ZoomInfo

Zoom Information Inc.

Type	Private
Industry	Software as a Service
Predecessor	Eliyon Technologies
Founded	2000
Founder	Yonatan Stern
Headquarters	Waltham, MA, United States
Number of employees	100-200
Subsidiaries	Bizo (sold to LinkedIn in 2014)
Website	www.zoominfo.com

ZoomInfo is a subscription-based software as a service (SaaS) company based in Waltham, Massachusetts that sells access to its database of information about business people and companies to sales, marketing and recruiting professionals. The company was originally established in 2000 as Eliyon Technologies by founder and CEO, Yonatan Stern.

Zoom Information Inc. (ZoomInfo) was founded by Yonatan Stern in 2000 as Eliyon Technologies. The company’s investors include Venrock Associates, Ascent Venture partners, Commonwealth Capital Ventures, Flagship Ventures and Vulcan Capital.

Zoominfo is a database marketing company. In Zoominfo's original business model, it sold access to its database of information about business people; its initial customers were human resources professionals, and people interested in targeting ads to business people and tracking their responses. In 2005 it said had information on about 25 million people and 1.5 million companies; by 2007 it said it had information on about 40 million people.

Zoominfo acquired and maintains its database by copying data from the internet using a proprietary web crawler called NextGenSearchBot, analyzing the copied data to extract information, and storing the information in a database.

Part of the company's business model involves copying contents of web pages and storing them on its servers, and according to patent attorney Gene Quinn who runs the IPwatchdog intellectual property blog, this activity violates copyright law.

Zoominfo's competitors are sites such as Linkedin, BoardEx, InsideView, Lead411, LeadGenius, Leadiro, and Hoovers.