Zhangmen

Edtech · Hongkou District, China · Founded 2010 · IPO 2021

Zhangmen Education, initially established in 2014, emerged as a prominent online education platform in China, specializing in one-on-one and small-class after-school tutoring for K-12 students. The company was founded by Chuan-dan (David) Zhang, who conceived the idea while he was a student at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, drawing from his personal experience as a private tutor. This background provided him with firsthand insight into the potential of personalized education, which became the cornerstone of the company's philosophy. The platform covered a wide array of academic subjects and operated primarily within the competitive Chinese online education market. Its business model was centered on connecting students with a vast network of teachers for live, interactive online sessions, charging tuition fees for these courses. Zhangmen differentiated itself by leveraging technology to offer personalized learning paths, AI-driven class allocation, and comprehensive tutoring services accessible from home. This model proved highly scalable, allowing the company to attract millions of registered students. A significant milestone in the company's history was its initial public offering (IPO) on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) on June 8, 2021, trading under the ticker symbol ZME. This event marked a peak in its valuation and signaled strong investor confidence in the online tutoring sector at the time. However, the company's trajectory was profoundly impacted by subsequent regulatory changes in China's private education industry during the summer of 2021. These new regulations severely restricted for-profit tutoring, leading to a dramatic downturn for Zhangmen and its peers. Following these challenges and a significant decline in its stock value, Zhangmen was delisted from the NYSE in June 2022. Keywords: online education, K-12 tutoring, edtech, one-on-one learning, after-school tutoring, Chinese education market, personalized learning, NYSE listing, education regulation, AI in education

Revenue $10–50M

Headcount 1–2k

Total funding $500M–1B

Power Law Unicorn$1–10B valuation tier

Investors

10 investors on Zhangmen's cap table

Sourced from Dealroom's funding history. Investor profile links are shown where available.

Seed 1 investor entered at this stage

Zhangguigonglue (spoon classroom)

Series B+ 9 investors entered at this stage

Huaxing Growth Capital

Warburg Pincus

Genesis-Capital

CMC Capital

CICC Alpha

China Media Capital (CMC)

International Finance Corporation

SoftBank Vision Fund

Genesis Capital

Global footprint

Where Zhangmen has talent and traffic

Workforce by country

5 countries with
team presence

🇨🇳 China97.7%

🇭🇰 Hong Kong0.9%

🇬🇧 United Kingdom0.5%

🇺🇸 United States0.5%

🇦🇺 Australia0.5%

5 countries shown

Web traffic by country

3.2K monthly visits
across markets

🇺🇸 United States81.3%

🇹🇼 Taiwan12.5%

🇭🇰 Hong Kong6.3%

🇯🇵 Japan0%

Top 4 markets shown

Talent graph

The shape of Zhangmen's talent

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6 team members profilednamed & role-tagged by Dealroom

1,038 employeestotal headcount

4 executives & foundersidentified by name

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Patent intelligence

$110k patent portfolio · 1 active families

Estimated portfolio value

$110k

14× smaller than top peer Vipkid ($2M)

1 active patent families

Where Zhangmen innovates Business enterpriseData miningData scienceGroup teachingKnowledge management

Where Zhangmen concentrates vs peers

Each axis is a top-10 topic across Zhangmen and its closest peers. #1 = 100, #10 = 10, absent = 0.

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Market sentiment

What the market is saying about Zhangmen

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Reading the room on X — pulling top posts and synthesizing themes…

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