# Loom

> Loom is an Atlassian-owned video communication platform for recording and sharing screen-and-camera messages, collaborating through comments, and turning recordings into summaries, documentation and meeting notes. It serves distributed teams, educators, sales and support staff, and software teams across the world.

- **Founded:** 2016
- **Headquarters:** San Francisco, United States
- **Founders:** Joe Thomas (Co-founder and founding CEO), Vinay Hiremath (Co-founder and founding CTO), Shahed Khan (Co-founder)
- **Products:** Loom video messaging, Loom Desktop, Loom AI, Loom AI for meetings, AI bug reporting
- **Notable:** Launched its standalone recorder on Product Hunt on June 30, 2016., Raised a $130 million Series C in 2021., Acquired by Atlassian, closing November 30, 2023.

## Products & services

- **Loom video messaging** — Screen, camera and microphone recording with hosted share links, comments, reactions, transcripts and captions.
- **Loom Desktop** — Native Mac and Windows recorder introduced alongside Loom Pro.
- **Loom AI** — AI titles, summaries, chapters, editing and video-to-text workflows; features depend on subscription.
- **Loom AI for meetings** — Meeting recording, emailed recaps and AI notes in Confluence for eligible linked accounts.
- **AI bug reporting** — Chrome extension captures technical context and generates Jira work items from recordings.

## Achievements

- Launched its standalone recorder on Product Hunt on June 30, 2016.
- Raised a $130 million Series C in 2021.
- Acquired by Atlassian, closing November 30, 2023.
- Exceeded $100 million in standalone ARR by Atlassian’s Q1 FY2026 report.

## Latest updates

- **2026-08** — Atlassian cloud release notes describe Loom screenshot rich previews in Confluence and Jira.
- **2026-06** — Atlassian began rolling out recurring-meeting connections to Jira spaces, with suggested work item updates for review.
- **2026-03** — Loom announced enhanced bug reports with browser, device, network and console context for Jira work items.
- **2026-02** — Loom meeting action items gained a Send to Trello Inbox option.

## Links

- Website: https://www.loom.com/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/useloom/
- Twitter/X: https://x.com/useloom
- GitHub: https://github.com/loomhq
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/useloom

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