The company behind Raycast
Raycast
Raycast is made by Raycast Technologies Ltd., a venture-backed company registered in England and Wales that its two founders started at Y Combinator in 2020. It earns money from Pro, Teams and Enterprise subscriptions on top of a free plan, and also makes the Glaze app builder.
raycast.comRead on Oct 18, 2026 from the company’s own pages and from news reports.
Raycast at a glance
- Chief executive
- Thomas Paul Mann
- Founded
- 2020
- Based in
- London, with a fully remote team based in Europe
- Latest round
- Series B, $30 million
- Sep 25, 2024
- Team
- 39 people
- Ownership
- Privately held
Raycast's CEO and founders
The people Raycast names itself, or a news report about it names, with the job given there. Their accounts are the ones its own pages link to.
Raycast funding
Raised a $30 million Series B led by Atomico in September 2024, according to its own announcement and TechCrunch, which named Accel, Coatue, Y Combinator, Atlassian's venture arm and World Innovation Lab as taking part. Earlier: a $15 million Series A led by Accel and Coatue in November 2021, and a $2.7 million seed round led by Accel in October 2020. raycast.comtechcrunch.comraycast.comraycast.com
| When | Round | Amount | Investors |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 25, 2024 | Series B | $30 million | Led by Atomico. With Accel, Coatue, Y Combinator, World Innovation Lab, Thomas Dohmke, Tobi Lütke, Guillermo Rauch. techcrunch.com |
| Nov 30, 2021 | Series A | $15 million | Led by Accel, Coatue. With Koen Bok, Karri Saarinen, David Cramer. raycast.com |
| Oct 29, 2020 | Seed | $2.7 million | Led by Accel. With Y Combinator, Chapter One, Charlie Cheever, Calvin French-Owen, Manik Gupta, Zach Holman. raycast.com |
Every investor named
- Accel · led 2 rounds
- Coatue · led a round
- Atomico · led a round
- Y Combinator
- Calvin French-Owen
- Chapter One
- Charlie Cheever
- David Cramer
- Guillermo Rauch
- Karri Saarinen
- Koen Bok
- Manik Gupta
- Thomas Dohmke
- Tobi Lütke
- World Innovation Lab
- Zach Holman
Company details
- Ownership
- Privately held and venture-backed: its own funding announcements and careers page name Accel, Coatue and Atomico among its investors, and its pages name no parent company. raycast.com
- Founded
- 2020 raycast.com
- Based in
- London, with a fully remote team based in Europe techcrunch.com
- Team
- A fully remote team of 39 people raycast.com
- Affiliate program
- 30% commission on all payments from users an affiliate brings to Raycast Pro, who get 10% off. Run through Rewardful; paid via Wise once commissions pass £50, after 30 days pending, as announced in July 2024. raycast.com
- Referral program
- Pro users get a limited number of promo codes through the Share Raycast command; a new user who signs up with one gets a free month of Pro, and so does the referrer. raycast.com
Jobs at Raycast
Any open roles at Raycast are on its own careers page. We can’t read a count from there, so have a look.
Applications go to Raycast, not to us.
Raycast on social media and the web
Only accounts Raycast links to from its own site, so you know they are its own.
How to contact Raycast
The ways Raycast publishes for reaching it. We don’t list personal email addresses, guessed or otherwise.
Raycast news and launches
- Sep 10, 2026Why We're Changing How Raycast AI Is Priced
- Jul 1, 2026Meet Glaze
- May 14, 2026The New Raycast
- Mar 4, 2026Introducing Glaze
Media kit
The Raycast 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 Raycast.
Questions about Raycast the company
Who is the CEO of Raycast?
Thomas Paul Mann is Raycast's CEO & Co-Founder, according to raycast.com, as read on Oct 18, 2026.
Who founded Raycast?
Thomas Paul Mann and Petr Nikolaev are named as founders of Raycast, which was founded in 2020.
How much funding has Raycast raised?
Raised a $30 million Series B led by Atomico in September 2024, according to its own announcement and TechCrunch, which named Accel, Coatue, Y Combinator, Atlassian's venture arm and World Innovation Lab as taking part. Earlier: a $15 million Series A led by Accel and Coatue in November 2021, and a $2.7 million seed round led by Accel in October 2020.
Who are Raycast's investors?
The announcements name Accel, Coatue, Atomico, Y Combinator, Calvin French-Owen, Chapter One, Charlie Cheever, David Cramer, Guillermo Rauch, Karri Saarinen, Koen Bok and Manik Gupta, and 4 more. Accel, Coatue and Atomico led rounds.
When did Raycast last raise money?
The most recent round announced was in Sep 25, 2024: Series B, $30 million, led by Atomico.
What is Raycast's valuation?
No valuation was found in Raycast's announcements or in news reports, as read on Oct 18, 2026. Private companies usually do not publish one.
Who owns Raycast?
Privately held and venture-backed: its own funding announcements and careers page name Accel, Coatue and Atomico among its investors, and its pages name no parent company.
Where is Raycast based?
Raycast gives its base as London, with a fully remote team based in Europe.
How many people work at Raycast?
A fully remote team of 39 people.
Is Raycast on social media?
Raycast links to its own accounts on X (Twitter), YouTube and GitHub. The links are on this page, taken from Raycast's own site.
Does Raycast have an affiliate program?
30% commission on all payments from users an affiliate brings to Raycast Pro, who get 10% off. Run through Rewardful; paid via Wise once commissions pass £50, after 30 days pending, as announced in July 2024.
Where this comes from
Read on Oct 18, 2026. Facts come from Raycast’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.