Scribe
AcquiredYC W17Bengaluru, IN · Founded 2016 · 15 employees · 8 known investors
Scribe provides an AI-powered sales assistant that automates prospecting, email personalization, objection handling, and meeting scheduling for inside sales teams. The tool helps sales organizations increase qualified meetings while reducing operational costs.
Also known as Scribe (YC W17)
Founders & leadership· Y Combinator alumni (W17)
Scribe was founded in 2016 by Sachin Bhat and Rutika Muchhala.
Investors · 8
Also in the syndicate · 1
Funding
SEC filings, press & company announcements$75M disclosed across 1 round · 2025
- $75MSeries CNov 2025 · 4 sources
StepStone (lead), Amplify Partners, Morado Ventures, New York Life Ventures, Redpoint Ventures, Tiger Global
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Source: company announcements and press reports — follow each round's link for the claim.
Company profile
researched Aug 2026Scribe (tryscribe.com) is an artificial-intelligence sales development representative (SDR) product aimed at inside sales teams. According to its Y Combinator company profile, the product identifies suitable prospects, writes personalized outreach emails, handles objections, and schedules demonstrations with pre-qualified leads, allowing human SDRs to concentrate on the warmest opportunities. The company describes the offering as an AI-powered sales assistant that a team can "hire" in under ten minutes.
The company was founded in 2016, took part in Y Combinator's Winter 2017 batch, and is listed by Y Combinator under the categories Artificial Intelligence, SaaS, and B2B. Its listed team size is 15 and its location is Bengaluru, India. Y Combinator marks the company's status as acquired; the sources available do not identify an acquirer or a transaction date.
Note on name collisions: several documents gathered under the name "Scribe" describe a San Francisco-based workflow documentation company founded in 2019 by Jennifer Smith and Aaron Podolny (scribe.com), and another describes TryScribe (tryscribe.in), an AI productivity tool suite for freelancers. Both are distinct organizations from the subject of this profile and their facts are excluded here.
Founding story
The available public sources do not describe the founding story beyond the founding year of 2016 and participation in Y Combinator's Winter 2017 batch. Y Combinator lists Sachin Bhat and Rutika Muchhala as founders; Muchhala's profile describes roughly ten years of B2B and B2C operating experience across seed- to Series D-stage software companies, Fortune 500 companies, and governments, and experience building and managing teams of more than 20 people including distributed teams.
Business model
Scribe sold a software-as-a-service sales assistant to inside sales organizations, positioned as a hireable AI sales development representative that could be onboarded in under ten minutes in place of, or alongside, human SDR capacity. The available sources do not disclose pricing, contract structure, or revenue figures.
Not disclosed in the available sources.
Traction
Y Combinator's listing reports a team size of 15 and states that customers achieved three times the number of qualified meetings at 50% of the cost. No user counts, revenue, or funding amounts are disclosed in the available sources.
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Market position
The available sources do not position the company relative to named competitors or provide market share, customer count, or revenue data. Y Combinator's listing notes backing from Y Combinator and unnamed Silicon Valley investors.
Y Combinator's listing states that customers were able to obtain three times the number of qualified meetings at half the cost, and positions the product as an AI worker that can be deployed in under ten minutes rather than as a tool requiring extensive setup. No independent verification of these claims appears in the available sources.
Technology
The product is described as AI-based, automating prospect identification, personalized email writing, objection handling, and demo scheduling. No detail on models, architecture, or data sources appears in the available material.
Go-to-market
The product was marketed to inside sales teams as a rapidly deployable substitute for additional SDR headcount, with the promised outcome framed in terms of more qualified meetings at lower cost. The available sources do not detail sales channels, partnerships, or marketing programs.
Inside sales teams and B2B sales organizations that rely on sales development representatives for outbound prospecting and meeting generation.
History
The company was founded in 2016 and participated in the Y Combinator Winter 2017 batch. Y Combinator lists the company with a team size of 15, a location of Bengaluru, India, and a status of "Acquired." No acquirer, transaction date, or deal terms are named in the available sources.
Compiled by commissioned research from 8 cited public sources — announcements, filings, and press listed under research sources below.
Key figures
latest reportedCompany-reported or press-reported figures, each dated to when it was claimed — not independently audited.
In the news
Early-stage Scribe wants to write IPO story even as investors favor derisked portfolios - BioSpacebiospace.com · Jul 2026▸Research sources · 8
primary sources listed
- AI-Powered Productivity Suite for Freelancers & Professionals | TryScribe | TryScribetryscribe.in · web
8 public sources were cited for this profile; the first-party ones are listed here.
Frequently asked questions
- What does Scribe do?
- YC W17 Bengaluru startup offering an AI sales development representative that prospects, emails, and books demos.
- Who founded Scribe?
- Scribe was founded by Sachin Bhat, Rutika Muchhala in 2016.
- Who are Scribe's investors?
- Scribe's investors include Amplify Partners, Redpoint Ventures, Y Combinator, Amplify Partners CV, Morado Ventures, New York Life Ventures, Tiger Global Management.
- How much funding has Scribe raised?
- Scribe has disclosed $75M raised across 1 round.
- Where is Scribe headquartered?
- Scribe is headquartered in Bengaluru, IN.