Zscaler () is a

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company, with headquarters in

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. The company offers cloud migration services.

History

Zscaler was founded in 2007 by

Jay Chaudhry Jay Chaudhry (born 1958) is an Indian-American billionaire entrepreneur and the CEO and founder of cloud security company Zscaler. Early life Chaudhry was born in Panoh, a village in Una district of the state of Himachal Pradesh, India. His par ...

and K. Kailash. In August 2012, Zscaler secured $38 million in funding from strategic

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. In March 2018, the company had an

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in which it raised $192 million. The company is traded on the

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using the symbol ZS. Zscaler stock was added to the Nasdaq 100 on December 17, 2021. As of July 2021 Zscaler has over 275 issued and pending patents.

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