# Josh Elkes

> Josh Elkes is a San Francisco-based co-founder and CEO of Harbour and SuperDoc. His background spans songwriting, content licensing and strategic development at businesses including Downtown Music and Getty Images. His public work also includes nonprofit partnerships, arts organizations and fundraising runs across Haiti.

- **Role:** Co-founder and CEO at Harbour and SuperDoc
- **Organizations:** Harbour, SuperDoc, Getty Images, Downtown Music, Viacom, FOND Group, Team Tassy, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, Guggenheim Museum, San Francisco Chamber Orchestra, OnePurpose School
- **Education:** The New School, School of Jazz and Contemporary Music
- **Known for:** Co-founded Harbour with Eric Doversberger., Announced a $15 million Series A for Harbour in October 2023., Co-founder and CEO of SuperDoc, an open-source document editor and developer platform.

## Career timeline

- **2011** — Ran his first marathon in New York.
- **2013** — Released the self-titled Josh Elkes EP; Bandcamp credits list May 12, 2013.
- **2015** — Participated in the 230-mile Run Across Haiti and began listed board service with Team Tassy.
- **2015-2019** — Listed board service with the San Francisco Chamber Orchestra.
- **2015-2020** — Listed board service with OnePurpose School.
- **2018** — Harbour’s own About page dates its founding to June 2018; some public profiles instead use 2019.
- **2019** — Began listed service on the Guggenheim Technology and Innovation Council.
- **2020** — Began listed service as a Lincoln Center leadership fellow.
- **2023** — Announced Harbour’s $15 million Series A led by Arnout Schuijff.
- **2025** — Promoted Harbour’s January SuperDoc editing and collaboration demonstration.
- **2026** — Publicly discussed SuperDoc’s VS Code extension and AI document workflows.

## Achievements

- Co-founded Harbour with Eric Doversberger.
- Announced a $15 million Series A for Harbour in October 2023.
- Co-founder and CEO of SuperDoc, an open-source document editor and developer platform.
- Released a 2013 EP with Neil Dorfsman and Clifford Carter among its producers.
- Helped fund creation of the Did You Know? digital science-book collection.
- Completed fundraising runs across Haiti; Harbour’s biography describes four crossings.

## Latest updates

- **2026-09** — Highlighted a team benchmark loading a footnote-heavy 400-page DOCX in about 12 seconds in V1 and under two in V2; the underlying demonstration was a controlled local test, not a general performance guarantee.
- **2026-04** — Celebrated community work on Word equation support and Nicolas Bernal’s CS50 document-editing talk.
- **2026-02** — Discussed Jamie Tso’s demonstration of coordinated multi-document AI editing with tracked changes.
- **2026-01** — Highlighted the SuperDoc VS Code extension and publicly shared a SuperDoc contact email.

## Links

- Website: https://www.harbourshare.com/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/joshelkes
- Twitter/X: https://x.com/josh_elkes
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/joshelkesmusic
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Josh-Elkes/131595953626462

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Last updated: 2026-10-24