# ReadMe

> ReadMe is a San Francisco software company that turns dry API references into interactive developer hubs. Founded in 2014 by Gregory Koberger, it lets companies build documentation from OpenAPI specs and Markdown, add a live API explorer where developers can make real calls, and track how those docs actually get used through developer metrics. It serves thousands of paying customers - including NVIDIA, Amazon, Cisco, PagerDuty and Airbnb - and has more recently added AI tooling and auto-generated MCP servers so documentation stays readable by both humans and AI agents.

- **Founded:** 2014
- **Headquarters:** San Francisco, California, USA
- **Founders:** Gregory Koberger (Founder & CEO)
- **Team size:** ~50-100 employees (52 reported on Y Combinator)
- **Products:** ReadMe Developer Hub, API Explorer / Try It, Developer Metrics (My Developers), Bi-directional Git Sync, ReadMe AI & Linter
- **Notable:** Bootstrapped-style growth: profitable for several years before raising a Series A., Grew from a solo side project to thousands of paying customers including NVIDIA and Amazon., Raised $9M Series A led by Accel in 2019 on roughly $10M total capital.

## Products & services

- **ReadMe Developer Hub** — Hosted platform for building interactive API documentation, guides, tutorials, changelogs and help centers from OpenAPI specs, Markdown and MDX.
- **API Explorer / Try It** — Interactive playground that lets developers make real API calls directly from the documentation page.
- **Developer Metrics (My Developers)** — Analytics on API usage and documentation, surfacing which pages underperform and how developers interact with the API.
- **Bi-directional Git Sync** — Two-way sync with GitHub and GitLab for docs-as-code workflows and branch-based review.
- **ReadMe AI & Linter** — AI-powered writing assistant and documentation linter that drafts, reviews and flags inconsistencies in docs.
- **MCP Servers** — Automatically generated Model Context Protocol servers from API docs, letting AI agents search, understand and execute APIs.

## Achievements

- Bootstrapped-style growth: profitable for several years before raising a Series A.
- Grew from a solo side project to thousands of paying customers including NVIDIA and Amazon.
- Raised $9M Series A led by Accel in 2019 on roughly $10M total capital.
- Y Combinator Winter 2015 alumnus.
- Early mover in AI documentation and MCP-server generation for AI agents.

## Latest updates

- **2026-02** — Published guidance on auto-generating MCP servers from API docs so AI agents can search and execute APIs directly.
- **2025** — Ran ReadMe Launch Week 2025 unveiling AI writing tools, a documentation linter, and MCP server support.
- **2024** — Introduced AI-powered writing and review tooling, including Agent Owlbert for doc review.

## Links

- Website: https://readme.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/readme
- Twitter/X: https://x.com/readme
- GitHub: https://github.com/readmeio

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Last updated: 2026-08-07