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Writer, The Ai Writing Assistant For Companies, Secures $21 Million In Series A Funding Led By Insight Partners

PRIVATENov 15, 2021

Amount Raised

$21 Million

Round Type

Series A

San FranciscoSoftwareArtificial Intelligence

Description

Writer, the AI writing assistant for professional users, announced today a $21 million Series A funding round as the company transforms the way people write. The financing was led by New York-based global private equity and venture capital firm Insight Partners with a slew of top machine learning experts, SaaS operators, writers, and CEOs participating, including Gradient Ventures, the Todd & Rahul Angel Fund, Scott Belsky, Oliver Jay, Jack Altman, Allison Pickens, Packy McCormick, Lenny Rachitsky, Austin Rief, Ankur Nagpal, Alex MacCaw, Camille Ricketts, Vivek Sodera, Julia Lipton, and James Beshara. The funding will be used to invest in product, engineering, and GTM hiring.

Quick answer

Writer raised $21 Million in a Series A round, dated November 15, 2021. Writer is based in San Francisco, California, United States.

How much did Writer raise?
Writer raised $21 Million in a Series A round on November 15, 2021.
What does Writer do?
WRITER is where the world’s leading enterprises orchestrate AI-powered work.
Where is Writer based and how big is it?
Writer is based in San Francisco, California, United States.
Who are the decision-makers at Writer?
Fundz holds 1 contact at Writer. Names and contact details are shown to Fundz members.

Source: Fundz verified event record.

Who else raised in Software and Artificial Intelligence around the same time

Companies in the same sectors as Writer that raised within 45 days of this round, from Fundz verified event records.

  • Neuro Brave raised an undisclosed amount (Funding Round) on December 28, 2021.
  • Lilt raised $55M on December 28, 2021.
  • RoboSense raised an undisclosed amount (Corporate Round) on December 27, 2021.
  • TrojAI raised $500K (Seed) on December 22, 2021.
  • Ocurate raised $3.5M (Seed) on December 22, 2021.
  • Edge Impulse raised $34M on December 22, 2021.

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Company Information

Company

Writer

Location

San Francisco, California, United States

About

WRITER is where the world’s leading enterprises orchestrate AI-powered work. With WRITER'S end-to-end platform, teams can build, activate, and supervise AI agents that are grounded in their company’s data and fueled by WRITER'S enterprise-grade LLMs. From faster product launches to deeper financial research to better clinical trials, companies are quickly transforming their most important business processes for the AI era in partnership with WRITER.

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