Superhuman acquired AI meeting notetaker Fathom in a deal with undisclosed terms, the companies said. Fathom will keep operating as a standalone product. "Same app, same login, same product experience," Fathom CEO Richard White said in Superhuman's announcement.
Fathom, founded in 2020, has raised more than $30 million and was valued at $94 million in 2024, according to TechCrunch. The notetaker's free plan has driven more than 400,000 monthly active users, and over 1 million people have used it to record meetings, per the same report.
Superhuman CEO Shishir Mehrotra said the company tested building its own notetaker before deciding to buy instead: "A lot of these products make the job feel really easy, but it's actually quite tricky to do a great job in all parts," he said, according to TechCrunch. "Meeting notes are one of the clearest, most valuable places where AI can help," he added in Superhuman's own announcement.
Superhuman plans to feed meeting transcripts into its agents across email, documents, calendar and databases, so an agent could review a meeting, draft a status update and route it for approval without a person copying notes between tools, the company said.
The deal is another data point in a pattern: productivity platforms are buying, not building, the notetaking layer, then using that transcript data as the fuel for agents elsewhere in the product. Teams building standalone meeting tools are increasingly competing for an acquisition, not a market.