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Zoho company history timeline

2000

A VC approached them in 2000, which required them to exit and liquidate at the end of 7 years but it was stopped soon because Sridhar and Tony were in no way seeing everything come down after toiling that hard.

2001

AdventNet expanded operations into Japan in 2001.

2003

ManageEngine, a premier IT ops suite for middle market and enterprise customers, was launched in 2003, which soon started to work with a list of companies, over 60% of which had its name in the Fortune 500 list then.

2005

Zoho CRM - Released in 2005.

Google Docs was eventually launched in 2005, and he pivoted again.

2006

Zoho Creator, our most powerful application, was launched in March 2006.

2007

The company actually had 600 engineers with them in 2007, when Salesforce, the market leader, had only 100 engineers.

Zoho expanded into the collaboration space with the release of Zoho Docs and Zoho Meeting in 2007.

2008

In 2008, the company added invoicing and mail applications, reaching one million users by August of that year.

Zoho Invoice has come a long way since it originally launched in 2008.

2009

In 2009, the company was renamed Zoho Corporation after its online office suite.

2010

Zoho Desk was born in November 2010 (originally named Zoho Support). It has since grown to be a versatile customer service application for thousands of businesses worldwide.

2013

The company, in fact, resorted to trolling Salesforce in 2013 by crashing their global user conference.

2014

With over 13 million users in 2014, Zoho became one of the largest subscription businesses.

2016

Mobile-first designs for collection, consumption, and collaboration became a reality for many businesses in 2016.

Mobile-first designs for collection, consumption, and collaboration became a reality for many businesses in 2016.SalesInboxZoho SalesInbox was released later that spring as an email client exclusively for salespeople.

2017

The industry's behemoth, Salesforce, expects to reach $8.4 billion in revenues for fiscal 2017.

In 2017, Zoho launched Zoho One, a comprehensive suite of over forty applications.

2020

Zoho reached more than 50 million customers in January 2020.

2021

Renamed as Marketing Automation in May 2021.

As of October 2021, Zoho One has been expanded to 50 applications.

He was awarded the Padma Shri, on the occasion of India's 72nd Republic Day (2021).

2022

According to the latest reports dated February 15, 2022, it has been seen that the company spent Rs 0.58 to earn a single rupee of revenue.

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Founded
1996
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Headquarters
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Founders
Sridhar Vembu,Tony Thomas,Sreenivas Kanumuru
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