WRITER - About the company
WRITER is a series C company based in San Francisco (United States), founded in 2012 by May Habib and Waseem Alshikh. It operates as a Developer of an enterprise AI platform for agentic work. WRITER has raised $369M in funding from investors like Upfront Ventures, Insight Partners and Iconiq Capital, with a current valuation of $1.9B. The company has 508 active competitors, including 94 funded and 10 that have exited. Its top competitors include companies like Manus, UiPath and UnifyApps.
Sectors and market segments that WRITER operate in
WRITER serves in the High Tech, Native AI market segments.The primary business model of WRITER are:Company Details
Developer of an enterprise AI platform for agentic work. The platform enables users to build, activate, and supervise AI agents. It offers tools for IT and business teams to create agents with shared resources. The platform provides features for governing and observing agents at scale, along with integrations and controls.
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- writer.com
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Key Metrics
Founded Year
2012
Location
San Francisco, United States
Stage
Series C
Total Funding
$369M in 12 rounds
Latest Funding Round
Post Money Valuation
$1.9B as on Nov 06, 2024
Investors
Ranked
3rd among 508 active competitors
Employee Count
563 as on May 31, 2026
Legal entities associated with WRITER
WRITER is associated with 1 legal entity given below:
Legal Entity Name | Date of Incorporation | Revenue | Latest Employee Count | Documents |
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WRITER, INC. CIN: 5702266 , United States, Active | Mar 02, 2015 | - | - | - |
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WRITER's funding and investors
WRITER has raised a total funding of $369M over 12 rounds. Its first funding round was on Mar 05, 2012. Its latest funding round was a Series C round on Nov 06, 2024 for $200M. 13 investors participated in its latest round. WRITER has 42 institutional investors and 15 angel investors.
Here is the list of recent funding rounds of WRITER:
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Filter this listDate of Funding | Funding Amount | Round Name | Post-Money Valuation | Revenue Multiple | Lead Investors | Other Investors |
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Nov 06, 2024 | $200M | Series C | $1.9B | - | ||
Sep 18, 2023 | $100M | Series B | $500M | - | ||
Nov 15, 2021 | $21M | Series B | - | - |
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WRITER's founders and board of directors
Founder? Claim ProfileHere are the details of WRITER's key team members:
- May Habib: Co-Founder & CEO of WRITER and founder of 1 other company. They are also an angel investor in 1 startup and serve on the board of 1 company.Contact Info: 1 email address
- Waseem Alshikh: Co-founder and CTO of WRITER. They serve on the board of 1 company.Contact Info: 1 email address
WRITER's Board of Directors
WRITER's board has 7 active members. May Habib, Doug Pepper, Waseem Alshikh, Jennifer Scott Fonstad, Robert Toews, Whitney Bouck and J Zachary Stein are independent board members.Here is the list of WRITER's board of directors:
Name | Type | Representing | Status | Duration |
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Independent board member | - | Current | 1y 7m | |
Independent board member | - | Current | 1y 7m | |
Independent board member | - | Current | 1y 7m | |
Independent board member | - | Current | 1y 7m | |
Independent board member | - | Current | 1y 7m | |
Independent board member | - | Current | 1y 7m | |
Independent board member | - | Current | 1y 7m |
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WRITER's employee count trend
WRITER has 563 employees as of May 26. Here is WRITER's employee count trend over the years:
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WRITER's Competitors and alternates
Top competitors of WRITER include Manus, UiPath and UnifyApps. Here is the list of Top 10 competitors of WRITER, ranked by Tracxn score:
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Rank | Company Details | Short Description | Total Funding | Investors | Tracxn Score |
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1st | General AI agent that leverages its autonomous capabilities to bridge minds and actions | $85M | 74/100 | ||
2nd | UiPath 2005, New York City (United States), Public | Provider of a platform for agentic automation and AI solutions | $1.96B | 72/100 | |
3rd |  WRITER 2012, San Francisco (United States), Series C | Developer of an enterprise AI platform for agentic work | $369M | 70/100 | |
4th |  UnifyApps 2023, New York (United States), Series B | AI-powered enterprise platform offering a unified integration layer to connect systems of record | $84.2M | 69/100 | |
5th |  Lyzr 2023, Jersey City (United States), Series A | Developer of infrastructure software for managing and deploying artificial agents | $40.1M | 69/100 | |
6th | Developer of AI agents and an AI-native learning management system | $136M | 68/100 | ||
7th | Uniphore 2008, Palo Alto (United States), Series F | Provider of a business artificial intelligence platform with agentic and model layers | $961M | 67/100 | |
8th |  Aisera 2017, Santa Clara (United States), Acquired | Provider of AI agent platform for enterprise automation | $150M | 67/100 | |
9th | Relevance AI 2020, Sydney (Australia), Series B | AI-powered image data analytics platform | $37M | 66/100 | |
10th | Developer of platform for AI workflow automation and application integration | $254M | 65/100 |
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WRITER's Investments and acquisitions
WRITER has made no investments or acquisitions yet.
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News related to WRITER
Filter this listMedia has covered WRITER for a total of 14 events in the last 1 year, 5 of them have been about company updates and 5 about people movement.
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Writer Enhances Brand Consistency for Enterprise Marketing with New InfrastructureSiliconAngle•May 28, 2026•WRITER
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WRITER Launches AI CMO Council to Lead the Agentic Marketing Revolution in the EnterpriseBusiness Wire•May 05, 2026•WRITER
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WRITER Appoints Brian O'Reilly as First Chief Operating OfficerBusiness Wire•Feb 24, 2026•WRITER
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Cohesity & AWS Collaborate to Advance AI Cyber ResilienceCIO Influence•Nov 21, 2025•Amazon Web Services, Cohesity, zeb, TigerData and 7 others
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WRITER Launches New AI Agent Experience to Power Everyday Work with Enterprise-wide ImpactBusiness Wire•Nov 18, 2025•WRITER
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Carnezinho no PIX': Pagaleve raises R$ 160 million and is now worth R$ 1 billionFusoes & Aquisicoes•Oct 08, 2025•Credit Saison, Salesforce Ventures, Pagaleve, OIF Ventures and 9 others
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Perficient and Writer Announce Strategic Partnership to Revolutionize Enterprise AI AdoptionBusiness Wire•Aug 28, 2025•WRITER, Perficient
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Writer’s $1.9B AI action agent outperforms OpenAI, is Anthropic the next one?Tech Funding News•Jul 30, 2025•Premji Invest, OpenAI, WRITER, Iconiq Capital and 1 other
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