The company behind Elicit
Elicit
Elicit is made by Elicit Research, PBC, a venture-backed public benefit corporation that began inside the nonprofit research lab Ought and became independent in 2023. It earns money from Pro, Scale and Enterprise subscriptions, alongside a free Basic plan.
elicit.comRead on Oct 18, 2026 from the company’s own pages and from news reports.
Elicit at a glance
- Chief executive
- Andreas Stuhlmüller
- Based in
- Oakland, California, with team members across North America and Europe
- Raised in total
- over $30 million
- Last valuation
- $100M
- Reported Feb 26, 2025
- Latest round
- Series A, $22M
- Feb 26, 2025
- Ownership
- Privately held
Elicit's CEO and founders
The people Elicit names itself, or a news report about it names, with the job given there. Their accounts are the ones its own pages link to.
Elicit funding
Raised a $22 million Series A at a $100 million valuation, led by Spark Capital and Footwork, in February 2025, after a $9 million seed round led by Fifty Years in September 2023, both per its own blog. Its careers page says it is financed by over $30 million in venture capital. elicit.comelicit.comelicit.com
| When | Round | Amount | Investors |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 26, 2025 | Series A | $22M | Led by Spark Capital, Footwork. With Fifty Years, Basis Set, Mythos. elicit.com |
| Sep 25, 2023 | Seed | $9 million | Led by Fifty Years. With Basis Set, Illusian, Mythos, Julian, Tom Preston-Werner, Arash Ferdowsi, Thomas Ebeling, Jeff Dean. elicit.com |
Every investor named
- Fifty Years · led a round
- Footwork · led a round
- Spark Capital · led a round
- Basis Set
- Mythos
- Arash Ferdowsi
- Illusian
- Jeff Dean
- Julian
- Thomas Ebeling
- Tom Preston-Werner
Elicit valuation
$100M
Feb 26, 2025
Announced by Elicit itself in its February 2025 post on the $22 million Series A. elicit.com
A private company’s valuation is set when it raises money and is rarely updated in public. It is not a share price.
Company details
- Ownership
- Privately held. An independent public benefit corporation since it left the nonprofit Ought in 2023, per its own blog; its funding posts name Spark Capital, Footwork, Fifty Years, Basis Set and Mythos as investors. elicit.com
- Based in
- Oakland, California, with team members across North America and Europe elicit.com
- Hiring
- 10 open roles: 7 in engineering and machine learning (one a contract residency), 2 enterprise account executives and 1 in growth elicit.com
Elicit on social media and the web
- X (Twitter)x.com/elicitorg
- LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/elicit-research
- YouTubeyoutube.com/@elicit-research
- GitHubgithub.com/elicit
Only accounts Elicit links to from its own site, so you know they are its own.
How to contact Elicit
The ways Elicit publishes for reaching it. We don’t list personal email addresses, guessed or otherwise.
Elicit news and launches
Media kit
The Elicit media kit
Everything on this page as a designed PDF to keep or pass on: the facts, the people, the funding with a chart of every round, the products with their grades and pictures, the news and every official channel. Put together by ToolGPA, not by Elicit.
Questions about Elicit the company
Who is the CEO of Elicit?
Andreas Stuhlmüller is Elicit's cofounder & CEO, according to elicit.com, as read on Oct 18, 2026.
How much funding has Elicit raised?
Elicit's maker has raised over $30 million in total. Raised a $22 million Series A at a $100 million valuation, led by Spark Capital and Footwork, in February 2025, after a $9 million seed round led by Fifty Years in September 2023, both per its own blog. Its careers page says it is financed by over $30 million in venture capital.
Who are Elicit's investors?
The announcements name Fifty Years, Footwork, Spark Capital, Basis Set, Mythos, Arash Ferdowsi, Illusian, Jeff Dean, Julian, Thomas Ebeling and Tom Preston-Werner. Fifty Years, Footwork and Spark Capital led rounds.
When did Elicit last raise money?
The most recent round announced was in Feb 26, 2025: Series A, $22M, led by Spark Capital and Footwork.
What is Elicit's valuation?
$100M, as of Feb 26, 2025. Announced by Elicit itself in its February 2025 post on the $22 million Series A.
Who owns Elicit?
An independent public benefit corporation since it left the nonprofit Ought in 2023, per its own blog; its funding posts name Spark Capital, Footwork, Fifty Years, Basis Set and Mythos as investors.
Where is Elicit based?
Elicit gives its base as Oakland, California, with team members across North America and Europe.
Is Elicit hiring?
10 open roles: 7 in engineering and machine learning (one a contract residency), 2 enterprise account executives and 1 in growth.
Is Elicit on social media?
Elicit links to its own accounts on X (Twitter), LinkedIn, YouTube and GitHub. The links are on this page, taken from Elicit's own site.
Where this comes from
Read on Oct 18, 2026. Facts come from Elicit’s own pages, news reports and investors’ own announcements; nothing from paid data sites. What no page states is left out. If something here is out of date, the company can send a correction through the vendor page.