4 years ago

Superhuman Raises $75 Million for Waitlist-Only Email App

  • Superhuman, a waitlist-only email productivity app, has raised $75 million in a Series C funding round led by IVP

  • The round, which included Tiger Global and personal investments from the CEOs of Discord and Dropbox, values Superhuman at $825 million

  • Superhuman has never formally launched and has grown cautiously, largely off its own revenue

  • The company's killer feature is its keyboard shortcuts that make it easy to reply with pre-written messages or templates, Zoom links, and calendar holds

  • Superhuman is pushing into enterprise sales with new executive hires and has a net retention of corporate customers fluctuating between 130% and 180%

  • The company plans to add features like basic task management to assign emails to colleagues, as well as auto-correct and other writing assistance tools to make composing emails faster

  • Superhuman is also looking at its future in messaging apps and real-time communications like Slack.

      • ProblemTechnology

      "Email is a time-consuming and inefficient way to communicate, especially in the workplace."

      Solution

      "Superhuman offers a premium email productivity app with features like keyboard shortcuts, pre-written messages, and integration with other work apps to make email faster and more efficient."

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