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| Company type | Private Company |
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| Industry | Cloud computing, content delivery, enterprise software |
| Founded | 2011 |
| Founders | Igor Debatur, Anatoly Chernyakov |
| Headquarters | Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada |
Key people | Igor Debatur, Anatoly Chernyakov, Dmitry Mukhin, Alex Karpinsky |
| Revenue | $1 million (2018) |
Number of employees | 26 (2019) |
| Website | uploadcare |
Uploadcare is the SaaS platform that provides upload, processing, cloud storage and delivery of images, video, and other content over CDN.[1][2][3] The web service is used by the researchers in engineering technology as part of the list for web pages load distribution measurements sources.[4]
History
editUploadcare was initially developed in Saint Petersburg-based web design agency as the file upload tool for web developers. Agency co-owners Igor Debatur and Anatoly Chernyakov shaped the concept in 2011 while working on a social network that required upload, processing and storing a large amount of music files. The idea was shared at Hacker News and received positive feedback. The founders invested $35 thousand and presented the alpha version by the end of 2011. To continue the development, they raised the total of $450 thousand investments from Vkontakte co-founder Lev Leviev.[5]
In mid-2010s startup founders moved the office to the US. As the project started getting traction and brought $10 million in revenue from early adopters, the co-owners closed the agency and focused on Uploadcare, two more people joined the team. According to the company spoke-person, Uploadcare reached $1M in revenue in 2018[5] and moved through the break even point, but still was looking for the expansion with the help of venture capital. Then, in November 2019, Uploadcare raised $1.7 million from Runa Capital.[5][6][7] and Vendep Capital.[6] The next month it acquired the Vancouver-based startup Blinkloader that offered image optimization tools for content delivery networks (CDNs) with its development team.[8]
Software
editInitially, the Uploadcare web service was a standalone file uploader for web developers. Then the service added numerous back-end features. It has its own CDN and can integrate with other CDNs.[6] It allows direct upload from popular social networks and file storages, automatically checks the uploads for malware and adult content, and uses CDN to adapt and modify files for end users' devices.[9] Uploadcare uses Akamai and Amazon cloud infrastructure.[5]
Company
editSince the end of 2019 the company is headquartered in Vancouver, Canada. It also has offices in Saint Petersburg[5] and Rotterdam, Netherlands.[10] By the end of 2019 it employed 26 people. It uses SaaS business model with different subscription plans. Its web service is used by Qiwi, Mozilla, Cisco, L'Oreal and other companies.[10]
References
edit- ^ Buckler, Craig. "Chapter 1: Web Performance Matter". In Hibbard, James; Mason, Ralph (eds.). Jump Start Web Performance. Sitepoint Pty Ltd. p. 27. ISBN 978-1-925836-33-2. Retrieved 14 July 2020.
Specialist image and video CDNs can be used in addition or instead of a standard CDN. Popular options include: Cloudimage, Cloudinary, ImageEngine, imgix, piio, imagekit.io, pixboost, Uploadcare
- ^ Mohan, Anand; Singh, Amit Kumar, eds. (19 July 2019). "Importance of Privacy-Preserving Multimedia Processing". Handbook of Multimedia Information Security: Techniques and Applications. Springer. p. 64. Retrieved 14 July 2020.
In addition, various facilities, which are not available with user device can be accessed over the cloud in a cost effective manner. Examples of such services include Google Photos, Cloudinary, Uploadcare, etc. These services have been deployed pleasantly enabling remote users to process their large multimedia files without requiring any software locally.
- ^ Rajput, Amitesh Singh; Balasubramanian, Raman (15 January 2020). "A privacy-preserving protocol for efficient nighttime haze removal using cloud based automatic reference image selection and color transfer as a service". Computer Communications. 150: 703–718. Retrieved 14 July 2020.
Moreover, the digitization has led to enormous amount of multimedia content that is becoming hard to manage, urging organizations to adopt cloud-based solutions (eg Uploadcare [1], Cloudinary [2], Azure Machine Learning [3], IBM Watson Machine Learning [4], etc.)
- ^ Altarawneh, Mokhled; Al-qaisi, Aws K; BANI SALAMAH, JAMAL (August 2019). "EVALUATION OF CLOUD COMPUTING PLATFORM FOR IMAGE PROCESSING ALGORITHMS". Journal of Engineering Science and Technology. 14(4). Malaysia: Taylor's University: 2353. ISSN 1823-4690. Retrieved 14 July 2020.
- ^ a b c d e Chesnokov, Ivan (9 December 2019). "Как двое петербуржцев создали компанию, которая меняет мир обработки данных. История Uploadcare" [The History of Uploadcare: The Company Founded by Two Guys from Saint-Petersburg Changes the Market of Data Processing] (in Russian). Inc.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ a b c Lardinois, Frederic (12 November 2019). "Uploadcare raises $1.7M for its CDN platform". TechCrunch.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ Butcher, Mike (6 May 2020). "Runa Capital closes Fund III at $157M, with an added focus on quantum computing". TechCrunch.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ Kirkwood, Isabelle (11 December 2019). "Image optimization software startup Blinkloader acquired by Uploadcare". BetaKit.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ Firsova, Kristina (1 February 2019). "Ускорить загрузку файлов" [Speeding Up The File Delivery] (in Russian). Invest Foresight.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ a b Khabibrahimov, Albert (12 November 2019). "Стартап по разработке CDN-платформы Uploadcare с основателями из России привлёк $1,7 млн" [CDN startup Uploadcare with Russian founders raised $1.7 million] (in Russian). vc.ru.
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