#Zoom meeting app software
#Zoom meeting app series

In November 2015, former president of RingCentral David Berman was named president of the company, and Peter Gassner, the founder and CEO of Veeva Systems, joined Zoom's board of directors. With version 2.5 in October 2015, Zoom increased the maximum number of participants allowed per conference to 50 and later to 1,000 for business customers.

#Zoom meeting app software

Over the course of 20, the company integrated its software with Slack, Salesforce, and Skype for Business. At that time, Zoom had 40 million users, with 65,000 organizations subscribed and a total of 1 billion meeting minutes since it was established.

#Zoom meeting app series

On February 4, 2015, the company received US$30 million in Series C funding from investors including Emergence Capital, Horizons Ventures ( Li Ka-shing), Qualcomm Ventures, Jerry Yang, and Patrick Soon-Shiong.

In April 2020, daily users increased to more than 200 million. In September 2013, the company raised $6.5 million in a Series B round from Horizon Ventures, and existing investors. In July 2013, Zoom established partnerships with B2B collaboration software providers, such as Redbooth (then Teambox), and also created a program named Works with Zoom, which established partnerships with Logitech, Vaddio, and InFocus. By the end of its first month, Zoom had 400,000 users and by May 2013 it had 1 million users. Zoom launched version 1.0 of the program allowing the maximum number of participants per conference to be 25. The service was launched in January 2013 after the company raised a $6 million Series A round from Qualcomm Ventures, Yahoo! founder Jerry Yang, WebEx founder Subrah Iyar, and former Cisco SVP and General Counsel Dan Scheinman. In November 2012, the company signed Stanford University as its first customer. In September 2012, Zoom launched a beta version that could host conferences with up to 15 video participants. In May 2012, the company changed its name to Zoom, influenced by Thacher Hurd's children's book Zoom City. In June 2011, the company raised $3 million of seed money from WebEx founder Subrah Iyar, former Cisco SVP and General Counsel Dan Scheinman, and venture capitalists Matt Ocko, TSVC, and Bill Tai. The company had trouble finding investors because many people thought the videotelephony market was already saturated. He left Cisco in April 2011 with 40 engineers to start a new company, originally named Saasbee, Inc. Zoom was founded by Eric Yuan, a former corporate vice president for Cisco Webex.

Its software products have faced public and media scrutiny related to security and privacy issues. Д«eginning in early 2020, Zoom's software usage saw a remarkable global increase after quarantine measures were adopted in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The company joined the NASDAQ-100 stock index on April 30, 2020.

The company first became profitable in 2019, and completed an initial public offering that year. Zoom's revenue growth, and perceived ease-of-use and reliability of its software, resulted in a $1 billion valuation in 2017, making it a ' unicorn' company. Д®ric Yuan, a former Cisco engineer and executive, founded Zoom in 2011, and launched its software in 2013. It provides videotelephony and online chat services through a cloud-based peer-to-peer software platform used for video communications (Meetings), messaging (Chat), voice calls (Phone), conference rooms for video meetings (Rooms), virtual events (Events) and contact centers (Contact Center), and offers an open platform allowing third-party developers to build custom applications on its unified communications platform (Developer Platform). (commonly shortened to Zoom, and stylized as zoom) is an American communications technology company headquartered in San Jose, California.