Superhuman, formerly Grammarly, acquires AI note-taking app Fathom

Meeting notes are meant to trigger further tasks within the Superhuman suite: email drafts, data updates, new appointments. The tool used by teams is changing owners, and the rules for processing recordings after the acquisition are not yet known.

Superhuman, which operated as Grammarly until October 2025, announced on September 14 that it had acquired Fathom. It is a Y Combinator-backed startup developing an AI meeting note-taker. Neither side disclosed the transaction amount. The information was reported by TechCrunch (opens in a new tab).

Fathom was founded in 2020 and has raised more than $30 million in funding. According to PitchBook data, investors valued it at $94 million in 2024. That amount is not the sale price. Thanks to an extensive free plan, the tool has more than 400,000 monthly active users, and more than a million people have recorded meetings with it so far.

Superhuman had previously tested its own note-taking tool with selected users, but ultimately bought a ready-made product. The company's CEO, Shishir Mehrotra, admitted in an interview with TechCrunch that the tests showed how difficult it is to build such a tool well. Fathom head Richard White, in turn, pointed to the buyer's reach: the Superhuman suite has about 40 million users.

In the suite, the note-taking tool will join the email client, documents, calendar, database, and the platform for building AI agents, that is, programs that perform tasks independently. Based on the arrangements from a meeting, the system is to prepare emails, update entries, schedule further meetings, and assign work to agents. Competition in the note-taking market is intense. Granola, Read AI, and Wispr have raised millions of dollars from investors, and in March 2026 Granola reached a valuation of $1.5 billion.

In a message to its community, Superhuman assures that for now nothing is changing for Fathom users: the app and login remain the same. It is not yet known, however, what rules will apply to the data. According to an analysis by Beri, Fathom's current policy allows the company's own models to be trained on anonymized meeting data, with an option to opt out in the account settings. Superhuman's privacy policy does not yet mention Fathom. Any new rules would apply to recordings made after they are introduced.

For companies, this is a signal to check who on the team records conversations in Fathom and with what settings. With individual accounts, decisions about data are made outside the IT department.