# Archbee

> Archbee is a privately held documentation software company founded in 2019 and backed by Y Combinator. Its platform combines collaborative authoring, publishing, API references, versioning, reusable content and AI-assisted answers in knowledge portals. An Archbee guide to user adoption cites retention research associated with Localytics, which Upland Software acquired in 2020. That modest citation points to a useful product principle: good documentation can shorten the distance between user intent and a successful outcome, making docs part of onboarding, support and product design rather than an afterthought.

## Achievements

- Accepted into Y Combinator's Summer 2021 batch.
- Built a documentation platform used for public portals, internal knowledge bases, product guides and API references.
- Publicly lists backing from Y Combinator, Global Founders Capital, Credo Ventures and Inovo.vc.
- Its official site says more than 3,000 companies use Archbee knowledge portals.

## Latest updates

- **2026-06** — Archbee's LinkedIn page highlighted quarterly releases including command-line workflows, OIDC authentication, inline TeX, language support and versioning improvements.
- **2026-04** — The company highlighted broken-link checks, multi-product and multilingual publishing, collaboration integrations and OpenAPI improvements.

## Links

- Website: https://www.archbee.com/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/archbee

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Last updated: 2026-08-08