Superhuman, the productivity software company formerly known as Grammarly, said on September 14, 2026 that it had acquired Fathom, a Y Combinator-backed startup that records, transcribes and summarises video meetings with AI.
The companies did not disclose financial terms. Fathom, founded in 2020, had raised more than $30 million and was valued at $94 million in 2024, according to PitchBook data cited by TechCrunch.
Superhuman said it would bring Fathom's notetaking into its suite of apps for email, calendar, documents and databases, and make meeting records available to Superhuman Go, its AI assistant. The announcement did not say whether Fathom would continue as a separate app or brand, or how many Fathom employees would join, describing the startup's staff only as an experienced team.
What Fathom built
Fathom joins video calls, records them and produces transcripts, summaries and lists of action items. It offers recording without a visible bot in the meeting, live summaries while a call is still going, and integrations that push meeting notes into CRMs, AI tools and other workplace software. Teams use it to search past conversations and look for patterns across sales calls and customer feedback.
The company built much of its audience through a free plan. It has more than 400,000 monthly active users and says over 1 million people have recorded meetings with it, according to TechCrunch. It was included in G2's 2026 list of the top 100 software products and was named HubSpot's most-used app of 2025.
Fathom is led by founder and chief executive Richard White. Its institutional backers include Telescope Partners, Maven Ventures, Character, Active Capital, Rackhouse Ventures, BoxOne Ventures and the Zoom Apps Fund. More than 1,300 individuals also invested, among them Reddit chief executive Steve Huffman, former Twitch chief executive Emmett Shear and Cruise co-founder Kyle Vogt, TechCrunch reported.
“The vast knowledge in your company is spoken, not written; it lives in meetings, calls, and conversations. We built Fathom to capture that knowledge as it happens, with highest quality transcripts and summaries also available bot-free. By joining Superhuman, that context can travel with you to your inbox, your docs, and across every app and website you work, so nothing gets lost in the work that follows.”
Why Superhuman is buying
Superhuman has been assembling a suite of AI work tools. Grammarly bought the email client Superhuman in 2025 and later took its name for the whole company; the document app Coda has been renamed Superhuman Docs. The company says it serves more than 40 million people, 50,000 organisations and 3,000 educational institutions.
Chief executive Shishir Mehrotra said Superhuman users had been asking for an integrated notetaker for a long time, and that meeting notes were one of the clearest places where AI could help. He told TechCrunch that the company chose to buy rather than build, and that a notetaker would let Superhuman surface meeting context in real time, draft emails, update data, schedule follow-ups and let AI agents act on what was discussed.
Superhuman gave an example of what it has in mind: an agent could review the transcript of a team standup, draft status updates in the team's project tracker in Superhuman Docs, and ask the project manager to approve them.
The founder's view
White said the knowledge inside a company is mostly spoken rather than written, and that joining Superhuman would let meeting context follow users into their inbox, documents and other apps.
He told TechCrunch that staying independent would have required Fathom to build many features that Superhuman already has, and that Superhuman's reach offered a way to get Fathom in front of a much larger number of users.
A crowded market for AI notetakers
Fathom operates in a busy field. It competes with startups including Granola and Read AI, and TechCrunch noted that Wispr is preparing a notetaker of its own. Mehrotra told TechCrunch that many of these products make the job look easy, but that doing it well in every part is harder than it appears.
For Superhuman, the deal adds a large base of meeting data to a product line that until now covered written work. For Fathom's users, the immediate question is how the standalone app will fit into Superhuman's suite, which the companies have not yet detailed.
