Elicit
Elicit, the AI research assistant, helps you automate time-consuming research tasks like summarizing papers, extracting data, and synthesizing your findings. We're a public benefit company with a mission to scale up good reasoning. We want machine learning to help as much with thinking and reflection as it does with tasks that have clear short-term outcomes.
Elicit
Elicit, the AI research assistant, helps you automate time-consuming research tasks like summarizing papers, extracting data, and synthesizing your findings. We're a public benefit company with a mission to scale up good reasoning. We want machine learning to help as much with thinking and reflection as it does with tasks that have clear short-term outcomes.
TL;DR
Product: AI research assistant for literature search, extraction, and summarization
Corporate form: Public benefit corporation
Founders / leadership: Andreas Stuhlmüller (Co-founder & CEO), Jungwon Byun (Co-founder & COO)
Recent funding: $9M seed (Sep 2023) and $22M Series A (Feb 2025)
Monthly active users (reported): 400,000+ researchers per month (reported Feb 2025)
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Company Overview
Problem Domain
Research workflows and literature review automation
Industry
AI / Research software
Funding Track Record
$9,000,000
Company became a public benefit corporation concurrent with the seed round; angel participation reported
$22,000,000
Existing investors including Fifty Years, Basis Set, and Mythos participated
Investor Signal
“Participation from deep-tech and early-stage investors (Fifty Years, Basis Set, Mythos) plus prominent angels; Series A led by institutional firms Spark Capital and Footwork”