Superhuman Platform Inc.

What does Superhuman own?
Superhuman owns four products: the Grammarly writing assistant, the Coda collaborative workspace, Superhuman Mail, and the Superhuman Go AI assistant. It also holds the intellectual property and user bases of each.

Is Superhuman publicly traded?
No. Superhuman is a private venture-backed company with no stock ticker. Secondary market platforms price its shares privately, and the company has not announced an IPO date.

Who founded Superhuman?
Max Lytvyn, Alex Shevchenko, and Dmytro Lider founded the company in 2009 in Kyiv, Ukraine, originally under the name Grammarly. All three are Ukrainian software entrepreneurs who met through earlier work on plagiarism detection software.

Where is Superhuman headquartered?
The company is headquartered in San Francisco, California. It also maintains offices in Vancouver and Kyiv, among other locations.

How many brands does Superhuman own?
Superhuman has four product brands: Grammarly, Coda, Superhuman Mail, and Superhuman Go. Grammarly and Coda serve hundreds of thousands of business teams, while Mail and Go target individual productivity users.

Who owns Superhuman?
Ownership is held by the founders, employees, and venture capital firms including General Catalyst, IVP, Spark Capital, SignalFire, and Breyer Capital. No single investor holds disclosed majority control, and the co-founders remain significant shareholders.

The company began in 2009 in Kyiv, Ukraine. Max Lytvyn and Alex Shevchenko, who had previously built a plagiarism detection service called MyDropbox used by universities, recruited engineer Dmytro Lider to build a consumer writing tool. The first Grammarly product was a paid grammar checker aimed at students and professionals.

Grammarly raised its first outside capital unusually late. The company was profitable for most of its first decade and took its initial institutional round in 2017, a $110 million raise led by General Catalyst with participation from IVP and Spark Capital. A $90 million round followed in 2019, and a $200 million round in November 2021 valued the company at $13 billion.

Product development tracked the rise of applied AI. The company added tone detection, clarity suggestions, and business features through the late 2010s. It opened a Vancouver office in 2019 and maintained a large engineering presence in Kyiv. In 2022, following the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Grammarly committed resources to relocating and supporting its Ukrainian staff and donated revenue generated in Russia and Belarus to Ukrainian causes.

Generative AI shifted the roadmap in 2023. Grammarly launched GrammarlyGO, a set of text generation and rewriting features, in April 2023. Rahul Roy-Chowdhury, previously head of product, became CEO that May, replacing longtime chief Brad Hoover.

The acquisition phase began in late 2024. The company agreed to buy Coda, a document and workflow platform founded by former Google and Microsoft executive Shishir Mehrotra, in a deal completed in January 2025. In May 2025, Grammarly closed a $1 billion non-dilutive growth financing commitment from General Catalyst's Customer Value Fund to fund sales, marketing, and further acquisitions. Two months later it agreed to acquire Superhuman, a premium email application previously valued at $825 million. In October 2025 the company renamed itself Superhuman and launched the unified suite and the Superhuman Go AI assistant. SEC filings confirm the legal entity became Superhuman Platform Inc. in November 2025.

Superhuman has faced the scrutiny common to AI companies rather than major regulatory action. Its AI detection feature drew criticism from educators and researchers who found it produced false positives on student writing. Privacy researchers have periodically examined how the browser extension processes user text, and the company has been sued in class actions alleging its tools intercepted user data, claims it disputes.

The company's 2025 acquisitions also attracted antitrust commentary because three productivity properties were consolidated under one AI platform, but no regulator moved to block either deal. In Ukraine, the company's decision in 2022 to suspend service in Russia and Belarus was widely covered and received no material legal challenge.