Loom
Headquarters
San Francisco, CAFounded
2015CEO / Founder
Joe ThomasEmployees
201-500Funding
Acquired — $203MProducts
1 product listedAvg. AI Score
7.3/10Website
loom.com
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About Loom
Loom operates a video messaging platform that enables users to record, share, and view screen recordings and webcam videos for workplace communication. The company was founded in 2015 by Joe Thomas, Shahed Khan, and Vinay Hiremath and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.
The platform allows users to capture their screen, voice, and face simultaneously to create video messages that can be shared via links. Loom serves over 21 million users across companies including HubSpot, Atlassian, and Netflix, with use cases spanning sales demonstrations, product tutorials, bug reports, and team updates. The service processes over 8 million videos monthly.
Loom raised approximately $203 million across multiple funding rounds, including a $130 million Series C in 2021 that valued the company at $1.53 billion. In October 2023, Atlassian announced its acquisition of Loom for approximately $975 million. The company employed around 350 people at the time of acquisition.
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Competitive Landscape
Who Loom competes with, and how they differ.
Vidyard is Loom's closest pure-play rival in async video messaging, built for sales and marketing teams with deeper CRM/HubSpot integrations and video analytics, while Loom skews toward general workplace and engineering communication and is now embedded in Atlassian's Jira/Confluence workflows.
Zoom bundles free async video recording (Zoom Clips) into its broader video-conferencing and phone suite, undercutting Loom on price for teams already paying for Zoom, whereas Loom is a dedicated async-video product now tied to Atlassian's dev-and-work-management stack.
1 product reviewed on TopReviewedWistia's Soapbox targets sales and marketing teams recording pitch and demo videos with built-in hosting and viewer analytics for external audiences, while Loom is built primarily for internal workplace and engineering communication.
Microsoft Teams offers video clips and Stream recordings as a feature bundled into its Office 365 suite rather than a standalone product, competing on bundled pricing and enterprise lock-in against Loom's dedicated, Atlassian-integrated tool.
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Key milestones in Loom's history, with sources.
- Acquisition
Atlassian completes acquisition of Loom
Atlassian announced it had closed its purchase of Loom, folding the async video-messaging platform into its collaboration suite alongside Jira and Confluence.
atlassian.com - Acquisition
Atlassian agrees to acquire Loom for nearly $1 billion
Atlassian announced a deal to acquire video-messaging startup Loom in a transaction reported at approximately $975 million.
reuters.com - Funding
Series C — $130M led by Andreessen Horowitz, $1.53B valuation
Loom raised a $130 million Series C led by Andreessen Horowitz, reaching a $1.53 billion valuation and unicorn status.
a16z.com - Funding
Series B extension — $28.75M led by Sequoia Capital and Coatue, $350M valuation
Loom raised a $28.75 million extension to its Series B led by Sequoia Capital and Coatue Management at a reported $350 million valuation.
forbes.com - Funding
Series B — $30M led by Sequoia Capital
Loom raised a $30 million Series B led by Sequoia Capital, bringing its total funding to $45 million since its 2016 launch.
globalventuring.com - Funding
Series A — ~$11M led by Kleiner Perkins
Loom closed an approximately $11 million Series A round led by Kleiner Perkins.
finsmes.com - Funding
Seed round — $600K led by 1517 Fund
Loom raised a $600,000 seed round led by 1517 Fund shortly after launching its screen-recording Chrome extension.
en.wikipedia.org - Founded
Loom founded in San Francisco
Loom was founded in San Francisco by Joe Thomas, Vinay Hiremath, and Shahed Khan.
en.wikipedia.org
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