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Writer

The full-stack generative AI platform for the enterprise.
Enterprise AI 📍 San Francisco, CA Founded 2020
Current Valuation
$1.9B
as of 2024-Q4
UNICORN

IPO Outlookprivate

Is Writer going public?
No. Writer is private and has not filed to go public. There is no S-1 on file.
What is Writer's valuation in 2026?
Writer is valued at $1.9B as of 2024-Q4, set by its Series C ($200M, Nov 2024). That is the last confirmed mark, not a live price — private shares do not trade continuously.
Has Writer filed an S-1?
No public S-1 is on file for Writer.
Who are Writer's investors?
Writer's investors include Premji Invest, ICONIQ Growth, Insight Partners, Salesforce Ventures, Adobe Ventures, Banyan Capital and 2 more.
Answers are derived from the roster record shown on this page — filing status, last round and confirmed marks. Where the record is silent, the answer says so rather than guessing.
Writer is a full-stack generative AI platform that enables enterprises to build and deploy AI applications with their own data and brand guidelines. The platform features the Palmyra family of large language models, a knowledge graph for RAG, and AI Studio for developing agentic workflows.

Company Profile

CEO
May Habib
Founded
2020
HQ
San Francisco, CA
Employees
~350
Total Raised
$326M
Est. Revenue
$47M (2024)
Growth
High-growth enterprise AI platform with ~200% YoY revenue increase in 2024.
Last Round
Series C — $200M (Nov 2024) · Lead: Premji Invest
IPO Status
private

Fundraising Status

Series C · $200M · 1y 9mo ago
privateTotal raised $326M

Secondary Market

Implied price / share
$34.28
Last round price / share
$52.08
vs last round
-34.2%
Open interest
7
Last round price vs secondary price
Last round vs current secondary price per share$52.08Last round$34.28Current
Secondary price return by period
Secondary market period returns3-month+11.2%6-month-10.0%1-year-25.7%All-time+102%
Implied per-share price from private secondary transactions, as of Jun 2026. This is a point estimate, not a quote — the feed carries no bid, ask or spread, and a secondary print is evidence of what someone paid on that date rather than a live market. Compare across every tracked name →

Latest Funding Round

RoundAmountDateLead InvestorPost-Money
Series C$200MNov 2024Premji Invest

Vertical Intelligence — AI / ML

Open models
29
verified organization
Downloads (30d)
0
across all models
Followers
403
Attributed to Hugging Face organization "Writer" as of 2026-08-19. Open-weights footprint only — closed-model usage is not publicly measurable. Verify on Hugging Face ↗

Talent Signal

Hiring trend
First snapshot
trend accrues with monthly sweeps
Open roles
53
via ashby
Product-build share
45%
engineering, research, product, design
Trajectory
steady
product-led hiring — 45% of open roles build product; the rest are go-to-market and G&A.
Actively hiring with no tracked executive churn.
Open roles by month
Open roles by month53Aug '26
Open roles by function
Open roles by functionEngineering17Other16Sales & GTM9Security4Marketing3Data & ML2Research1Finance & Strategy1
product-building   go-to-market / G&A
Software engineer, generative AISecurity engineer, detection and responseSoftware engineer, generative AI (UK)Software engineer, connectors & MCPSecurity engineer, detection and response (UK)AI engineer
Counted from Writer's live job board as of 2026-08-17; role functions classified from posting titles. Open-role counts are an activity signal, not headcount. Refreshed monthly.

Founders & Key People

May HabibWaseem Alshikh

Investors

Premji Invest · ICONIQ Growth · Insight Partners · Salesforce Ventures · Adobe Ventures · Banyan Capital · Upfront Ventures · Kelly Watkins

Products

  • Palmyra LLM
  • AI HQ
  • AI Studio
  • Knowledge Graph
  • Writer for Chrome
  • No-code app builder

Competitors

Jasper · Copy.ai · Glean · Typeface · OpenAI
Generative AIEnterprise SaaSLLMAI AgentsContent Strategy
Private-company numbers are not real-time. Reflects publicly disclosed valuations from press releases, news reports, and tender offers as of 2024-Q4. Refreshed quarterly.