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Common Room

Complete buyer intelligence that turns intent into pipeline

Common Room is an AI-native go-to-market platform that unifies first-party customer data with real-world buyer signals and acts on it with AI agents. Founded in Seattle in 2020, it agreed on July 2, 2026 to be acquired by Zoom, which announced the availability of Common Room by Zoom on September 15, 2026.

Founded 2020Seattle, Washington, US$52M at its April 2021 launch, per GeekWire; Zoom agreed to acquire Common Room on July 2, 2026 raisedFounders: Linda Lian, Viraj Mody, Francis Luu, Tom Kleinpeter
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DA 93Top outlet authorityTechCrunch
2020FoundedSeattle, Washington, US

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Coverage and campaigns

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  1. TechCrunchDA 93

    Common Room in TechCrunch: Buyer Intelligence That Powers AI Sales Agents

    Targets query: buyer intelligence for AI sales agents

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Topical positioning

Queries we’ve ranked Common Room for

When a buyer or AI engine searches these queries, our placements and campaigns are in the citation set.

  • buyer intelligence for AI sales agents

Why this category

The Common Room story

Common Room's buyers are revenue teams deciding whether the data under their AI agents can be trusted, so the useful checks are what the platform unifies, how it governs agents at scale, and who owns it now.

The checkable facts

Read October 20, 2026 from Common Room's own site, Zoom's announcements and GeekWire.

Fact What the company says Source
What it is “the AI-native go-to-market platform for buyer intelligence and action” Common Room, About
Data foundation “Context360, our buyer intelligence engine that unifies every signal across CRM, product, marketing, and engagement into a single, continuously updated view of every buyer” Common Room
Governance “a configurable Revenue Control Plane with enterprise-grade governance, role-based permissioning, territory management, managed integrations, and full audit trails” Common Room
Contact directory (Common Room's own figure) “a 400M+ contact directory” Common Room
Acquisition Zoom “has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Common Room” Zoom, July 2, 2026
Named customers (Zoom's announcement) GTM teams at “Atlassian, Anthropic, Autodesk, Notion, Okta, and Snowflake” Zoom, July 2, 2026
Founders and launch Founded in 2020 by Linda Lian, Viraj Mody, Francis Luu and Tom Kleinpeter; emerged from stealth in 2021 with $52 million GeekWire, July 2, 2026

The acquisition row is the one a buyer hits first: on September 15, 2026 Zoom announced the availability of Common Room by Zoom, with Linda Lian as GM of Common Room and Zoom Revenue Accelerator at Zoom. AuthorityTech is Common Room's earned-media partner and secured its TechCrunch feature.

Category fit

  • Buyer intelligence
  • Signal-based selling
  • AI sales agents
  • Revenue operations governance

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