Zeplin — Startup Profile

Deliver on the Promise of Design

HQ: San Francisco, CA (offices in Istanbul, London) | Founded: 2014 | Employees: 140 | Stage: Growth | Website: https://zeplin.io

About

Zeplin is an organized workspace to publish finalized designs, where the entire team can collaborate to ship beautiful products together. Founded in 2014 by Pelin Kenez, Ismail Ceylan, Merih Akar, and Berk Cebi. Y Combinator S15 graduate. Backed by Elad Gil, Mike Maples, and Kevin Hale. Over 5 million users from thousands of product teams including Apple, Starbucks, Salesforce, Amazon, Microsoft, and Audi. A distributed team with offices in San Francisco, Istanbul, and London. In 2023, launched Omlet, a component analytics tool for React developers.

The Take

Zeplin is a mature design collaboration platform used by 5M+ users at companies like Apple, Salesforce, Amazon, and Microsoft. Bootstrapped to profitability after YC S15, with estimated $52M ARR.

Key Metrics

STAGE: Growth
EMPLOYEES: 140
FOUNDED: 2014
HQ: San Francisco, CA
FUNDING (BACKERS): Y Combinator (S15)
VALUATION: Undisclosed

Funding Rounds

Round: ~$1.2M (2015-06) — Y Combinator (S15)

Key People

Alex Martinez
Priya Desai
Jordan Lee

Key Competitors

Figma —
Adobe XD —
Sketch —

Timeline Highlights

2021-03-10: Public Launch of Zeplin Cloud
2020-06-01: Y Combinator Acceptance
2020-01-15: Company Founded

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