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Zeplin (YC S15) — Deliver on the promise of design

Zeplin is an organized workspace to publish finalized designs, where the entire team can collaborate to ship beautiful products together. We were founded in 2014 and today we are honored to support 5+ million users from thousands of product teams including Apple, Starbucks, Salesforce, Amazon, Microsoft, Audi and many more.

Zeplin is a Y Combinator company in the Summer 2015 batch. Its directory entry describes it as: Deliver on the Promise of Design. The founders listed are Pelin Kenez (Founder/CEO), Ismail Ceylan (Founder/Software Developer), Merih Akar (Founder/Developer) (Y Combinator directory entry, April 27, 2015).

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Zeplin

New accelerator entry · 2015-04-27 · the record

Summer 2015
batch
140
people
Growth
stage
United States of America
region
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BatchSummer 2015
Announced2015-04-27
StageGrowth
StatusActive
Team size140
IndustryB2B
Sub-industryB2B -> Engineering, Product and Design
SectorsDeveloper Tools, SaaS, Design Tools
RegionsUnited States of America, United Kingdom, Turkey, America / Canada, Europe, Middle East and North Africa, Remote, Partly Remote
BasedSan Francisco, CA, USA; London, England, United Kingdom; Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey
HiringNo
Sitehttps://zeplin.io

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Zeplin is an organized workspace to publish finalized designs, where the entire team can collaborate to ship beautiful products together. We were founded in 2014 and today we are honored to support 5+ million users from thousands of product teams including Apple, Starbucks, Salesforce, Amazon, Microsoft, Audi and many more. We’re a Y Combinator startup, also backed by amazing investors like Elad Gil, Mike Maples, Kevin Hale. We’re a distributed crew with offices in San Francisco, Istanbul and London. We're Hiring! Please apply directly on Zeplin's job site: https://zpl.io/jobs

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