Superhuman is acquiring Y Combinator-backed meeting notetaker Fathom after testing a notetaker internally. PitchBook figures in the story put Fathom's 2024 valuation at 94 million dollars on more than 30 million dollars raised. Chief Shishir Mehrotra said the trial showed demand and how much would have to be rebuilt in-house; Fathom's Richard White pointed to Superhuman's tens of millions of users. The price was not disclosed.
Ivan Mehta reports that Superhuman is joining other productivity platforms that now ship meeting notetakers, but is buying Y Combinator-backed Fathom rather than finishing one internally. TechCrunch writes that Superhuman tested a notetaker with select users earlier this year and then chose a finished product. Superhuman chief Shishir Mehrotra said the trial showed both demand and how hard it is to create a notetaker. The acquisition price was not disclosed.[1]
PitchBook figures in the same dispatch put Fathom's start in 2020, more than thirty million dollars raised, and a ninety-four million dollar 2024 valuation. Fathom reports over four hundred thousand monthly active accounts and above one million recorded meetings so far. Fathom chief Richard White pointed to Superhuman's tens of millions of users as why the distribution mattered. Investors named in the story include Zoom Apps Fund, Telescope Partners and individuals such as Reddit chief Steve Huffman.[1]
TechCrunch does not publish a price, a close date or a timetable for folding Fathom into Superhuman's email, docs, calendar, database and agent tools. It reports only that Superhuman already has those products and that a meeting notetaker would let it draft mail, update records and start agents from meeting data. White's 40 million-user distribution argument and Mehrotra's rebuild-cost argument are the story's reasons for a sale, not a second newsroom's confirmation of the contract.[1]
