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Zscaler
Cybersecurity · San Jose, United States · Founded 2008 · IPO 2018
Talent graph
Zscaler's talent
Source: Dealroom Talent Intelligence.
Zscaler mafia
Startups founded by Zscaler alumni
Former Zscaler employees who went on to start their own companies. Sorted by Dealroom signal score.
Mark RyanUnited Kingdom
Jay ChaudhryUnited States
Shankar SubramaniamUnited States
Kfir TishbiIsrael
Pankaj ParekhUnited States
Kristian KamberUnited States
Itay KrukIsrael
Vinod ChandruUnited States
Boris GorinIsrael
Marc-Henri SpiessFranceGlobal footprint
Where Zscaler has talent and traffic
team presence
across markets
Patent intelligence
$41M patent portfolio · 422 active families
Where Zscaler concentrates vs peers
Each axis is a top-10 topic across Zscaler and its closest peers. #1 = 100, #10 = 10, absent = 0.
Source: Dealroom Patent Intelligence · Patsnap. Request a demo for the full per-sub-category breakdown, individual records, and quality-score history.
Capital deployed
Zscaler's 18 investments and acquisitions.
Every disclosed deal where Zscaler appeared as a backer or acquirer, 2020–2026. 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.
18 deals across Zscaler's capital deployment.
Where the deals concentrate by sector, stage, and decade.
01 · Deployment strategy vs peers
Where Zscaler 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.
02 · Portfolio market map
Zscaler'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
What the market is saying about Zscaler
An AI-synthesized read of the highest-engagement posts about Zscaler on X over the past 7 days. We rank by likes & retweets, ignore corporate channels, and surface the themes that broke out from real people.
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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