Superhuman is acquiring Y Combinator-backed Fathom as productivity platforms increasingly turn to AI-powered “notetaker” tools. Founded in 2020, Fathom records meetings and generates notes and action items; this data can help AI initiate tasks without a user prompt.
According to PitchBook data, Fathom has raised more than $30 million to date and reached a valuation of $94 million in 2024. The company’s investors include Zoom Apps Fund, Telescope Partners, BoxOne Ventures and Maven Ventures. Reddit CEO Steve Huffman, former Twitch CEO Emmett Shear and Cruise co-founder Kyle Vogt are also among the company’s investors. Driven by its free plan, Fathom has more than 400,000 monthly active users; the company says more than 1 million people have recorded meetings to date.
Superhuman tested its own notetaker with select users earlier this year but chose to acquire Fathom rather than build the product from scratch. CEO Shishir Mehrotra said the testing process demonstrated both the difficulty of developing such a product and the demand for the category. Mehrotra said he was impressed by the Fathom team’s technical work and that they aim to provide meeting context in real time.
Companies such as Granola, Read AI and new startup Wispr also compete in the meeting notetaker market. According to Fathom CEO Richard White, Superhuman’s 40 million users present a significant opportunity to distribute the product at scale. White also said that many features Fathom would otherwise have to develop independently already exist on the Superhuman platform.
Superhuman has an email client, a document app, a calendar, a database solution and an AI agent-building platform. Through Fathom’s integration, the system is intended to draft emails, update data, schedule follow-up meetings and extract insights from meeting data.
Why it matters
The acquisition stands out as an attempt to turn meeting notes from a separate recording feature into part of a broader workflow connected to email, calendar, document and database operations. In this respect, the development is relevant to users who want meeting outcomes to be carried beyond simply being stored and into steps such as drafting, updating data and scheduling follow-ups. While Superhuman can shorten the process of developing its own notetaker by leveraging ready-made technology and a broad user base, Fathom could also bring the usage experience it gained as an independent product to a more comprehensive platform. However, how Fathom’s existing free-use model and features based on meeting recordings will integrate with Superhuman’s various applications remains an open question.