launchpad” Funding Program Grows to $2 Billion, Announces First Cohort of Startups

Funding program grows to 40 venture capital firms; first cohort of entrepreneurs building on Cloudflare Workers includes 25 startups, spanning 10 countries

Today, Cloudflare announced the Workers Launchpad Funding Program, originally launched in September at $1.25B, has grown to $2 billion in potential investment for startups building on Cloudflare Workers. This is an increase of 14 VC partners, including Kleiner Perkins, Counterpoint Global (Morgan Stanley), and more, with an additional $750 million in less than two months, thanks to continued interest from VCs around the world. Cloudflare is also introducing the first cohort of startups participating in the program, featuring 25 companies from 10 countries.

Matthew Prince, Co-founder & CEO, Cloudflare

“When we set out to debut the Workers Launchpad, we were aiming for $250 million and surpassed that goal by a mile when we hit $1.25 billion. To reach $2 billion is a big deal, and one that proves the industry trusts in the potential of our global network” said Matthew Prince, co-founder and CEO, Cloudflare. “As we hit 1 million developers building and maintaining applications with Cloudflare, there’s no better time to continue investing in the developers using Cloudflare.”

The Cloudflare Workers Launchpad funding program initially launched in September 2022 to provide more than $1.25 billion of financing to startups building applications on Cloudflare Workers, a highly-scalable serverless computing platform that allows developers to build or augment apps without configuring or maintaining infrastructure. In the days and weeks following, Cloudflare received a surge in interest globally from venture capitalists interested in joining the program. Cloudflare has now welcomed 14 additional venture capital partners into the program, adding regional expertise in Latin America and the Middle East to the pool of partners.

New venture partners include:

• 8VC: “We’re extremely excited to be backing the next generation of founders building at the edge on top of Cloudflare Workers. At 8VC, we partner with founders to build transformational technologies that create long-term value for the economy and society as a whole. We believe that serverless infrastructure will enable a new generation of transformational technologies in the area of multi-modal, data and AI driven applications,” said Bhaskar Ghosh (BG), Partner and CTO at 8VC.
• B Capital: “Workers provides the technology and infrastructure to founders excited to build next generation products, and B Capital is proud to work alongside of these great innovators to provide insights and capital to grow in a bold way from the start,” said Karen Page, General Partner at B Capital.
• Benhamou Global Ventures: “The next generation of apps will be built in a distributed way and at the edge to meet the consumer demands of latency, performance and scale. We are excited to partner with the Cloudflare Workers Fund and support the entrepreneurs building this next wave of enterprise startups,” said Yash Hemaraj, Partner at BGV.
• Chamaeleon: “At Chamaeleon, we look forward to collaborating with Cloudflare's Workers Launchpad, by bringing the firm, our unique quant & tech platform and our #KIN members to the forefront of our value-add to this pioneering ecosystem,” said Nuno Goncalves Pedro, Managing Partner and Co-Founder of Chamaeleon.
• Conversion Capital: “The Cloudflare Workers platform provides the building blocks to usher in a new era of serverless infrastructure, which is drastically reshaping large parts of the global economy run on software. We are excited to partner with Cloudflare and help accelerate this transition,” said Christian Lawless, General Partner at Conversion Capital.
• GGV: “We’ve been amazed by how quickly the Workers ecosystem has blossomed and are already seeing some of the most innovative founders we know building serverless products on top of or closely tied into Cloudflare. As more startups look to build on Workers from day one, we’re very excited about supporting the ecosystem,” said Dan Cahana, Investor at GGV Capital.
• IGNIA: “IGNIA’s focus of partnering with world-class tech entrepreneurs in Latin America aims to ensure the best technology can scale in and out of the region. Cloudflare Workers’ ability to have code running in minutes around the world gives so much potential to the entrepreneurs we want to see succeed,” said Alvaro Rodríguez Arregui, Co-Founder & Managing Partner at IGNIA.
• Kleiner Perkins: "For five decades, Kleiner Perkins has partnered with founders at the earliest stages of company formation. Many of these companies were enabled by advances in computing, from the PC, to mobile, to cloud. The Cloudflare Workers Launchpad program stands to advance the next wave - edge computing. We're excited to be a part of the global platform they are building to support builders in this rapidly growing ecosystem,” said Bucky Moore, partner, Kleiner Perkins.
• Nauta Capital: “Thrilled to partner with Cloudflare on this Workers Launchpad Funding Program. Nauta Capital has been keenly following the technology disruptions in enterprise infrastructure software for decades, and developers are increasingly interested in spending time on the 'core problem', leaving infrastructure to be handled for them. Cloudflare provides a powerful platform for some of these new ideas to take shape,” said Pratima Aiyagari, Venture Partner at Nauta Capital.
• Primary VC: “At Primary, we love building with founders from the ground up. Cloudflare Workers has the performance and scale that founders need to build a category-defining company and we're eager to partner with the teams using this powerful platform,” said Brian Schechter, Partner at Primary VC.
• Unusual Ventures: “Founders want to focus on creating products that matter. To do that, they need partners and infrastructure that allow them to efficiently run secure, scalable applications. That's why we're excited to partner with Cloudflare on Workers Launchpad: to enable founders and teams with the tools they need to reach product-market fit and beyond," said Wei Lien Dang, General Partner at Unusual Ventures.

Introducing the Workers Launchpad’s Fall 2022 Cohort

Additionally, Cloudflare is announcing the Fall cohort of 25 entrepreneurs from around the world, chosen from hundreds of applicants from over 30 countries. Cohort finalists include Apyfy, working on data privacy, and Grafbase, accelerating backend software development. The cohort includes startups from

Belgium, Canada, France, Germany, India, Netherlands, Portugal, Singapore, the United Kingdom and the United States. The cohort will have the opportunity to pitch our VC partners for investment, receive technical advice and support, participate in a virtual boot camp featuring sessions led by Cloudflare leaders and our VC partners, and showcase their businesses during a Demo Day.

"Apyfy aims to provide a privacy firewall that solves data privacy challenges in the health care, financial service and ecommerce industries. We use Cloudflare Workers and Durable Objects to enable privacy-preserving computation across a global network. Cloudflare also solves our customers' data sovereignty and data residency requirements while providing massive compute power, and minimal latency,” said John Childs-Eddy, Cofounder of Apyfy.

"Grafbase is the easiest way to build and deploy GraphQL backends. We set out with Cloudflare thanks to their global network and serverless FaaS platform without cold starts, with the goal to simplify and speed up backend development for frontend and mobile developers," said Fredrik Björk, Founder and CEO of Grafbase.

“We’ve been blown away by the engagement and excitement the venture capital firms have shown when they saw the caliber of applicants,” said Mia Wang, M&A and Strategy Director at Cloudflare. “The selection process for the first cohort has been collaborative and we’re looking forward to connecting startups directly with VCs in the coming weeks.”

A Million Developers Building With Cloudflare

Earlier this week, Cloudflare shared that 1 million developers are building enterprise-ready applications with Cloudflare. With Workers features like Pages, Durable Objects, R2 and D1, and application services like rate limiting, load balancing, bot management and more, Cloudflare provides the tools to make building and maintaining applications cheaper, faster, and easier for developers.

To learn more, please check out the resources below:

Blog: Announcing the first Workers Launchpad cohort and growth of the program to [$2BN]

To apply to the Winter 2023 cohort, visit the Workers Launchpad page

Blog: Announcing the Workers Launchpad Funding Program

Blog: The Cloudflare Startup Plan, v2.0

Learn more about Cloudflare Workers

Get started with Cloudflare Workers

About Cloudflare

Cloudflare, Inc. (www.cloudflare.com / @cloudflare) is on a mission to help build a better Internet. Cloudflare’s suite of products protect and accelerate any Internet application online without adding hardware, installing software, or changing a line of code. Internet properties powered by Cloudflare have all web traffic routed through its intelligent global network, which gets smarter with every request. As a result, they see significant improvement in performance and a decrease in spam and other attacks. Cloudflare was named to Entrepreneur Magazine’s Top Company Cultures 2018 list and ranked among the World’s Most Innovative Companies by Fast Company in 2019. Headquartered in San Francisco, CA, Cloudflare has offices in Austin, TX, Champaign, IL, New York, NY, San Jose, CA, Seattle, WA, Washington, D.C., Toronto, Dubai, Lisbon, London, Munich, Paris, Beijing, Singapore, Sydney, and Tokyo.