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title: "ZeniMax Media: AI company profile, people and coverage"
description: "ZeniMax Media Inc. is an American video game holding company based in Rockville, Maryland."
canonical: https://monitor.paciva.ai/company-zenimax-media
type: Organization
wikidata: Q189557
wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZeniMax_Media
website: https://www.zenimax.com
source: AI News Monitor
publisher: Paciva
license: CC BY 4.0 for this page's own layer; facts from Wikidata (CC0 1.0)
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# ZeniMax Media

> ZeniMax Media Inc. is an American video game holding company based in Rockville, Maryland.

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## Facts

- Category: Artificial intelligence
- Country: United States
- Founded: 1999-05-26
- Headquarters: Rockville
- Status: subsidiary
- Website: https://www.zenimax.com
- Employees: 1,500 (as of 2017-01-01)
- Also known as: ZeniMax Media Inc.
- Industries: video game industry

## Key people

- Robert A. Altman, founder (American businessman (1947-2021))
- Christopher Weaver, founder (American entrepreneur, author, software developer, scientist, and educator at MIT)
- Robert Trump (American businessman (1948–2020))

## Funding rounds

From Form D notices filed with the SEC. An amount sold is what the filing reports at the time of filing, not a valuation.

- 2017-05-26: Form D, USD 900 thousand sold of a USD 900 thousand offering, 6 investors ([filing](https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1092835/000109283517000002/))
- 2017-05-26: Form D/A, USD 6.6 million sold of a USD 6.6 million offering, 13 investors ([filing](https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1092835/000109283517000001/))
- 2016-04-27: Form D/A, USD 6.6 million sold of a USD 6.6 million offering, 13 investors ([filing](https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1092835/000109283516000004/))
- 2016-04-22: Form D, USD 5.7 million sold of a USD 5.7 million offering, 7 investors ([filing](https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1092835/000109283516000003/))
- 2016-03-16: Form D, USD 4.5 million sold of a USD 4.5 million offering, 11 investors ([filing](https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1092835/000109283516000002/))
- 2015-06-12: Form D, USD 1.2 million sold of a USD 1.2 million offering, 6 investors ([filing](https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1092835/000109283515000001/))
- 2014-05-02: Form D, USD 1.2 million sold of a USD 1.2 million offering, 6 investors ([filing](https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1092835/000109283514000001/))
- 2013-11-21: Form D, USD 1.2 million sold of a USD 1.2 million offering, 6 investors ([filing](https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1092835/000109283513000001/))
- 2012-05-08: Form D, USD 2.1 million sold of a USD 2.1 million offering, 6 investors ([filing](https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1092835/000109283512000002/))
- 2012-01-06: Form D, USD 2.1 million sold of a USD 2.1 million offering, 6 investors ([filing](https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1092835/000109283512000001/))
- 2010-10-08: Form D/A, USD 150 million sold of a USD 150 million offering, 2 investors ([filing](https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1092835/000109283510000004/))
- 2010-10-08: Form D, USD 150 million sold of a USD 150 million offering, 2 investors ([filing](https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1092835/000109283510000003/))
- 2010-03-23: Form D/A, USD 17.6 million sold of a USD 17.9 million offering, 11 investors ([filing](https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1092835/000109283510000002/))
- 2010-02-26: Form D, USD 1.8 million sold of a USD 2.2 million offering, 5 investors ([filing](https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1092835/000109283510000001/))
- 2009-07-07: Form D, USD 105 million sold of a USD 105 million offering, 7 investors ([filing](https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1092835/000109283509000004/))

## Ownership

Parent: Xbox
Subsidiaries: id Software, Arkane Studios, Bethesda Softworks, Bethesda Game Studios, ZeniMax Online Studios, Bethesda Game Studios Austin, MachineGames, Tango Gameworks, ZeniMax Europe, ZeniMax Asia

## Products

- Fallout
- The Elder Scrolls

## Coverage on the Monitor

Every article, podcast, video and market the Monitor holds on ZeniMax Media, dated and linked to its publisher: https://monitor.paciva.ai/company-zenimax-media#connections

## Sources

- Facts: Wikidata (CC0 1.0), https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q189557, read 2026-11-11
- Summary: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZeniMax_Media
- Filings: SEC EDGAR, https://www.sec.gov/cgi-bin/browse-edgar?action=getcompany&CIK=0001092835

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