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Zayo
Zayo supplies bandwidth to influential companies worldwide, driving innovations that shape society
At a glance
- Founded
- 2007
- Headquarters
- Boulder, United States
- Listing
- IPO 2014
- Sector
- Telecom
- Power Law
- Decacorn$10B+ valuation tierThoroughbred$100M+ revenue
Latest news
Press, funding announcements and product moves mentioning Zayo.
Investors
From Dealroom's funding and investor records, grouped by the round each investor first entered.
Series A5 investors entered at this stage
- CVCentennial Ventures
Battery Ventures- OIOak Investment
- CCColumbia Capital
- MPMC Credit Partners
Series B and later4 investors entered at this stage
- GTGTCR
- MPMorgan Stanley Alternative Investment Partners
Morgan Stanley- CPCharlesbank Capital Partners
Source: Dealroom Talent Intelligence.
Alumni founders
Former Zayo employees who went on to found companies, sorted by Dealroom signal score.
OPOpsMillEst. 2023
Raphael MaunierFrance
FHFourth & HeartEst. 2014
Raquel TavaresUnited States
Chris KAfferUnited States
Stephen CotrinaUnited States
Philippe BOUPDACameroonGlobal footprint
team presence
across markets
Patents
20 active patent families included in this estimate.
A patent family groups patent filings for the same invention. Source: Dealroom · PatSnap.
Investments and acquisitions
Disclosed deals where Zayo was the backer or acquirer, 2012–2023. Toggle between venture rounds, M&A, or both. The map below is grouped by the target company's sector — the colored pill on each chip is the round type.
11 deals across Zayo's capital deployment.
Where the deals concentrate by sector, stage, and decade.
Where Zayo deploys vs peers
Each axis is a Dealroom topic tag — picked from the cluster's most-tagged themes. Values are normalized per axis: the peer with the highest tag-coverage on that axis sits at the edge, others scale relative to them. Toggle between M&A, venture, or both.
Zayo's portfolio, mapped.
Each chip is one company. Pill colour shows round type — green for Seed, blue for Series A, purple for B/C+, pink for late-stage, amber for M&A. Bigger sectors keep their full list behind “+ N more”.
Market sentiment
An AI-synthesised read of the highest-engagement posts about Zayo on X, ranked by likes and reposts, corporate channels excluded.
Reading the room on X — pulling top posts and synthesizing themes…
Source: X recent search ranked by engagement (likes + retweets) · Synthesis by Claude · Cached for 1 hour
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