About

Raycast builds an extendable launcher for macOS, with a Windows beta and an iOS app. The pitch on the homepage is "a collection of powerful productivity tools all within an extendable launcher." Users featured on the site include Guillermo Rauch (Vercel), Koen Bok (Framer), Adam Wathan (Tailwind CSS), and Marques Brownlee.

Founded in 2020 by Thomas Mann (CEO) and Petr Nikolaev (CTO) out of Y Combinator W20. Raised $2.7M seed from Accel, $15M Series A in 2021 led by Accel and Coatue, and $30M Series B in 2024 led by Atomico.

Team

39 people across 16 countries, fully distributed across 3 timezones. The team has prior experience at Spotify, Facebook, Zoho, Google, HackerOne, and Rainbow. Stated values: speed, simplicity, transparency, trust, quality, inclusivity.