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Zego

5 known investors

zego.im

ZEGO provides real-time audio and video interaction technology through developer APIs and SDKs, including a real-time audio engine, AI-driven audio/video algorithms, AI beauty filters, cloud speech recognition, cloud recording, and interactive whiteboards. Its offerings support scenarios such as live streaming, online education, video customer service, telemedicine, AI companions, video conferencing, and IoT communication.

Also known as ZEGO · ZEGOCLOUD · ZEGO即构科技 · 即构科技

Investors · 5

Also in the syndicate · 1

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Funding

SEC filings, press & company announcements

$28M disclosed across 1 round · 2026

Source: company announcements and press reports — follow each round's link for the claim.

Company profile

researched Aug 2026

ZEGO (即构科技, zego.im) supplies real-time interactive communication infrastructure that companies embed into their own applications through SDKs and APIs. Its core product line covers real-time audio and video calling (1-to-1 and multi-party), real-time voice for in-app voice chat rooms, ultra-low-latency live streaming for showroom and event broadcasts, and instant messaging (ZIM) supporting one-to-one chat, group chat, communities, chat rooms and call invitations. Around these it sells extension services including AI beauty filters, a collaborative super whiteboard, a cloud player, cloud recording, local/server-side recording, an application compliance service, and 'Xingtu' (星图), an audio/video quality operations platform for monitoring user experience. A 'Purio' AI audio engine and an audio/video algorithm demonstration suite are presented as underlying core technology, and a cloud marketplace resells third-party capabilities such as content moderation, AI voice changing and real-time translation.

A second, more recent product cluster targets generative-AI interaction: a real-time interactive AI Agent (text chat, voice calls and digital-human video calls with an AI), a digital human API, and cloud real-time speech recognition for live subtitles and transcription. Marketed AI scenarios include AI spoken-language practice partners, AI companions, AI customer service, AI teaching assistants and digital-human co-teachers for large online classes, AI meeting assistants, AI anchors with voice cloning, AI toys and smart speakers, AI voice games, AI interviewers and AI-generated live-room summaries. The company also ships UIKits (call, live streaming, voice chat room, IM) that bundle user interface components for faster integration.

ZEGO packages these capabilities into vertical solutions for social entertainment (voice chat rooms, showroom live streaming, online KTV with licensed music, game voice, event broadcasting), online education (K12, quality/STEM education, vocational training, online examinations, music, art and programming instruction), collaborative work (video conferencing, venue broadcasting, remote recruitment, corporate training), internet finance (dual recording for compliance, remote signing, financial live streaming, digital-human customer service), healthcare (text and video consultation, medical training, surgery demonstration), e-commerce livestream selling, cross-border/overseas expansion for entertainment apps, and IoT/hardware use cases such as access control, smart speakers, drones, in-vehicle video and smart watches.

Compiled by commissioned research from 8 cited public sources — announcements, filings, and press listed under research sources below.

Key figures

latest reported
Core network nodesJan 2026500 nodes
Countries and regions coveredJan 2026212
End users reachedJan 2026500,000,000 end users
Enterprise customersJan 20264,000 customers
Public GitHub repositoriesJan 202675 repositories
Years of audio/video technology accumulationJan 202620 years

Company-reported or press-reported figures, each dated to when it was claimed — not independently audited.

Timeline · 5

launches, deals, and filings
Jul 2025
Cloud real-time speech recognition launched

Cloud-based real-time speech recognition made generally available, supporting live subtitles and AI-audience scenarios.

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Jul 2025
'ZEGO ten years together' anniversary promotion

A ten-year anniversary campaign offering limited-time pricing on core products, indicating roughly a decade of operation.

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Jun 2025
ZIM community (Community) capability released

The ZIM instant messaging product added community functionality.

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May 2025
Real-time audio/video Linux SDK adds multi-instance support

Linux-side real-time audio and video support for multiple instances, increasing concurrency capability.

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Apr 2025
AI Agent 2.0 released

ZEGO announced AI Agent 2.0, enabling text messaging and real-time calls with AI agents.

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Dated company events from announcements, filings, and press; legal rows summarize public dockets and regulator releases.

In the news

Research sources · 8

primary sources listed

8 public sources were cited for this profile; the first-party ones are listed here.

Frequently asked questions

What does Zego do?
Chinese provider of real-time audio, video, live streaming and in-app messaging SDKs/APIs, now extended to AI agent interaction.
Who are Zego's investors?
Zego's investors include Qiming Venture Partners, DST Global, General Catalyst, LocalGlobe.
How much funding has Zego raised?
Zego has disclosed $28M raised across 1 round.