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Superhuman

555 Mission St Ste 300, San Francisco, California, 94105, United States

Overview

Superhuman is a subscription email service that provides a fast, productivity-focused email client with features like AI Triage, Undo Send, Insights from social networks, Follow-up Reminders, Scheduled Messages, and Read Statuses. Led by founder and CEO Rahul Vohra and based in San Francisco, the company emphasizes speed and keyboard-driven workflows—users have sent over 100 million messages, triaged over 335 million conversations, and used more than 1 billion keyboard shortcuts. Financially, Superhuman has raised a total of $126M to date after a $75M Series C. The company plans to use recent funds to expand operations, accelerate product development, and broaden its business reach, targeting the hundreds of millions of Outlook and Android users. Product roadmap priorities include investments in writing assistance to correct errors and help users type faster, and in task management to assign or delegate email. Superhuman also plans new integrations with third-party tools such as Grammarly, Hubspot, and Salesforce to deepen productivity workflows. Superhuman is a subscription email app built around speed, keyboard shortcuts, and workflow features like an “Important” tab, custom buckets, email tracking, snippets, and sidebar contact profiles. The service emphasizes an exclusive, concierge onboarding process (including 30-minute setup calls) and distributes its iOS app via TestFlight. It charges $30 per month and delivers frequent beta updates to members, creating strong product affinity. The company has a long waiting list (reported at about 180k) but fewer than 15k onboarded subscribers. Mobile remains iterative compared with the desktop-first experience, and growth has relied heavily on word-of-mouth referrals and invitation-based signups. Financially, Superhuman recently completed a significant outside fundraise that gives it runway and options for how it scales going forward.

Total raised
$108M
Funding rounds
2
Latest round
Series C
Latest activity
Aug 2021

Industries

  • Email
  • Product Design
  • Productivity Tools
  • SaaS
  • Software
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Recent funding

  1. Series C

    Aug 2021

    $75M

  2. Series B

    Jun 2019

    $33M

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