Zed Industries is a San Francisco-based company founded in 2021 by Nathan Sobo (CEO), Antonio Scandurra, and Max Brunsfeld, the creators of Atom, Electron, and Tree-sitter. The company's flagship product, Zed, is a high-performance, multiplayer, AI-native code editor built in Rust with GPU acceleration via GPUI. Zed is open source under an Apache-like license since January 2024 and leverages CRDTs, Tree-sitter, and the Language Server Protocol (LSP) for real-time collaborative editing.
Zed Industries has raised over $42 million in funding, including a $12.5 million Series A in March 2023 and a $32 million Series B led by Sequoia Capital in August 2025. The company released Zed 1.0 in April 2026, launched Windows support in October 2025, and introduced Parallel Agents in April 2026. Zed also created the Agent Client Protocol (ACP), an open standard adopted by JetBrains, Google, Cursor, Codex, Claude, and more than 20 other agents and editors. Notable customers include Mercury and Ramp.
