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36-463: CEO Vlad Shmunis and CTO Vlad Vendrow founded the company in 1999. Investors included Doug Leone , Sequoia Capital , Khosla Ventures , Scale Venture Partners , and DAG Ventures . It completed its IPO in 2013. RingCentral founders Shmunis and Vendrow previously worked together at RingZero Systems, where Shmunis was founder/CEO and Vendrow was director of engineering. RingZero was focused on small business communications on Microsoft Windows. The company

72-534: A bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering from Cornell University in 1979, a master's in industrial engineering from Columbia University 's School of Engineering and Applied Science in 1986, and a master's degree in management from the MIT Sloan School of Management in 1988 as a Sloan Fellow. Leone began his career in sales and management positions at Sun Microsystems , Hewlett-Packard , and Prime Computer . He joined Sequoia Capital in 1988, became

108-712: A general partner in Sequoia's existing funds. Leone is a backer of America PAC which supports the Donald Trump 2024 presidential campaign . Leone is a board member for several companies, including ActionIQ, Cyera, Island, Nubank , strongDM , Trade Republic , and Wiz . Leone is married to Patricia Perkins-Leone. The couple has four children, and lives in Atherton, California . They have been seeking to build an oceanfront home in Makena , Maui, Hawaii, but as of November 2017,

144-554: A managing partner in 1996, and then the global managing partner in 2012. In 2017, Forbes named him a top-10 investor in the technology industry in the United States. Leone has been involved in Sequoia investments in numerous companies, including Aruba Networks , Hyperion/Arbor Software , International Network Services , Medallia , Netezza , PlanGrid , Rackspace , RingCentral , and ServiceNow . He also led Sequoia's international expansion into China and India. In 2017, he

180-1056: A political party. The city is served by the Belmont Public Library of the San Mateo County Libraries , a member of the Peninsula Library System . The city has a number of parks. This includes Twin Pines Park, Waterdog Lake Open Space, Semeria Park and Davey Glen Park . Child education is provided by public and private facilities. Students in Belmont are eligible to receive public schooling through two school districts: Belmont-Redwood Shores School District ( kindergarten through middle school ) and Sequoia Union High School District ( high school ). There are also several private schools. The private Charles Armstrong School specializes in language-based learning differences, such as dyslexia . The city's largest hotel

216-750: A provider of online audience engagement technology, in August 2023. RingCentral’s integrated platform allows for compatibility throughout its product lines. For example, MVP ( UC ) can be used in tandem with RingCentral’s Contact Center ( CaaS ). It provides a cloud -based business phone system with PBX features such as multiple extensions, call control; Outlook, Salesforce, Google Docs , DropBox and Box integration; SMS; video conferencing and web conferencing; fax; auto-receptionist; call logs; and rule-based call routing and answering. Unlike most cloud-based technologies, business customers are not required to invest capital or purchase maintenance contracts. RingCentral Office

252-422: Is Hyatt House, which is an apartment hotel and caters mostly to a business clientele, due to its proximity to Oracle headquarters. In January 2009, Belmont adopted an ordinance that bans smoking in city parks, all businesses, and all multi-story apartments and condominiums. The policy, which has been described as perhaps the strictest anti-smoking law in the nation, was the result of a group of retirees lobbying

288-471: Is a cloud-based PBX system for businesses. RingCentral Office features include call auto-attendant, company directory, call forwarding and handling, multiple extensions, a mobile app for iPhone and Android, Business SMS, video conferencing and screen-sharing, and fax. In June 2015, RingCentral acquired Glip, a persistent workstream collaboration platform that adds team messaging, document sharing, task and event management, and other collaboration functionality to

324-504: Is an American billionaire venture capitalist and former managing partner of Sequoia Capital , from which role he stepped aside in 2022 while remaining a general partner. As of August 2022, his net worth was estimated at US$ 6.1 billion. Leone was born July 4, 1957, in Genoa , Italy. His family moved to the United States when Leone was 11 and settled in Mount Vernon, New York . Leone earned

360-634: Is believed to derive from the Italian bel monte , meaning "beautiful mountain." The town was named for the "symmetrically rounded eminence" nearby. Belmont is located at 37°31′5″N 122°17′30″W  /  37.51806°N 122.29167°W  / 37.51806; -122.29167 (37.518087, -122.291673). According to the United States Census Bureau , the city has a land area of 4.63 square miles (12.0 km ) and 0.009 square miles (0.023 km ) of water. Belmont's population in 2020

396-473: The 2010 census Belmont had a population of 25,835. The population density was 5,579.8 inhabitants per square mile (2,154.4/km ). The racial makeup of Belmont was 17,455 (67.6%) White, 420 (1.6%) African American, 72 (0.3%) Native American, 5,151 (19.9%) Asian, 198 (0.8%) Pacific Islander, 964 (3.7%) from other races, and 1,572 (6.1%) from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 2,977 persons (11.5%). The census reported that 25,321 people (98.0% of

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432-597: The Belmont – Redwood Shores School District (BRSSD) . The public high school in Belmont, Carlmont High School , however, is in Sequoia Union High School District . SamTrans provides local bus service within Belmont as well as the entire county of San Mateo. Caltrain provides commuter rail service on the San Francisco Peninsula between San Francisco and San Jose including Belmont station in

468-810: The California State Legislature , Belmont is in the 13th Senate District , represented by Democrat Josh Becker , and in the 21st Assembly District , represented by Democrat Diane Papan . Federally, Belmont is in California's 15th congressional district , represented by Democrat Kevin Mullin . According to the California Secretary of State , as of February 10, 2019, Belmont has 15,827 registered voters. Of those, 7,678 (48.5%) are registered Democrats , 2,540 (16%) are registered Republicans , and 4,994 (31.6%) have declined to state

504-585: The Philippines . For the past eight years, Gartner has recognized RingCentral as a Worldwide Leader in the Magic Quadrant for UCaaS, most recently in 2022. In 2022, RingCentral was featured as one of San Francisco’s 100 Best Places to Work. In 2023, RingCentral was included in Fast Company ’s annual 100 Best Workplaces for Innovators list. Douglas Leone Douglas M. Leone (born July 4, 1957)

540-452: The exposition closed in 1915. The city is bordered by San Mateo to the north, Half Moon Bay to the west, Redwood Shores to the east, and San Carlos to the south. Belmont has a smoking ordinance , passed in January 2009, which bans smoking in all businesses and multi-story apartments and condominiums; the ordinance has been described as one of the strictest in the nation . The name

576-533: The Avaya Cloud Office application. In April 2020, RingCentral launched RingCentral Video, a video-conferencing product, which completed its differentiated Message Video Phone (MVP) solution. The RingCentral MVP app launched in May 2020. In 2021, RingCentral entered an exclusive UCaaS partnership with Mitel ; under this collaboration, Mitel’s users can access RingCentral’s cloud communications platform. Mo Katibeh

612-795: The Hawaii Supreme Court has ruled against the development. In May 2021, Leone was conferred with the Order of the Star of Italy , in the class of Officer ( Ufficiale dell'Ordine della Stella d'Italia ). Belmont, California Belmont is a city in San Mateo County in the U.S. state of California . It is in the San Francisco Bay Area , on the San Francisco Peninsula about halfway between San Francisco and San Jose . It

648-649: The RingCentral platform. RingCentral has a total of 22 office locations globally. RingCentral's headquarters are in Belmont, California , with other US offices in Denver , Charlotte , and Dallas . It has international offices in Canada , the UK , France , Bulgaria , Spain , China , India , the Netherlands , Israel , Australia , South Korea , Switzerland , Germany , Ireland , and

684-446: The RingCentral platform. In October 2018, it acquired Dimelo, a Paris-based OmniChannel contact center provider. In January 2019, it acquired Connect First, a Boulder, Colorado-based outbound and blended customer engagement provider. In December 2020, it purchased DeepAffects, which specializes in intelligence-assisted speech recognition. In March 2021, it purchased Kindite, an encryption service provider. RingCentral acquired Hopin ,

720-587: The Teams platform and features calling, SMS, and fax. It can also be coupled with RingCentral Contact Center. In June 2023, RingCentral became the first global cloud provider to offer fully compliant cloud phone system services in India. On August 28, 2023, Tarek Robbiati became CEO. In June 2015, RingCentral acquired Glip, a persistent workstream collaboration platform that adds team messaging, document sharing, task and event management, and other collaboration functionality to

756-517: The Vodafone One Net TeamCollaboration. Using RingCentral’s UCaaS solution, these partnerships combine RingCentral’s messaging and video capabilities with Vodafone’s fixed and mobile voice communications functionality into one platform. The next generation of RingCentral for Microsoft Teams 2.0 was announced in May 2023. The next-gen embedded app integrates RingCentral’s cloud PBX & softphone dialer capabilities directly into

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792-553: The city to stop secondhand smoke from drifting into their apartments from neighboring places. Public health advocates consider the ordinance to be a new front in a national battle against tobacco; officials from the American Lung Association of California said "Belmont broke through this invisible barrier in the sense that it addressed drifting smoke in housing as a public health issue." The public schools in Belmont are highly rated. The public schools in Belmont are run by

828-745: The economy in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic . The Washington Post reported that Leone proposed using his connections in the Trump Administration to help smooth the sale of TikTok (in which Sequoia had invested heavily) to a US corporation. Leone renounced his support for Trump following the 2021 storming of the United States Capitol . In April 2022, Sequoia announced that Roelof Botha would replace Leone as its senior steward of global brand and operations, effective from July 5, following Leone's 65th birthday. Since then, Leone continues to be

864-420: The occupied units 6,280 (59.4%) were owner-occupied and 4,295 (42.0%) were rented. The homeowner vacancy rate was 0.7%; the rental vacancy rate was 5.2%. 16,473 people (63.8% of the population) lived in owner-occupied housing units and 8,848 people (34.2%) lived in rental housing units. At the 2000 census there were 25,123 people in 10,418 households, including 6,542 families, in the city. The population density

900-635: The population) lived in households, 394 (1.5%) lived in non-institutionalized group quarters, and 120 (0.5%) were institutionalized. There were 10,575 households, 3,251 (30.7%) had children under the age of 18 living in them, 5,630 (53.2%) were opposite-sex married couples living together, 830 (7.8%) had a female householder with no husband or wife present, 391 (3.7%) had a male householder with no wife or husband present. There were 510 (4.8%) unmarried opposite-sex partnerships , and 96 (0.9%) same-sex married couples or partnerships . 2,904 households (27.5%) were one person and 997 (9.4%) had someone living alone who

936-1121: The residents who were not Hispanic or Latino, 13,572 were White , 348 were Black or African American, 22 were American Indian and Alaska Native, 8,330 were Asian, 132 were Native Hawaiians or other Pacific Islanders, 300 were of other races, and 2,108 were of two or more races. 2020 was the first recent census in which non-Hispanic White people were not the majority of the population in Belmont (47.9%). Among Hispanic and Latino residents, 676 identified their race as White , 22 Black or African American , 80 American Indian and Alaska Native, 68 Asian , 16 Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander, 1,227 Some Other Race, and 1,434 two or more races. 1,021 Hispanic or Latino residents identified their race as both White and Some Other Race. There were 11,169 housing units, of which 10,705 were occupied and 464 were vacant. 722 people (2.5%) were living in group quarters, including 203 in nursing facilities , 339 in college/university student housing, and 180 in other facilities. 22,198 people (78.3%) were 18 years old or older, while 6,137 (21.7%) were younger than 18 years old. At

972-424: Was $ 99,739, and the median family income was $ 122,515. Males had a median income of $ 63,281 versus $ 46,957 for females. The per capita income for the city was $ 42,812. About 1.7% of families and 4.0% of the population were below the poverty line , including 3.2% of those under age 18 and 4.8% of those age 65 and over. In May 2009, Belmont was ranked 11th on Forbes list of "America's Top 25 Towns to Live Well." In

1008-402: Was 2.35 and the average family size was 2.89. The age distribution was 19.3% under the age of 18, 6.5% from 18 to 24, 35.9% from 25 to 44, 25.1% from 45 to 64, and 13.2% 65 or older. The median age was 39 years. For every 100 females, there were 96.7 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 94.6 males. According to a 2007 estimate, the median income for a household in the city

1044-482: Was 5,551.1 inhabitants per square mile (2,143.3/km ). There were 10,577 housing units at an average density of 2,337.1 units per square mile (902.4 units/km ). Of the 10,418 households 26.4% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 52.6% were married couples living together, 7.1% had a female householder with no husband present, and 37.2% were non-families. 27.2% of households were one person and 7.3% were one person aged 65 or older. The average household size

1080-585: Was 65 or older. The average household size was 2.39. There were 6,851 families (64.8% of households); the average family size was 2.95. The age distribution was 5,395 people (20.9%) under the age of 18, 1,668 people (6.5%) aged 18 to 24, 7,645 people (29.6%) aged 25 to 44, 7,284 people (28.2%) aged 45 to 64, and 3,843 people (14.9%) who were 65 or older. The median age was 40.9 years. For every 100 females, there were 95.4 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 92.5 males. There were 11,028 housing units at an average density of 2,381.8 per square mile, of

1116-543: Was appointed as President and COO in January 2022, having previously served as an AT&T executive for over 20 years. RingCentral began offering its MVP and Contact Center features to Amazon Web Services in February 2023. RingSense, an AI platform, was launched in March 2023. In April 2023, Vodafone Italy and RingCentral partnered to roll out Vodafone Business UC. In May 2023, Vodafone Portugal and RingCentral announced

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1152-608: Was built around a villa formerly owned by Count Leonetto Cipriani  [ fr ] , an Italian aristocrat. The locally famous "Waterdog Lake" is also located in the foothills and highlands of Belmont. A surviving structure from the Panama–Pacific International Exposition is on Belmont Avenue (another is the Palace of Fine Arts in San Francisco). The building was brought to Belmont by E.D. Swift shortly after

1188-453: Was originally part of Rancho de las Pulgas , for which one of its main roads, the Alameda de las Pulgas, is named. The city was incorporated in 1926. Its population was 28,335 at the 2020 census . Ralston Hall is a historic landmark built by Bank of California founder William Chapman Ralston on the campus of Notre Dame de Namur University , and is also home to Notre Dame High School . It

1224-557: Was ranked #693 on Forbes list of the World's Billionaires , with a net worth of US$ 2.9 billion. In 2020, he was named on the Forbes Billionaires list with wealth of US$ 3.5 billion and ranked #538. His ranking on the list in 2022 was #350, with a net worth of US$ 6.9 billion. Leone and his wife donated $ 100,000 to support President Donald Trump 's 2020 re-election campaign , and Leone was appointed to Trump's task force on re-opening

1260-584: Was reported as 28,335. The population density was 6,119.9 inhabitants per square mile (2,362.9/km ). The racial makeup of the city was 14,248 (50.3%) White , 370 (1.3%) Black or African American , 102 (0.4%) American Indian and Alaska Native , 8,398 (29.6%) Asian , 148 (0.5%) Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander , 1,527 (5.4%) Some Other Race, and 3,542 (12.5%) two or more races . The largest mixed-race groups were White and Some Other Race (1,345, 4.7%) and White and Asian (1,312, 4.6%). 3,523 residents (12.4%) were Hispanic or Latino (of any race). Among

1296-463: Was sold to Motorola in 2003, and Shmunis and Vendrow founded RingCentral. RingCentral received its first round of venture capital investment in 2006. In 2011, it added Cisco and Silicon Valley Bank as investors and had, to date, secured $ 45 million in capital investment. It completed its IPO on September 27, 2013, and completed a follow-on offering in March 2014 that raised $ 39.8 million. In February 2020, RingCentral and Avaya unveiled

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