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Funding and backers
Total raised
$10M
1 round on record
Latest round
$10M
Venture round · Mar 2023 · 3 yr ago
Team
51-200
employees, estimated range
Hiring now
1
open roles
Backers
3
PWV, Redpoint Ventures
The money's age
Long since its last round
43 months since the last round · hiring slowed
Momentum
15/100
in the news
Last sign of life
this month
a posting or a news item
The story so fareach stage dated by its source: the company's releases, the press, registers, filings
Apr 29
On the Hacker News front page Zed 1.0 · 2153 points
Aug 14, 2025
On the Hacker News front page Why LLMs can't really build software · 862 points
May 7, 2025
On the Hacker News front page Zed: High-performance AI Code Editor · 747 points
Jul 10, 2024
On the Hacker News front page Zed on Linux Is Here · 923 points
Jan 24, 2024
On the Hacker News front page Zed, a collaborative code editor, is now open source · 1576 points
Mar 15, 2023
Launched on Hacker News Show HN: Zed – A high-performance, multiplayer code editor. Now in public beta
Mar 15, 2023
Raised a round Venture round $10M · TechCrunch
Jun 2021
Website went live first capture in the Wayback Machine
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Funding rounds
| Round | Date | Amount | Investors | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Venture round | Mar 2023 | $10M | — | TechCrunch |
Backed byfrom the funds' portfolios and accelerator catalogs
PWV 
Redpoint Ventures 
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Overview
Zed is a software company building a high-performance multiplayer code editor written in Rust. The editor comes from the creators of Atom and Tree-sitter, and its open source team triages issues, fixes bugs and builds features requested by the user community. The company is based in the United States.
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Replace PRs with Delta - Now in Public Beta
Delta is now in public beta. Replacing pull requests is our first step toward replacing GitHub.
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Xanadu Was Waiting for Agents
Ted Nelson specified the docuverse sixty years ago. The technology finally arrived, and so did its native users.
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Introducing Delta
A multiplayer environment for coding with agents, from the creators of Zed.
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Hidden Gems: Part 4
Favorite workflows and hidden features from the Zed team and community.
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Zed Guild: What We Built, What We Learned
A retrospective on the Zed Guild - what we built with our community contributors, what we learned, and what comes next.
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Software Is Made Between Commits
Agents turned the conversation into the real source of our software. DeltaDB is the version control built for it.
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What GitHub Copilot's Usage-Based Billing Means for Zed Users
Copilot Chat is now metered with GitHub AI Credits. Copilot edit predictions are not.
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Terminal Threads Are Live in Zed
Run Claude Code, Amp, or any terminal agent as threads in Zed's sidebar.
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Why and How to Run Local Models in Zed
You can run local AI models in Zed to get better performance and control over your data. Here's how.
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Tech stack
Technologies named in job postings at Zed over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
4
Postings analysed
2
Stack modernity
85/100
Languages
Rust
Cloud & platforms
GitHub
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Git
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Growth
Hiring Momentum
46/100
Stable
Open positions
1
0 opened / 0 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
63 days
faster than 21% of the market
ATS activity
Every ~4 hours
Today
Hiring Dynamics
+100%
Hiring Focus
The percentage next to each role is its share of the company's job openings over the last 90 days; the arrow shows the shift versus the previous period.
Design
100% ▼
Activity Timeline
Added GitHub to stack
Sep 2026
Financials
Total raised
$10M
Latest round
Venture - Series Unknown
Funding rounds
1
Funding rounds
| Round | Announced | Amount | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Venture - Series Unknown | 2023 | $10M | Details |