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WRITER Appoints Dan Bikel as Head of AI to Accelerate Cutting-Edge Innovation in Enterprise Agentic AI
WRITER, the leading agentic AI platform for the enterprise, today announced the appointment of Dan Bikel as its first Head of AI. Bikel will lead WRITER’s in-house research lab to advance the technical engine behind WRITER’s end-to-end agent platform. Overseeing WRITER’s global research team, Bikel will drive foundational research across LLM development, retrieval systems, evaluation frameworks, and self-evolving models, strengthening the company’s position as both a frontier model provider and leader in enterprise AI innovation.
By WRITER · Via Business Wire · July 23, 2025
WRITER Appoints Jevan Soo Lenox as First Chief People Officer to Scale High-Performance, People-First Culture Alongside Rapid Growth
WRITER, the leading agentic AI platform for the enterprise, today announced the appointment of Jevan Soo Lenox to the newly-created role of Chief People Officer. The appointment comes at a pivotal moment for WRITER, as adoption of its platform surges among Fortune 500 companies and the company looks to expand the cultural foundation that has powered its growth to date.
By WRITER · Via Business Wire · July 10, 2025
Writer Named a Gartner® Cool Vendor for AI Agent Development
Writer, the leader in enterprise generative AI, today announced that it has been named a Cool Vendor in the inaugural 2025 Gartner® Cool Vendors™ report for AI Agent Development. Over the last 5 years, Writer has pioneered the enterprise AI category with the world’s only enterprise-focused AI research lab and now leads the industry with an end-to-end approach to agentic AI. Today, Writer’s platform enables IT and business teams from hundreds of leading enterprises to collaboratively build and scale AI agents that streamline workflows across departments.
By Writer · Via Business Wire · June 5, 2025
Writer’s AI Agent Platform Achieves ISO Certifications for Security, Privacy, and Responsible AI
Writer, a leader in enterprise generative AI, today announced it has successfully achieved certifications for security, privacy, and responsible AI under ISO/IEC 27001, 27701, and 42001. The company is one of the first model developers to complete the full ISO trust triad, underscoring its industry-leading commitment to building agentic AI systems and enterprise-grade LLMs that are reliable, controllable, and transparent.
By Writer · Via Business Wire · May 28, 2025
Writer Appoints Maureen Little as First SVP of Partnerships & Ecosystem to Scale Enterprise AI Agent Adoption through Strategic Alliances
Writer, the leader in enterprise generative AI, today announced the appointment of Maureen Little as the company’s first Senior Vice President of Partnerships & Ecosystem. With nearly three decades of experience scaling strategic partner ecosystems for global SaaS leaders, Little will rapidly expand Writer’s strategic alliances with the global systems integrators (GSIs), technology partners, and infrastructure providers that have helped its agent platform become the industry standard in delivering fast ROI. Leading Writer’s global partnerships team, she will fuel Writer’s growth and customer success by broadening commercial access and embedding Writer’s technology deeper into the core systems enterprises rely on.
By Writer · Via Business Wire · May 6, 2025
Writer Releases New Adaptive Reasoning LLM Palmyra X5 With 1M Context Window to Scale Next Era of Enterprise AI Agents
Writer, the leader in enterprise generative AI, today released its newest and most advanced foundation model, Palmyra X5. The state-of-the-art adaptive reasoning model features a 1 million token context window and industry-leading speed and cost efficiency. Additionally, Writer and Amazon Web Services (AWS), an Amazon.com, Inc. company (NASDAQ: AMZN) announced today the availability of Palmyra X5 in Amazon Bedrock, a fully managed service that offers developers access to high-performing models from leading AI companies through a single API.
By Writer · Via Business Wire · April 28, 2025
Writer Launches AI HQ to Revolutionize Agentic Work in the Enterprise
Writer, the leader in enterprise generative AI, today announced AI HQ: a new, centralized hub for enterprises to orchestrate agent-powered work. AI HQ unites IT and business users in an end-to-end platform with the tools to build, activate, and supervise AI agents. The platform includes a new low-code Agent Builder, deep AI observability tools, and access to a library of 100 ready-to-use agents for common tasks across finance, healthcare, retail, and technology, developed based on years of experience transforming work for Fortune 500 customers.
By Writer · Via Business Wire · April 10, 2025
68% of C-suite Say AI Adoption Has Caused Division at Their Company, Reveals Writer AI Report
Writer, the leading generative AI platform for the enterprise, today announced the release of its 2025 AI Survey: Generative AI Adoption in the Enterprise. The study, conducted in partnership with independent research firm Workplace Intelligence, provides a unique lens into the experiences of knowledge workers and C-suite executives actively using AI in the workplace.
By Writer · Via Business Wire · March 18, 2025
Writer Accelerates Global Expansion to Meet International Demand for Agentic AI in the Enterprise
Writer, the leader in enterprise generative AI, today announced a major global expansion across Europe, Asia-Pacific Japan (APJ), and the United States with new hubs in Singapore, Dublin, Chicago, and Austin. The company has also opened new, larger offices in San Francisco, New York, and London, while strengthening its leadership and advisory board as global demand for enterprise-ready AI solutions intensifies.
By Writer · Via Business Wire · March 6, 2025
Writer Raises $200M Series C at $1.9B Valuation to Fuel Leadership in Agentic Enterprise AI
Writer, the full-stack generative AI platform for the enterprise, today announced $200M in Series C venture funding at a $1.9 billion valuation. The round was co-led by Premji Invest, Radical Ventures, and existing investor ICONIQ Growth, with participation from investors including Salesforce Ventures, Adobe Ventures, B Capital, Citi Ventures, IBM Ventures, and Workday Ventures. Existing investors Accenture, Balderton, Insight Partners, and Vanguard also supported the round. Sandesh Patnam, Managing Partner at Premji Invest, and Rob Toews, Partner at Radical Ventures, will join Writer’s board of directors. The new capital will help cement the company’s leadership in the enterprise generative AI category and fuel Writer’s development of enterprise-grade agentic AI.
By Writer · Via Business Wire · November 12, 2024
Writer Releases New Frontier Model Palmyra X 004 to Add Intelligent Action to Enterprise AI Applications
Writer, the full-stack generative AI platform for the enterprise, today released its newest large language model (LLM) to power the next generation of AI applications and agents. Palmyra X 004 offers the most accurate and reliable way for enterprises to enable actions within generative AI applications. The new frontier model ranks at the top of Berkeley’s Tool Calling Leaderboard by a significant margin, besting model providers including OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta, and Google. It also debuted as one of the top-ranked models on Stanford University’s Holistic Evaluation of Language Models (HELM) benchmark.
By Writer · Via Business Wire · October 9, 2024
Writer Releases State-of-the-Art Specialized LLMs to Revolutionize Healthcare and Financial Services AI Applications
Writer, the full-stack generative AI platform delivering transformative ROI for the world’s leading enterprises, today announced Palmyra-Med-70b and Palmyra-Fin-70b, two industry-leading specialized large language models (LLMs) specifically designed for the healthcare and financial services industries. Beginning today, these cutting-edge models are available as open models from NVIDIA, Baseten, and Hugging Face, as well as via the Writer Platform. They bring unparalleled domain expertise and accuracy to medical and financial generative AI applications, surpassing the performance of comparable models with single (zero-shot) attempts.
By Writer · Via Business Wire · July 31, 2024
Enterprise AI Platform Writer Announces New C-Suite Executives to Support Accelerating Growth Trajectory
Writer, the full-stack generative AI platform delivering transformative ROI for the world’s leading enterprises, today announced the appointment of three additional C-suite officers to help drive the company’s next phase of growth and market leadership. These strategic hires come at a time of rapid expansion for Writer, which has grown its customer base to over 250 enterprise organizations, including Vanguard, Intuit, L’Oreal, and Accenture, and tripled revenue year over year.
By Writer · Via Business Wire · June 20, 2024
Writer Launches First-Ever Collaborative AI Studio to Empower Technical and Non-technical Users to Build AI Apps and Workflows for the Enterprise
Today, Writer, the full-stack generative AI platform for enterprises, announced Writer AI Studio, a suite of new development tools that make it fast and easy for business users and developers to reinvent workflows with generative AI. Now live for all Writer customers, AI Studio solves a critical and previously unsolved problem holding back generative AI: how to bring in the business users who have the data, know-how and context to collaborate with AI engineers on the “last mile” of AI application development.
By Writer · Via Business Wire · June 5, 2024
Writer CEO May Habib Joins World Economic Forum’s Young Global Leaders Class of 2024
Today CEO and co-founder of Writer, the full-stack enterprise generative AI platform, May Habib announced her inclusion in the 2024 World Economic Forum (WEF) Young Global Leaders, a prestigious group recognized for their impact in their respective fields on a global scale. This year’s cohort, selected for their contribution in improving the state of the world, is made up of a remarkable group of rising stars from technology, politics, business, civil society, the arts and academia.
By Writer · Via Business Wire · April 8, 2024
Enterprise AI Platform, Writer, Joins Davos, the Annual Meeting 2024 Unicorn Community
Writer, the leading full-stack generative AI platform for enterprises, announced its membership to the World Economic Forum's (WEF) Unicorn Community and participation in the 2024 World Economic Forum's Annual Meeting in Davos. With a membership to the Forum's Unicorn Community, Writer is joining the world’s highest-valued startups and world leaders responsible for production innovation with a mission to improve society through AI.
By Writer · Via Business Wire · November 16, 2023
Writer, the Full-Stack Generative AI Platform, Announces $100 Million Series B to Help Deliver Generative AI to the Enterprise
Writer, the leading full-stack generative AI platform for enterprises, announced its Series B funding round of $100 million today. The round is being led by ICONIQ Growth with participation from WndrCo, Balderton Capital and Insight Partners, who led the Series A, and Aspect Ventures, who led the Seed. In addition, this round includes participation from several Writer customers such as Accenture and Vanguard. With this financing, ICONIQ Growth’s Doug Pepper has joined the board.
By Writer · Via Business Wire · September 18, 2023
Writer AI Large Language Models Achieve Top Scores on Stanford HELM
Writer, the leading generative AI platform for enterprises, announced today that Palmyra, its family of large language models (LLMs), has achieved top benchmark scores from Stanford’s Holistic Evaluation of Language Models (HELM), demonstrating its leadership in the generative AI field.
By Writer · Via Business Wire · July 17, 2023
Writer, the AI Writing Assistant for Companies, Secures $21 Million in Series A Funding Led by Insight Partners
Writer, the AI writing assistant for professional users, announced today a $21 million Series A funding round as the company transforms the way people write. The financing was led by New York-based global private equity and venture capital firm Insight Partners with a slew of top machine learning experts, SaaS operators, writers, and CEOs participating, including Gradient Ventures, the Todd & Rahul Angel Fund, Scott Belsky, Oliver Jay, Jack Altman, Allison Pickens, Packy McCormick, Lenny Rachitsky, Austin Rief, Ankur Nagpal, Alex MacCaw, Camille Ricketts, Vivek Sodera, Julia Lipton, and James Beshara. The funding will be used to invest in product, engineering, and GTM hiring.
By Writer · Via Business Wire · November 15, 2021