Zed Announces $10M Series A and Launches its Collaborative Code Editor
Zed's High-Performance Multiplayer Code Editor Elevates Interactions Among Developers
SAN FRANCISCO, March 15, 2023 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Zed Industries, the maker of a high-performance, multiplayer code editor, today announced it raised a $10 million Series A funding round, bringing total investment in the company to $12.5 million. The round was led by Redpoint Ventures, with participation from existing investor Root Ventures as well angel investors including Dylan Field of Figma, Tom Preston Werner of GitHub, Spencer Kimball of CockroachDB, and Rahul Vohra and Todd Goldberg of Superhuman. The company is also launching Zed, its code editor built from scratch to treat collaboration as a first-class concern, into beta after a successful alpha development phase.
Currently, software developers lack good tools for collaboration. While other teams have options like Figma and Google Docs in which they can collaborate in real-time, directly in their authoring environment, the dominant collaboration tools for developers still operate at the speed of email.
"To bring conversations about code directly to the code editing experience, we're proud to officially launch Zed, which we think of as a collaborative platform disguised as a world-class code editor," said co-founder and CEO Nathan Sobo. "Zed is built for a new way of working in which conversations around code are richer, and interactions between developers are more human and connected."
Zed combines the speed of a lightweight editor with the power and extensibility of an IDE, in an elegant and minimal experience with multiplayer functionality. With Zed, multiple developers can navigate and edit within a shared workspace, making it easy to have nuanced conversations directly within the editor about any part of a codebase, whether the code in question was committed last year or hasn't yet been saved to a disk. By controlling the full code-authoring experience, Zed also allows collaboration to operate at the granularity of individual keystrokes, rather than commits.
"Zed's mission is to allow engineers to get their ideas into code as fast as possible, or as they would say 'code at the speed of thought.' This means a lightning fast editor, seamless team collaboration, and much more in the future," said Patrick Chase of Redpoint Ventures. "No team is better equipped to solve this complex set of problems than the team behind Zed––the current version of Zed is the culmination of nearly two years of focused development but nearly 16 years of obsessing over how to build a better editor."
Zed Industries will use the new investment to scale its operations and build the team as it continues to iterate on its product.
The founding team behind Zed –– Nathan Sobo, Max Brunsfeld, and Antonio Scandurra –– also created the hackable text editor, Atom, and the software platform that launched a new generation of desktop apps, Electron. They also built Tree-sitter, an advanced syntax parsing framework used by the most popular editors in the world. Today, Zed is available for download for MacOS.
About Zed
Zed is a high-performance, multiplayer code editor from the creators of Atom and Tree-sitter that allows developers to code at the speed of thought. It combines the speed of a lightweight editor with the power and extensibility of an IDE, in an elegant and minimal experience that treats collaboration as a first-class concern.
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