Eric Yuan
Founder & CEO @ Zoom
Santa Clara, United States
Eric Yuan is a Series A investor at Zoom in Santa Clara focused on Software and Artificial Intelligence. 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 foundingZoom, 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.
- Total investments:
- 34
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 15%
Last updated:
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Industries Eric Yuan invests in
Stages Eric Yuan invests in
Countries Eric Yuan invests in
Round sizes
Round size
- Seed
- $4.5M–$10M
- Series A
- $8M–$20M
- Series B
- $26M–$2B
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 11 (32%)
- Artificial Intelligence 8 (24%)
- SaaS 7 (21%)
- Internet 5 (15%)
- E-Commerce 4 (12%)
Stage
- Series A 12 (35%)
- Seed 9 (26%)
- Series B 4 (12%)
- Pre-Seed 2 (6%)
- Series C 2 (6%)
Country
- United States 19 (56%)
- India 2 (6%)
- United Kingdom 2 (6%)
- Italy 1 (3%)
- Spain 1 (3%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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Generalist AI
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Generalist AI is a robotics firm formed by a senior researcher who left Google to investigate robotics and artificial intelligence (AI) at Google Deepmind. | $400M / Series B / Jun 04, 2026 | |
Reflection AI
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Reflection.Ai is a start-up that develops artificial intelligence solutions, with a focus on computer vision. | $2B / Series B / Oct 09, 2025 | |
Trendsi
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Trendsi is an online fashion B2B marketplace that makes it easy for sellers to build their businesses by providing wholesale inventory. The company combines its technology and supply chain capability to help anyone start and grow their business at minimum risk. No upfront inventory or subscription cost, one-stop access to quality merchandise atgreat prices. | $25M / Series A / Oct 10, 2022 | |
WeBox
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Saltalk is a virtual kitchen platform that focuses on Asian Authentic Food optimized for delivery services. | $8M / Series A / Apr 06, 2022 | |
LoomPay
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LoomPay is a financial technology company that offers mobile payments, multi-currency accounts and financial services. The company's mission is to enable members to change their lives by creating better financial outcomes. It was founded in 2019 and headquartered in London, United Kingdom. | $5M / Seed / Feb 08, 2022 | |
hireEZ
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At hireEZ, our mission is to make outbound recruiting easy. We’re dedicated to helping recruiters proactively bring jobs to people and give organizations the solutions they need to make the switch from inbound to outbound recruiting to achieve their business goals, hire the right people and build more inclusive workplaces. That’s why we developedhireEZ (formerly Hiretual), an AI-powered outbound recruitment platform. With hireEZ, you can execute a strategically scalable approach to build your workforce of the future. | $26M / Series C / Feb 02, 2022 | |
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hireEZ
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At hireEZ, our mission is to make outbound recruiting easy. We’re dedicated to helping recruiters proactively bring jobs to people and give organizations the solutions they need to make the switch from inbound to outbound recruiting to achieve their business goals, hire the right people and build more inclusive workplaces. That’s why we developedhireEZ (formerly Hiretual), an AI-powered outbound recruitment platform. With hireEZ, you can execute a strategically scalable approach to build your workforce of the future. | $26M / Series B / Jan 25, 2022 | |
HUBUC
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A single API-platform that allows any business to embed financial services capabilities into their products. e.g Uber can issue branded credit cards for all Uber drivers and Walmart provides customers a simple way to better manage and control their everyday finances, with no regulatory burden or compliance requirements in a few weeks. | $10M / Seed / Jan 14, 2022 | |
Gamma
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Gamma is a provider of an AI-powered presentation platform for enterprise collaboration. Its presentation platform allows users to share links async, export PDFs, and save images. It also allows users to create unlimited presentations and websites to create content using templates and no-code updates. | $7M / Seed / Oct 28, 2021 | |
Coefficient
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Coefficient turns spreadsheets into an operating system for business teams with real-time data connectivity, automation, and workflows. The solution connects, automates, and shares real-time data in Google Sheets, ensuring that reports, dashboards, and insights are always up to date. With a single click, they can connect Google Sheets to any sourcesystem. | $6.7M / Seed / Oct 26, 2021 | |
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Co-Investors
About Zoom
Zoom is a software company that offers a communications platform that connects people through video, voice, chat, and content sharing. It has an easy, reliable cloud platform for video and audio conferencing, collaboration, chat, and webinars across mobile devices, desktops, telephones, and room systems.
Zoom Contacts
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Eric Yuan
Founder & CEO
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Aidan Mehmed
Account Executive EMEA
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Bill Tai
Angel / Seed Investor
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David Rosenberg
Head of Content Licensing
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Eugene Zhang
Angel Investor
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FAQ
What does Eric Yuan invest in?
Eric Yuan invests primarily in Software, Artificial Intelligence and SaaS startups, most often at Series A and Seed stage. Most of the 34 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What is Eric Yuan's check size?
Eric Yuan typically joins rounds of $4.5M–$10M at Seed, $8M–$20M at Series A and $26M–$2B at Series B. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Eric Yuan participates in.
When did Eric Yuan last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Eric Yuan closed in Jun 2026. Shizune tracks 34 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.
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Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.
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