Writer is an Enterprise AI Agents company founded in 2020 and based in San Francisco, United States. It has raised $326M in total funding, most recently a Series C in 2024 at a $1.9B valuation.
United States| Date | Stage | Amount | Valuation | Lead investors |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 12, 2024 | Series C | $200M | $1.9B | Premji Invest, Radical Ventures, ICONIQ Growth |
| Sep 1, 2023 | Series B | $100M |
| — |
| ICONIQ Growth |
Writer's argument is control: enterprises that want generative AI without shipping data to a frontier lab get a full stack — in-house Palmyra models, governance, and agent tooling — from one vendor, and names like Accenture, Uber, and Hilton say the pitch closes. The strategic squeeze is that both ends of the market converge on it: frontier labs push enterprise suites with better models, while open weights let sophisticated buyers self-serve the control story. Mid-size models as a differentiator decay fast, no public pricing or revenue record tests the position's durability, and so the honest grade is a credible contender whose barrier is execution, not structure.
May Habib co-founded Writer in 2020 and serves as CEO. She previously co-founded the language-technology startup Qordoba in 2015 with Waseem AlShikh, which the two pivoted into Writer. Under her leadership Writer raised a $200M Series C at a $1.9B valuation in November 2024.
Waseem AlShikh co-founded Writer in 2020 and serves as Chief Technology Officer, leading development of the company's full-stack enterprise AI platform and its in-house Palmyra family of models. He previously co-founded Qordoba with May Habib.
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Full-stack generative-AI platform that lets enterprises build and deploy AI applications and agents for content, knowledge work, and business processes, with governance and security controls for large organizations.
Writer's in-house family of large language models, including the Palmyra X series, built for enterprise use cases such as tool calling and executing complex multi-step workflows.
Development environment for building custom AI agents and applications on top of Writer's platform and Palmyra models.
3 patents on file, but none with both an extractable figure and an abstract on Google Patents yet.
