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Uploadcare is the SaaS platform that provides upload, processing, cloud storage and delivery of images, video, and other content over CDN. The web service is used by the researchers in engineering technology as part of the list for web pages load distribution measurements sources.

History
Uploadcare 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.

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 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. and Vendep Capital. The next month it acquired the Vancouver-based startup Blinkloader that offered image optimization tools for content delivery networks (CDNs) with its development team.

Software
Initially, 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. 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. Uploadcare uses Akamai and Amazon cloud infrastructure.

Company
Since the end of 2019 the company is headquartered in Vancouver, Canada. It also has offices in Saint Petersburg and Rotterdam, Netherlands. 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.