Eric Yuan

Eric Yuan

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Founder & CEO

Bio

Eric Yuan founded Zoom in 2011 to deliver happiness and bring teams together in a frictionless video environment. Zoom’s video-first unified communications platform continues to dramatically transform the way leading global enterprises communicate. Under Eric’s leadership, Zoom was one of the highest-performing tech IPOs of 2019.

Prior to founding Zoom, Eric was corporate vice president of engineering at Cisco, where he was responsible for Cisco's collaboration software development. Eric was one of the founding engineers and vice president of engineering at Webex. Between 1997 and 2011, he grew his team from 10 engineers to more than 800 worldwide and contributed to revenue growth from $0 to more than $800M.

Eric has been named one of the Most Powerful People in Enterprise Tech by Business Insider. In 2018, he was named the #1 CEO of a large US company by Glassdoor and EY Entrepreneur of the Year in Northern California (software category). In 2019, he was added to the Bloomberg 50 as a leader who changed the game in global business. Eric is a named inventor on 11 issued and 20 pending patents in real-time collaboration.

Location

Santa Clara, California, United States, North America

Social

Primary Organization

Zoom

Zoom

Founded

2011

Investment

26

Lead investment

12

Exits

5

Employees

5001-10000

Industry

Collaboration, Information Technology, Messaging, Video Conferencing

Jobs history

1

Zoom Apps Fund

Founder

Invalid date - Current

Board and Advisor Roles

0

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Profile Resume

Eric Yuan is the Founder & CEO at Zoom, based in United States, North America. With a background in Collaboration, Eric Yuan has a rich history of leadership and innovation. Explore their detailed professional journey, key connections, and contributions to the industry on our platform.

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Investment portfolio

Eric Yuan has made 13 investments. Their Latest investment was Series A - Trendsi on Oct 10, 2022

Number of investment

13

Number of exits

4

Personal investment

13

Annouced DateOrganization NameFunding RoundMoney Raised
Aug 26, 2021
Kintsugi Kintsugi
Seed Round - Kintsugi
8.0M
Sep 30, 2021
KiwiDrop KiwiDrop
Seed Round - KiwiDrop
0
Oct 26, 2021
Coefficient Coefficient
Seed Round - Coefficient
6.7M
Oct 10, 2022
Trendsi Trendsi
Series A - Trendsi
25.0M

Partner investment

2

Annouced DateOrganization NameFunding RoundInvestor NameMoney Raised
Jul 22, 2020
Neat Neat
Corporate Round - Neat
Neat Zoom
0
Sep 08, 2021
Neat Neat
Corporate Round - Neat
Neat Zoom
30.0M

Exits

3

exit.name Plato

Plato

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