Loom
Communicate with video messages, not long meetings.
Founded in 2015 by Shahed Khan, Vinay Hiremath, and Joe Thomas in San Francisco, Loom was built on the idea that most workplace communication is unnecessarily synchronous — we schedule meetings to have conversations that could just as easily be a short video. Loom lets anyone instantly record their screen and webcam and share a link, making communication faster, more personal, and more flexible than text. The product exploded in popularity during the COVID-19 remote work boom. Loom raised at a $1.53 billion valuation in 2021. In 2023, Atlassian acquired Loom for $975 million, integrating it into its suite of team collaboration tools including Jira and Confluence. Today Loom has over 25 million users across 400,000 companies worldwide.
Active Founders
Joe Thomas
Founder / CEO
Joe Thomas is the co-founder and CEO of Loom. He studied economics at the University of Oregon before co-founding Loom with his colleagues after the team experienced the frustrations of asynchronous remote communication firsthand. Joe led Loom through its meteoric rise during the remote work era and navigated its $975 million acquisition by Atlassian in 2023, which validated Loom's position as the leading asynchronous video communication tool for teams.