What ZettaScale Technology does

ZettaScale Technology is a private software company founded in May 2022 that builds next-generation data-distribution middleware for distributed, real-time systems. Its core technology is Eclipse Zenoh, an open-source publish/subscribe/query protocol written in Rust that unifies data in motion, data at rest, and computation across a cloud-to-device continuum spanning data-centres to micro-controllers, complemented by Cyclone DDS — an OMG-compliant DDS implementation positioned as the most performant and secure in its class. Zenoh delivers benchmarked latency as low as 7 µs and throughput around 60 Gbps, and is the first non-DDS middleware adopted by the ROS 2 community.

The company monetizes this technology through a commercial-open-source model: Zenoh and Cyclone DDS are free under Eclipse licenses, while ZettaScale sells commercial support agreements, training, professional services, and Zetta Platform — a commercial cloud-to-device management layer that provides zero-code deployment, monitoring, and management of Zenoh infrastructure. Distribution is product-led through open-source community engagement (GitHub, Discord, webinars, ROSCon/EclipseCon) augmented by direct enterprise field sales targeting robotics, automotive/SDV, industrial, transportation, and IoT verticals. Named reference customers and partners include ProRail (rail), Lely (agri-robotics), General Motors (automotive, via Eclipse uProtocol), TTTech Auto (SDV), Boeing, NASA, L3HARRIS, GE, Duke Energy, Fujitsu, and QNX, with strategic ecosystem positions inside the Eclipse Foundation, Eclipse SDV, COVESA, and Open Robotics.

The company operates with 11–50 employees across UK (Gateshead legal HQ), France (Saint-Aubin R&D), Netherlands, Taiwan, US, India, and Germany, and is led by CEO/CTO Angelo Corsaro. ZettaScale is venture-backed (no investor or funding details disclosed in available source material) and remains private with no IPO on the horizon based on disclosed information.

Name

ZettaScale Technology

Legal name

ZettaScale Technology Limited

Website

https://zettascale.tech

Company type

Private

Founded year

2022

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

ZettaScale Technology builds Eclipse Zenoh and Cyclone DDS, open-source data-distribution middleware unifying real-time communication from microcontrollers to cloud, and sells commercial support and its Zetta Platform to enterprise customers in robotics, automotive/SDV, industrial, rail, and IoT.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Real-Time Data Distribution Middleware

NAICS

Computing Infrastructure Providers, Data Processing, Web Hosting, and Related Services (5182)

SIC

Services-Computer Programming, Data Processing, Etc. (7370), Services-Computer Integrated Systems Design (7373)

akta.pro primary industry

Cloud Management Platforms (CMP) & Single-Pane-of-Glass Control (HDABABAD)

akta.pro secondary industry

Managed Application Platforms (App PaaS & Runtime Services) (HDABAAAD)

Keywords

• Real-time data distribution
• DDS implementation
• Robotics middleware
• Automotive communication
• Cloud-to-device platform

Headquarters

HQ city

Saint-aubin

HQ country

France

HQ region

Europe

Offices3 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Operations, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Commercial Open Source (Support & Services): ZettaScale provides commercial licensing, training, professional services, and commercial support for Zenoh and Cyclone DDS. Commercial offerings include tools, enhanced testing and hardening beyond what's available in the open source versions. ZettaScale offers commercial support agreements for enterprises requiring SLA-backed assistance, troubleshooting, and dedicated engineering support.
2. Zetta Platform Commercial Licensing: The Zetta Platform is offered as a commercial product for enterprises requiring integrated deployment, monitoring, and management of Zenoh infrastructure. Revenue derived from platform licensing, subscriptions, and professional services for integration and onboarding.
3. Open Source (Community-Driven Adoption): Zenoh and Cyclone DDS are open source under Eclipse licenses, generating indirect revenue through community adoption, ecosystem growth, and eventual enterprise commercial conversions.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion3 records

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels10 records

Core offering

ZettaScale builds next-generation data distribution technology centered on the Eclipse Zenoh protocol — a publish/subscribe/query protocol that unifies data in motion, data at rest, and computation from the data-centre to the micro-controller. The company also maintains Cyclone DDS, an OMG-compliant DDS implementation, and the Zetta Platform, a commercial cloud-to-device continuum platform for provisioning, monitoring, and managing Zenoh infrastructure across public and private infrastructure.

Product overview

ZettaScale Technology offers a unified product portfolio centered around the Zetta Platform (cloud-to-device continuum platform), built upon Zenoh (the core protocol) and complemented by Cyclone DDS (OMG-compliant DDS implementation). The Zetta Platform leverages Zenoh to unify communication, storage, and computation from cloud to micro-controllers, featuring a rich set of storage and protocol plugins including highly optimized ROS1 and ROS2 connectivity. Zenoh serves as the foundational technology powering Zetta, enabling high-performance, scalable, and interoperable distributed systems. Cyclone DDS integrates with Zenoh to provide internet scalability, embedded device support, and database/protocol integration. Additional products include Zenoh-Flow for data flow programming, Zenoh-Pico for constrained devices, and Zenoh Protocol Dissector for Wireshark.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Zenoh: Next generation data distribution protocol from the data-centre to the micro-controller. Unifies data at rest, data in motion, and computations.
• Cyclone DDS
• Vortex OpenSplice
• Zetta Platform

Products and services

• Zetta Platform A commercial cloud-to-device continuum platform that leverages Zenoh to unify communication, storage, and computation from the data-centre to the micro-controller. Provides zero-code secure deployment, monitoring, and management of Zenoh infrastructure, and includes a rich set of storage and protocol plugins with highly optimised ROS1 and ROS2 connectivity. Targeted at enterprise robotics, automotive, and industrial companies.
• Zenoh A next-generation open-source publish/subscribe/query protocol that unifies data in motion, data at rest, and computations from the data-centre to the micro-controller. Supports mesh, peer-to-peer, routed, and brokered communication on any topology with ultra-low latency (~7 µs) and high throughput (~60 Gbps). Licensed under Eclipse and written in Rust, with APIs in Python, Kotlin, Java, TypeScript, C, and C++.
• Cyclone DDS The next-generation, OMG-compliant DDS (Data Distribution Service) implementation built from the ground up using 20+ years of DDS experience. Marketed as the most performant, scalable, and secure OMG DDS implementation, and identified as the only DDS implementation with zero exploitable security vulnerabilities per an independent TrendMicro analysis. Being certified to the highest ISO-26262 levels for automotive and robotics safety-critical environments.
• Zenoh-Flow A native data flow programming framework for Zenoh that simplifies the development of complex data processing pipelines. Organises applications as directed graphs of nodes (computational units) connected by arcs (data streams), and enables complex graph handling with significantly improved execution time. Accepted as an Eclipse SDV project.
• Zenoh-Pico A lightweight, low-overhead, high-performance implementation of Zenoh designed for microcontrollers and extremely constrained embedded devices. Supports Arduino, STM32, and ESP32 platforms, enabling constrained devices to participate in network communication with minimal resource footprint.
• Zenoh Protocol Dissector for Wireshark A Wireshark dissector plugin that allows inspection and understanding of Zenoh packets exchanged in a network. Useful for troubleshooting network problems, examining security issues, verifying network applications, and debugging protocol implementations.
• Vortex OpenSplice The federated, in-memory database OMG-compliant DDS implementation, listed as a ZettaScale sub-brand with the Vortex OpenSplice product available via ADLINK Technology.

Quantifiable outcome

• Zenoh latency reduced to 7 µs; throughput ~5 million msgs/sec (8-byte payloads) and ~60 Gbps (8 Kb payloads)
• +3 more outcomes

Named customers10 records

Segments6 records

Ideal customer profiles5 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

Yes

API docs

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Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration10 records

Feature12 records

Partnerships

Six partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• Eclipse SDV (Software Defined Vehicles)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 September 2023Zenoh has been accepted as part of the Eclipse SDV project. Zenoh-Flow was also independently accepted as an Eclipse SDV project. This positions Zenoh as a key communication protocol for the Eclipse SDV ecosystem, which brings together automotive industry stakeholders to develop open source SDV technologies.
• TTTech AutocoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 6 July 2023ZettaScale and TTTech Auto expanded their collaboration to launch Zetta Auto — described as the industry's most powerful and predictable SDV datacentre communication solution, leveraging DDS and time-sensitive networking (TSN) for software-defined vehicles. This builds on an existing partnership focused on automotive communication standards.
• COVESAcoreTechnology or Integration · 1 July 2023ZettaScale partnered with COVESA to power COVESA VSS (Vehicle Signal Specification) over Eclipse Zenoh and Zetta Platform. Published an article titled 'Unlocking Fleet Efficiency: COVESA VSS powered by Eclipse Zenoh over Zetta Platform' demonstrating the integration.
• Eclipse FoundationcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerZettaScale is a major contributor to Eclipse Zenoh and Eclipse Cyclone DDS, both hosted by the Eclipse Foundation. The company has been a member of the Eclipse family since 2018. The Eclipse Foundation provides governance, IP management, and community infrastructure for ZettaScale's core open source projects.
• Open RoboticscoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerOpen Robotics selected Zenoh as the first non-DDS ROS 2 RMW following a formal evaluation. This partnership positions Zenoh as the alternative middleware for ROS 2, addressing wireless and internet-scale deployment challenges. ZettaScale works closely with Open Robotics and the broader ROS community.
• IntrinsicminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerIntrinsic led a complex evaluation and user survey that recognised Zenoh as the best protocol for robotics in September 2023. This third-party validation reinforced Zenoh's positioning in the robotics market.

Scale indicators10 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Direct peers

• Real-Time Innovations (RTI): RTI is the leading commercial DDS middleware vendor with Connext DDS, serving mission-critical distributed systems in aerospace, defense, automotive, and medical. It is the most direct competitor to ZettaScale's Cyclone DDS in the DDS middleware market, with similar target customers (OEMs, Tier 1s, defense primes) and similar positioning around functional safety certifications.
• ADLINK Technology: ADLINK acquired and maintains Vortex OpenSplice, an OMG-compliant DDS implementation that is listed as a sub-brand on ZettaScale's own website. ADLINK is a direct DDS middleware peer competing for industrial IoT, edge computing, and automotive workloads, with a broader hardware portfolio but overlapping DDS software offering.
• eProsima: eProsima maintains Fast DDS, which is the default DDS implementation used by ROS 2 and the direct incumbent that Zenoh displaces as the first non-DDS ROS 2 middleware. eProsima competes head-to-head with Cyclone DDS in the ROS ecosystem and is the most direct technology peer in robotics middleware.

Emerging players

• HiveMQ: HiveMQ provides enterprise MQTT brokers for IoT messaging and is comparable because Zenoh's MQTT plugin interoperates with MQTT brokers like HiveMQ. Both compete for the same IoT messaging workloads across industrial and connected-device verticals.
• EMQX: EMQX is an open-source MQTT broker and IoT messaging platform with significant adoption in IoT and IIoT. It overlaps with Zenoh on pub/sub messaging for connected devices and competes for the same IoT communications infrastructure use cases.
• ClearBlade: ClearBlade is an edge computing platform for industrial IoT that competes in the edge-to-cloud orchestration space where Zetta Platform operates. It targets similar industrial, transportation, and smart-city use cases with comparable messaging and management functionality.

Broad incumbents

• Confluent: Confluent, the commercial vendor behind Apache Kafka, is a broader incumbent in distributed data streaming. While Kafka targets log/event streaming at scale and Zenoh targets low-latency pub/sub for robotics/automotive, both compete for data-in-motion workloads in industrial and IoT environments.
• AWS IoT Core: AWS IoT Core provides managed cloud services for IoT device connectivity, messaging, and management — overlapping with Zetta Platform's cloud-to-device management positioning. As a hyperscaler incumbent, AWS competes for the same enterprise IoT and edge-to-cloud workloads at much larger scale.
• Microsoft Azure IoT: Microsoft Azure IoT Hub and Azure IoT Edge provide managed IoT connectivity, device management, and edge computing capabilities comparable to Zetta Platform's cloud-to-device continuum. Azure competes in industrial, automotive, and SDV use cases where ZettaScale also plays.

Others

• Intrinsic (Alphabet): Intrinsic is Alphabet's industrial robotics software subsidiary that conducted the formal evaluation and user survey recognizing Zenoh as the best protocol for robotics. While not a direct middleware competitor, Intrinsic is a significant ecosystem actor whose standards choices influence adoption of Zenoh vs. competing middleware.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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Number of profiles

Profiles10 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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