Zoom Video Communications

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Location San Jose, CA
Founded 2011
Latest Stage IPO
Total Raised $160M
Website https://zoom.us
Sector
video-communications enterprise saas

Investors

Dan Scheinman Seed (2011)
Matthew Ocko Seed (2011)
bill-tai Seed (2011)
Jerry Yang
qualcomm-ventures Series A (2013)
AME Cloud Ventures Series A (2013)
horizons-ventures Series B (2013)
Emergence Capital Series C (2015)
Sequoia Capital Series D (2017)

Founders

Eric Yuan CEO & Founder

About

Zoom Video Communications is a video-first communications platform founded in 2011 by Eric Yuan, a former Cisco/WebEx engineer 1. The company priced its IPO at $36/share on April 17, 2019 and began trading on NASDAQ under ticker “ZM” on April 18, 2019, opening at $65 (up ~80% from the offer price) and closing near $62 for a first-day market value of approximately $16 billion 2567.

Funding History

Round Date Amount Lead Investor(s) Co-Investors Valuation
Seed 2011-06 $3M Subrah Iyar, Dan Scheinman Matt Ocko, TSVC, Bill Tai Not disclosed 1
Series A 2013-01-28 $6M Qualcomm Ventures Jerry Yang (AME Cloud Ventures), Subrah Iyar, Dan Scheinman Not disclosed 48
Series B 2013-09-24 $6.5M Horizons Ventures Jerry Yang, Patrick Soon-Shiong Not publicly disclosed by primary sources 910
Series C 2015-02-04 $30M Emergence Capital Horizons Ventures, Qualcomm Ventures, Jerry Yang, Patrick Soon-Shiong Not disclosed 11
Series D 2017-01-17 $100M Sequoia Capital Emergence Capital, AME Cloud Ventures, Qualcomm Ventures $1B (unicorn) 3
IPO 2019-04-18 $751M Morgan Stanley, J.P. Morgan, Goldman Sachs, Credit Suisse (book-running managers) — ~$16B first-day close 567

Note: Some secondary sources label the rounds differently. This profile follows the labels used in Zoom’s own press releases 3911.

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Sources

  1. BigFrame, “Who Were the Early Investors in Zoom?,” accessed March 2026. https://bigframe.net/who-were-the-early-investors-in-zoom/↩↩

  2. CB Insights, “How Zoom’s Top Stakeholders Are Faring 3 Months After The Company’s IPO,” accessed March 2026. https://www.cbinsights.com/research/zoom-ipo-investor-analysis/↩

  3. GlobeNewsWire, “Zoom Partners with Sequoia in $100 Million Funding Round,” January 17, 2017. https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2017/01/17/1311117/0/en/Zoom-Partners-with-Sequoia-in-100-Million-Funding-Round.html↩↩

  4. TechCrunch, “Zoom Raises $6M Series A, Launches Version 1.0 Of Its Radically Different Virtual Conferencing Tool,” January 28, 2013, accessed April 2026. https://techcrunch.com/2013/01/28/zoom-raises-6m-series-a-launches-version-1-0-of-its-radically-different-virtual-conferencing-tool/↩

  5. GlobeNewsWire (Zoom), “Zoom Announces Pricing of Initial Public Offering,” April 17, 2019, accessed April 2026. https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2019/04/18/1806186/0/en/Zoom-Announces-Pricing-of-Initial-Public-Offering.html↩↩

  6. CNN Business, “Zoom nearly reaches $16 billion in value after first day of trading,” April 18, 2019, accessed April 2026. https://www.cnn.com/2019/04/18/tech/zoom-ipo-video-conference↩↩

  7. CNBC, “Zoom IPO: Stock begins trading on Nasdaq,” April 18, 2019, accessed April 2026. https://www.cnbc.com/2019/04/18/zoom-ipo-stock-begins-trading-on-nasdaq.html↩↩

  8. FinSMEs, “Zoom Video Communications Closes Series A Funding,” January 2013, accessed April 2026. https://www.finsmes.com/2013/01/zoom-video-communications-closes-series-funding.html↩

  9. PR Newswire (Zoom), “Zoom Video Communications Announces Record Customer Growth and Series B Funding,” September 24, 2013, accessed April 2026. https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/zoom-video-communications-announces-record-customer-growth-and-series-b-funding-225021372.html↩↩

  10. TechCrunch, “Zoom Video Conferencing Adds $6.5M In Funding To Drive Expansion And Uptake In Education And Health,” September 24, 2013, accessed April 2026. https://techcrunch.com/2013/09/24/zoom-video-conferencing-platform-adds-6-5m-in-funding-to-drive-expansion-and-uptake-in-education-and-health/↩

  11. GlobeNewsWire (Zoom), “Zoom Raises $30M in Series C Funding Led by Emergence Capital,” February 4, 2015, accessed April 2026. https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2015/02/04/1130354/0/en/Zoom-Raises-30M-in-Series-C-Funding-Led-by-Emergence-Capital.html↩↩