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Type

YC W23

New York City, US · Founded 2023 · 5 employees · 4 known investors

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A writing platform that offers AI-assisted writing with access to premium models from Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google. The service targets writers and content creators with both free and subscription-based plans.

Founders & leadership· Y Combinator alumni (W23)

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Stew Fortierin𝕏Founder

Investors · 4

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Amino CapitalPalo Alto · $100K – $10M

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Ascend Venture CapitalSeattle · $250K – $750K

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South Quad

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Y CombinatorSan Francisco · $500K

Competitors · 9

by search overlap

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Quillbot2314 shared keywordsQuillBot Teams is a writing-assistance product for teams, offering all its Premium features plus writer-management dashboards and centralized billing. It is aimed at helping teams communicate clearly across their work.

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View Intro Deck1710 shared keywords

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Grammarly1622 shared keywordsGrammarly is an AI-powered writing assistant that helps users write with clarity and confidence across over 1 million apps and websites. The platform serves professionals, students, and teams through free and premium versions, and uses natural language processing to refine tone, suggest rewrites, and improve communication effectiveness.

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Ahrefs1131 shared keywordsAhrefs is an SEO and marketing platform that provides tools and data for keyword research, competitor analysis, content creation, site auditing, rank tracking, and monitoring brand visibility across search engines and AI chatbots. It serves marketers and enterprises, offering an API, custom dashboards, and AI-driven insights for improving search rankings and traffic.

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CopyAI1099 shared keywords

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Sudowrite1003 shared keywords

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Hyperwriteai864 shared keywordsHyperWrite is an AI writing assistant delivered as a Chrome extension and web app, offering predictive autocomplete, web search, citations, and hundreds of tools to create, edit, and refine text. It targets writers, students, and professionals for tasks like academic research, document editing, and email drafting.

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SEMrush860 shared keywordsSemrush provides competitive intelligence, SEO, keyword research, and content generation tools for growth marketers and small teams to improve visibility and optimize their acquisition funnel across Google and AI search.

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Simplified791 shared keywords

Companies competing with Type for the same Google search keywords, organic and paid, via search-intersection analysis.