Cloudflare announces second acquisition of the month with Astro
On the back of Cloudflare acquiring the UK based startup Human Native, the company has now announced that it has acquired The Astro Technology Company.
A popular JavaScript web framework used by major brands like Unilever, Visa, and NBC News, as well as hundreds of thousands of developers, to build fast, content-driven websites, Astro’s team will be joining Cloudflare.
Astro will remain open source to ensure the long-term growth and development of the project under Cloudflare’s stewardship.
“Protecting and investing in open source tools is critical to the health of a functioning, free, and open Internet,” said Matthew Prince, co-founder and CEO of Cloudflare. “By acquiring this talented team and committing to one of the most impactful frameworks when it comes to speed and performance, we’re going to ensure Astro continues to be the best web framework for content-driven websites, not only as it is today but for years to come.”
With the Astro team joining Cloudflare, the companies are doubling down on a sustainable future for Astro to remain the definitive framework for content-driven websites.
This move is significant because it strengthens Cloudflare’s commitment to a faster, more efficient web by backing one of the most widely used frameworks for content-driven sites. Astro’s approach—shipping only the critical code needed to render a page—helps publishers and brands deliver quicker load times that can improve search visibility, user experience, and conversions.
By bringing the Astro team into Cloudflare while keeping the framework open source, Cloudflare is investing in the long-term health of the ecosystem and accelerating Astro’s development at scale, giving developers and businesses a more sustainable path to building high-performance websites across the open Internet.
“Joining Cloudflare allows us to accelerate Astro’s development faster and on a much larger scale,” said Fred Schott, CEO of The Astro Technology Company. “Astro will continue to be the best way for developers to build content-driven websites, whether they host on Cloudflare or elsewhere.”