Zed Industries
Zed is a high-performance, multiplayer code editor from the creators of Atom and Tree-sitter.
- Founded
- 2021
- Headquarters
- San Francisco, CA
- Employees
- 11-50
- Latest Round
- Series B
- Est. Valuation
- ~$123M
Investment Thesis
Code editors have not kept up with how developers actually work. VS Code is slow for large projects, and no editor natively supports real-time collaboration or AI coding.
Zed is a high-performance code editor built from scratch in Rust. It is designed for speed (GPU-accelerated rendering), real-time multiplayer collaboration, and native AI coding assistance.
AI-assisted coding is becoming standard, but existing editors bolt it on as plugins. Zed integrates AI at the core.
Open-sourced in 2024. Growing developer community. Raised $42M total with Sequoia leading Series B.
Nathan Sobo (CEO, creator of Atom at GitHub) and Max Brunsfeld (co-creator of Tree-sitter).