# Highlight

> Highlight is a San Francisco AI company building a shared intelligence layer for teams and AI agents. Its cross-platform desktop app captures on-screen context, meetings, messages, and documents, then weaves them into a unified team memory that drafts next steps across tools like Linear, Slack, Notion, and calendars. Spun out of game-clip company Medal in 2024, Highlight has grown past 500,000 users and raised a $40M Series A led by Khosla Ventures in March 2026, when former Discord product VP Sergei Sorokin became CEO.

- **Founded:** 2024
- **Headquarters:** San Francisco, California, United States
- **Founders:** Pim de Witte (Co-Founder & Chairman (Medal Co-Founder & CEO)), Joshua Lipson (Co-Founder & Chief Architect (Medal Co-Founder & CTO)), Sergei Sorokin (CEO (joined March 2026; former Discord VP of Product))
- **Team size:** Approximately 12 employees - a small team of engineers, designers, and researchers from Discord, Medal.tv, and Meta.
- **Products:** Highlight Desktop App, Meeting Intelligence, Shared Team Memory, Actions, Reminders & Skills, Model Choice & MCP Integrations
- **Notable:** Crossed 500,000+ users since launch, Raised $40M Series A led by Khosla Ventures (March 2026), Spun out of Medal as an independent company with $10M (October 2024)

## Products & services

- **Highlight Desktop App** — Cross-platform desktop assistant (Mac and Windows) that continuously captures - but does not permanently store - on-screen context locally, plus voice notes and documents, so users can ask an LLM questions grounded in what they were actually doing.
- **Meeting Intelligence** — Transcribes calls from system audio, auto-detects meetings, generates summaries and action items, and lets users search across multiple meetings and weeks of conversation.
- **Shared Team Memory** — A unified team memory engine that connects commitments and decisions from meetings, messages, and documents into context accessible across the whole team.
- **Actions, Reminders & Skills** — Automatically drafts next steps - Linear tickets, Slack messages, emails, Notion docs, calendar invites - sets reminders before deadlines, and automates recurring workflows via trigger-based skills.
- **Model Choice & MCP Integrations** — Lets users pick from models such as Claude, GPT/OpenAI, Gemini, and Perplexity, and connects to external apps through MCP tool integrations. Local processing for small models keeps data on-device.

## Achievements

- Crossed 500,000+ users since launch
- Raised $40M Series A led by Khosla Ventures (March 2026)
- Spun out of Medal as an independent company with $10M (October 2024)
- Recruited former Discord VP of Product Sergei Sorokin as CEO
- Reported adoption at major tech firms including Google and DoorDash

## Latest updates

- **2026-03** — Raised $40M Series A led by Khosla Ventures and appointed former Discord VP Sergei Sorokin as CEO; repositioned as the shared intelligence layer for the agentic age of work.
- **2024-10** — Spun out of Medal as an independent company with $10M led by General Catalyst.
- **2024-07** — Unveiled by Medal as an AI assistant platform alongside a $13M round at a $333M post-money valuation.

## Links

- Website: https://highlightai.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/tryhighlight
- Twitter/X: https://x.com/tryhighlight

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Last updated: 2026-06-15