When was Zilliz founded?

Zilliz was founded in 2017 and raised its 1st funding round within a year of its incorporation.

Where is Zilliz located?

Zilliz is headquartered in San Francisco, United States.

Who is the current CEO of Zilliz?

Charles Xie of Zilliz. They have also founded 1 company.

How many employees does Zilliz have?

As of Mar 31, 2026, the latest employee count at Zilliz is 139.

Is Zilliz a funded company?

Zilliz is a funded company, having raised a total of $113M across 4 funding rounds to date. The company's 1st funding round was a $***** Seed round, raised on Aug 2017.

When was the latest funding round of Zilliz?

Zilliz's latest funding was a $***** Series B round on Aug 24, 2022, with participation from 6 investors.

Where does Zilliz rank among its competitors?

Zilliz ranks 6th amongst 158 active competitors, of which 28 are funded. It stands 5th in terms of total funding among its competitors. The most recent competitor to raise funding was Supabase, which secured $100M in Oct, 2025.

Who are the top competitors of Zilliz?

Zilliz's top competitors include Redis, YugabyteDB and GridGain. Among them, Supabase secured the most recent funding round in October, 2025.

Zilliz - 2026 Company Profile, Team, Funding & Competitors

Zilliz is a series B company based in San Francisco (United States), founded in 2017 by Charles Xie. It operates as a Provider of a vector similarity search engine and data processing platform. Zilliz has raised $113M in funding from investors like Aramco Ventures, 5Y Capital and Prosperity7 Ventures. The company has 158 active competitors, including 28 funded and 12 that have exited. Its top competitors include companies like Redis, YugabyteDB and GridGain.

Company Details

Zilliz provides a vector similarity search engine and data processing platform. The company is developing an open source data science software that uses artificial intelligence technology. The company works on heterogeneous computing platforms and supports processors like x86, ARM, GPU, and TPU, and across various other platforms like cloud, edge, and endpoint.

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Key Metrics

Founded Year

2017

Location

San Francisco, United States

Stage

Series B

Total Funding

$113M in 4 rounds

Latest Funding Round

Series B, Aug 24, 2022, $*****

Investors

Aramco Ventures & 13 more

Ranked

6^th among 158 active competitors

Employee Count

139 as on Mar 31, 2026

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Zilliz is associated with 1 legal entity given below:

Legal Entity Name	Date of Incorporation	Revenue	Latest Employee Count	Documents
Zilliz Inc. CIN: 6975256 , United States, Active	Aug 18, 2022	-	-	-

Zilliz has raised a total funding of $113M over 4 rounds. Its first funding round was on Aug 2017. Its latest funding round was a Series B round on Aug 24, 2022 for $*****. 6 investors participated in its latest round. Zilliz has 14 institutional investors.

Here is the list of recent funding rounds of Zilliz:

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Date of Funding	Funding Amount	Round Name	Post-Money Valuation	Revenue Multiple	Lead Investors	Other Investors
Aug 24, 2022	5457221	Series B	1506596	6420809	3686002	8127201
Nov 13, 2020	9455173	Series B	8100984	8263296	8716166	Trust Capital & 3 more
Jan 2018	8973374	Series A	9534359	4051698	5Y Capital	Green Pine Capital Partners & 2 more

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The founders of Zilliz is Charles Xie. Charles Xie is the CEO of Zilliz.

Here are the details of Zilliz's key team members:

Charles Xie: Founder & CEO of Zilliz.

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Zilliz's employee count trend

Zilliz has 139 employees as of Mar 26. Here is Zilliz's employee count trend over the years:

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Top competitors of Zilliz include Redis, YugabyteDB and GridGain. Here is the list of Top 10 competitors of Zilliz, ranked by Tracxn score:

Rank	Company Details	Short Description	Total Funding	Investors	Tracxn Score
1st	Redis 2011, Mountain View (United States), Series G	Cloud based in memory database platform	$355M	Bain Capital Ventures, Viola Group & 15 others	71/100
2nd	YugabyteDB 2016, Sunnyvale (United States), Series C	Open source cloud native database for enterprises	$291M	Lightspeed Venture Partners, Sapphire Ventures ... & 11 others	69/100
3rd	GridGain 2007, Foster City (United States), Series B	Developer of a unified platform for data storage and processing	$33.4M	Almaz Capital, Fort Ross Ventures & 5 others	66/100
4th	Voltron Data 2021, Mountain View (United States), Series A	Apache arrow ecosystem for accelerating analytical tools	$110M	Walden Catalyst, BlackRock & 12 others	64/100
5th	Prisma 2016, San Francisco (United States), Series B	Backend platform based on GraphQL to build scalable applications	$56.5M	Altimeter Capital, Amplify Partners & 13 others	62/100
6th	Zilliz 2017, San Francisco (United States), Series B	Provider of a vector similarity search engine and data processing platform	$113M	5Y Capital, Beyond Ventures & 12 others	59/100
6th	Supabase 2020, Singapore (Singapore), Series E	Cloud based open-source application backend development platform	$501M	Accel, Peak XV Partners & 17 others	62/100
8th	Dragonfly 2022, Tel Aviv (Israel), Series A	Provider of a platform offering in memory database	$21M	Quiet Capital, Redpoint Ventures	55/100
9th	Volt Active Data 2009, Bedford (United States), Series C	Provider of an IoT data management platform	$48.6M	Kepha Partners, Sigma Partners & 1 others	55/100
10th	TDengine 2017, Los Gatos (United States), Series B	Cloud based platform offering time series relational SQL solutions	$47M	Matrix Partners China, HSG & 2 others	54/100