Grammarly acquires AI email client Superhuman

Grammarly, the well-known AI writing assistant, revealed on Tuesday that it is acquiring email platform Superhuman. This move is part of Grammarly's ambitious plan to perfect its AI capabilities for its productivity suite. No financial specifics of the deal were shared publicly by either company.

Conrad Irwin, Vivek Sodera, and Rahul Vohra created Superhuman. This innovative company managed to gather more than $114 million in funding from leading backers like a16z, IVP, and Tiger Global. The last-known worth of the firm was a whopping $825 million, as stated by the venture data analytics firm Traxcn.

“With the addition of Superhuman, we can offer innovative solutions to a larger professional audience and provide our existing users a new dimension of agent collaboration that is unique in the market. Email is far from just being another app. It is a key platform where professionals dedicate significant parts of their day, and it's the ideal space for coordinating multiple AI agents,” Grammarly's CEO, Shishir Mehrotra, voiced enthusiastically in an official statement.

Following this agreement, Superhuman's CEO, Rahul Vohra, and crew will be joining the Grammarly team.

Rahul Vohra, Superhuman's CEO, highlighted in a statement, “Email is the chief communication means for billions globally and ranked top usage-wise for Grammarly users. By uniting with Grammarly, we will pour even more resources into improving the Superhuman experience, while creating a revolutionary work methodology where AI agents work in unison across the communication tools we all use daily."

In recent months, Superhuman has debuted intriguing AI-powered features concerning scheduling, replying, and categorizing. Grammarly, in its latest announcement, expressed its intention to develop AI agents for managing emails using Superhuman's refined tech, reiterating that email is a major driving factor for Grammarly.

Only last year, Grammarly took over the collaborative productivity software, Coda, following which Shishir Mehrotra of Coda ascended to the role of CEO at Grammarly.

Earlier in May, Grammarly succeeded in raising $1 billion from General Catalyst, a non-dilutive type of investment. This indicates that Grammarly has committed to reimburse General Catalyst's funds using a predetermined percentage of the money made with this fund rather than giving up stock.

by rayyan