founded 2008 headquarters tartu estonia boston massachusetts key people jevgeni kabanov founder ceo toomas r mer founder cto products jrebel xrebel jrebel for android revenue 2.5 m 2011 6.5 m 2012 1 number of employees 170 2 website zeroturnaround.com zeroturnaround is a software company founded by jevgeni kabanov and toomas r mer in 2008 . 3 4 contents 1 history 2 products 3 funding 4 acquisitions 5 community 6 notes 7 external links history edit founders jevgeni kabanov and toomas r mer met at it services provider webmedia now known as nortal in tartu estonia and began to work together on the project in 2006 7 . it was spun out as zeroturnaround and funded by webmedia in 2008 9 . the project yielded not only this commercial enterprise but was also the center of kabanov s ph.d. thesis under his advisor jaak vilo head of the institute of computer science at the university of tartu . his thesis title was towards a more productive java ee ecosystem . as of 2014 and according to kabanov the product is in use at 3 500 organizations in 80 countries . 4 5 6 products edit zeroturnaround develops and sells jrebel a java integrated development environment plugin that eliminates the build and redeploy phases of the java ee development cycle . the company refers to this technology as hotpatching or sometimes dynamic app reloading . it also developed liverebel a rollout rollback tool for live applications . 3 7 the technology was based on a proprietary code versioning facility . 8 product was discontinued in 2014 . 9 funding edit the company received seed funding of 0.38 m in 2008 9 from webmedia 4 10 and a series a round in 2011 followed by further investment of 2.7 m in january 2014 both led by bain capital ventures . 11 12 13 14 it borrowed a further 3m in march 2014 from western technology investment . 15 16 acquisitions edit on march 19 2013 zeroturnaround announced they acquired javeleon a software company spun out of the maersk mckinney moeller institute at the university of southern denmark . javeleon makes productivity tools for java developers . 17 18 19 community edit the company hosts rebellabs an area of their website with white papers and other resources for the developer community 20 and virtual java users group vjug . 21 notes edit alspach kyle november 26 2013 . zeroturnaround on hiring spree in boston to grow sales of developer tools . boston business journal . retrieved may 22 2014 . about zeroturnaround . retrieved november 10 2015 . a b eclipsecon boston 2013 zeroturnaround . eclipsecon boston 2013 . eclipsecon boston 2013 . march 25 2013 . retrieved may 23 2014 . a b c aasmae kalev march 5 2013 . call us estonian american how one startup is expanding its us staff its products and its horizons . zd net . retrieved may 22 2014 . zeroturnaround ceo defends phd thesis on boosting productivity in java uptime . university of tartu . august 4 2013 . retrieved may 22 2014 . kabanov jevgeni march 5 2013 . towards a more productive java ee ecosystem . university of tartu . retrieved may 22 2014 . raible matt mar 14 2014 . zeroturnaround q & a an interview with ceo jevgeni kabanov . infoqueue . retrieved may 22 2014 . kabanov jevgeni ; vene varmo january 2014 . a thousand years of productivity the jrebel story . software practice and experience . john wiley & sons ltd. 44 1 105 127 . doi 10.1002 spe .2158 . kabanov jevgeni aug 11 2014 . goodbye liverebel . retrieved nov 28 2014 . deshpande salil february 28 2013 . zeroturnaround . angel.co . retrieved may 23 2014 . anderson greg january 6 2014 . zeroturnaround picks up 1.98 million according to sec filings . articstartup . retrieved may 22 2014 . securities and exchange commission form d notice of exempt offering of securities zeroturnaround inc. . us securities and exchange commission . january 2 2014 . retrieved may 22 2014 . zeroturnaround garners 2 700 000 new financing . january 4 2014 . retrieved may 22 2014 . zeroturnaround . bain capital ventures . september 25 2011 . retrieved may 22 2014 . estonian founded start up zeroturnaround raises usd6 million in funding . estonian world . march 5 2014 . retrieved may 22 2014 . aviva gat march 9 2014 . zeroturnaround raises 6m this year . geektime . retrieved may 23 2014 . zeroturnaround acquires javeleon press release . march 19 2013 . retrieved may 23 2014 . keohane dennis march 19 2013 . zeroturnaround acquires java development tool company javeleon . venturefizz . retrieved may 22 2014 . kantor ira march 19 2013 . zeroturnaround acquires danish company javeleon . boston herald . retrieved may 23 2014 . zeroturnaround rebellabs free technical reports . zeroturnaround . retrieved may 22 2014 . virtual java users group external links edit alspach kyle april 8 2014 . moves in out and around boston tech zeroturnaround and simplivity . betaboston . retrieved may 23 2014 . zeroturnaround . crunchbase . retrieved may 23 2014 . this software company article is a stub . you can help wikipedia by expanding it . v t e retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title zeroturnaround & oldid 698735529 categories software companies of estoniainformation technology companies of estoniasoftware companies based in massachusettscompanies established in 2006estonian brandssoftware company stubshidden categories all stub articles navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages eestiportugu s edit links this page was last modified on 7 january 2016 at 22 39 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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