# Height

> Height was a New York-based software company that built an AI-native project management and collaboration tool for product teams. Founded in 2018 by ex-Stripe designer-engineer Michael Villar, Height combined tasks, chat, and adaptive workflows in one keyboard-first app, then pivoted to an 'autonomous' model in which an AI agent called Copilot handled the routine legwork of building software - triaging bugs, updating specs, pruning backlogs, and drafting standups. Backed by roughly $18.3M in venture funding, Height competed with Linear, Asana, and Jira before winding the product down in 2025.

- **Founded:** 2018
- **Headquarters:** New York, United States
- **Founders:** Michael Villar (CEO & Founder)
- **Team size:** ~7 employees
- **Products:** Height, Height Copilot, Autonomous Height (Height 2.0)
- **Notable:** Launched what it billed as the first-ever autonomous project collaboration tool for product builders (October 2024)., Raised roughly $18.3M in venture funding, including a $14M Series A., Attracted angel backing from prominent operators including Naval Ravikant and Mathilde Collin.

## Products & services

- **Height** — An all-in-one project management and collaboration app combining tasks, real-time chat, adaptive workflows, Kanban boards, Gantt/timeline views, forms, and integrations - designed to be keyboard-first and flexible enough to scale across a whole company.
- **Height Copilot** — An AI agent embedded in tasks and projects that brainstorms and drafts tasks, suggests assignees and lists, turns messages into subtasks, dedupes tasks, summarizes conversations, and auto-generates async standups.
- **Autonomous Height (Height 2.0)** — A rebuilt, AI-native version marketed as the first autonomous project collaboration tool: live product documentation that updates specs in real time, self-maintaining backlogs, automatic bug triage and assignment, and auto-drafted project updates and standups.

## Achievements

- Launched what it billed as the first-ever autonomous project collaboration tool for product builders (October 2024).
- Raised roughly $18.3M in venture funding, including a $14M Series A.
- Attracted angel backing from prominent operators including Naval Ravikant and Mathilde Collin.
- Adopted by fast-growing startups such as Fivetran, Playground AI, and Transcend.
- Built by a founder whose prior work at Stripe included Stripe Checkout, the Stripe iPhone app, and Stripe Atlas.

## Latest updates

- **2024-10** — Height unveiled its autonomous project collaboration tool, embedding an AI reasoning engine to automate bug triage, spec updates, backlog upkeep, and standups.
- **2025-03** — Height announced it would shut down, giving users roughly six months to migrate their data.
- **2025-09** — Height's final day of public service was September 24, 2025, after 3.5 years of public availability.

## Links

- Website: https://height.app
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/heightapp
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/height_app

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Last updated: 2026-07-20