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Zendesk
Cloud-based customer service platform
At a glance
- Founded
- 2007
- Headquarters
- San Francisco, United States
- Listing
- IPO 2014
- Sector
- AI
- Power Law
- Decacorn$10B+ valuation tierThoroughbred$100M+ revenue
Research & analysis
Analysis
Europe's Decacorns & Centicorns — the Map
Aug 23, 2026
News
Lovable raises $400M at $13.3B valuation, eyes $600M revenue run rate
Aug 12, 2026
News
Israel's Inevitable AI Group raises $6M pre-seed to spin up AI-native rivals to SaaS giants
Aug 7, 2026
News
Rep AI raises $6.2M follow-on round led by Silicon Road Ventures
May 28, 2026
Latest news
Press, funding announcements and product moves mentioning Zendesk.
Investors
From Dealroom's funding and investor records, grouped by the round each investor first entered.
Seed1 investor entered at this stage
- CJChristoph Janz
Series A1 investor entered at this stage
Series B and later9 investors entered at this stage
Goldman Sachs
Matrix Partners
Notable Capital
Index Ventures
Redpoint
Benchmark
IVP- EFEmployee Stock Option Fund (ESO Fund)
Silicon Valley Bank
Source: Dealroom Talent Intelligence.
Alumni founders
Former Zendesk employees who went on to found companies, sorted by Dealroom signal score.
BABaseEst. 2009
Pawel NiznikUnited States
MIMiddeskEst. 2018
Kurt RuppelUnited States
Bjorn LeeSingapore
Tiago AlvesPortugalGlobal footprint
team presence
across markets
Patents
37 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 Zendesk was the backer or acquirer, 2014–2026. 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.
25 deals across Zendesk's capital deployment.
Where the deals concentrate by sector, stage, and decade.
Zendesk'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 Zendesk 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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