Zeiss

Developer and producer of high tech eyeware and lenses and also provides solutions for biomedical research and medical devices .

Launch date

1846

Employees

Market cap

Enterprise valuation

$5.6b (Public information from Sep 2024)

Oberkochen Baden-Württemberg (HQ), Jena Thuringia (founding location)

http://zeiss.de

https://twitter.com/carl_zeiss https://www.facebook.com/zeissgroup https://www.linkedin.com/company/zeiss https://apps.apple.com/app/id1088738935 https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.appzeiss

Revenues, earnings & profits over time

EUR	2020	2021	2022	2023	2024	2025	2026
Revenues	1.3b	1.6b	1.9b	2.1b	2.1b	2.3b	2.5b
% growth	-	23 %	16 %	10 %	(1 %)	11 %	8 %
EBITDA	267m	410m	483m	502m	326m	449m	528m
% EBITDA margin	20 %	25 %	25 %	24 %	16 %	19 %	21 %
Profit	122m	236m	294m	290m	163m	228m	280m
% profit margin	9 %	14 %	15 %	14 %	8 %	10 %	11 %
EV / revenue	6.7x	8.5x	4.6x	3.2x	3.1x	2.7x	2.5x
EV / EBITDA	33.5x	34.2x	18.3x	13.3x	19.6x	14.0x	11.7x
R&D budget	219m	232m	291m	349m	-	-	-
R&D % of revenue	16 %	14 %	15 %	17 %	-	-	-

Source: Dealroom estimates

Date	Investors	Amount	Round
Jan 2011	N/A	N/A	IPO
Jun 2018	Innovation Connections	AUD50.0k	Grant
Total Funding		$32.4k

Tech stackLearn more about the technologies and tools that this company uses.

By Country

United States 6 Germany 6 United Kingdom 2 Switzerland 1 Netherlands 1 Poland 1 Belgium 1

By Industry

Health 9 Semiconductors 4 Media 1 Fashion 1 Robotics 1 Transportation 1

By Round

ACQUISITION 10 SERIES A 3 SEED 2 LATE VC 1 EARLY VC 1

Aaren Scientific

ACQUISITION by Zeiss Jan 2014

ACQUISITION by Zeiss Jul 2013

Dutch Ophthalmic Research Center

ACQUISITION by Zeiss Dec 2023

ACQUISITION by Zeiss Jun 2015

Ncam Technologies

ACQUISITION by Zeiss Jul 2023

ACQUISITION by Zeiss Apr 2018

Bridger Photonics

ACQUISITION by Zeiss Jan 2023