Notion

Company research

Public company, workplace, funding, and market signals

Updated Aug 5, 2026

Overview

Notion is a privately held AI-native workspace company whose product combines documents, wikis, databases, projects, calendars, enterprise search, meeting notes, integrations, and AI agents in one connected workspace. Notion reports more than 100 million users and broad enterprise adoption.

Primary product

Notion AI workspace: collaborative docs, wikis, databases, projects, calendar, enterprise search, meeting notes, and customizable AI agents.

Founded

2013

Headquarters

San Francisco, California, United States

Team size

Approximately 800–1,200 publicly reported; some 2026 company databases estimate approximately 1,850, so public estimates conflict.

Work style

Hybrid

Industry

Software development

Sub-industry

Productivity, collaboration, knowledge-management, and AI workspace SaaS

Offices

San Francisco, United States

New York, United States

Dublin, Ireland

Seoul, South Korea

Hyderabad, India

Tokyo, Japan

Sydney, Australia

Business model

Freemium self-serve SaaS

Per-member team subscriptions

Enterprise contracts

AI and agent usage credits

Platform and integrations ecosystem

Funding

Stage

Late-stage, private, Series D / generating revenue

Total raised

$418M

Latest round

Employee secondary tender offer / private share sale · Jan 2026

Latest amount

$270M

Series D

Sep 2021 · Coatue and Sequoia Capital

$275M

Series C

Mar 2020 · Index Ventures

$50M

Angel

Jul 2019 · Daniel Adkins, Aydin Senkut, Ram Shriram, Josh Kopelman, Lashy Groom, and Elad Gil

$18.2M

Series A

Jan 2017 · Draft Ventures

Seed

Oct 2016 · Magna

People & investors

Leadership

Ivan Zhao

Co-founder and CEO

Akshay Kothari

Co-founder and Chief Operating Officer

Simon Last

Co-founder

Founders

Jessica Lam

Former co-founder

Toby Schachman

Co-founder

Investors

Hyde Park Venture Partners

Work & culture

Notion describes a customer-focused, product-obsessed culture emphasizing ownership, speed, direct and kind communication, and in-person collaboration. Its stated values include Customer in every room, Own the outcome, Why not today, and Direct and kind. The company generally expects office attendance three days per week, while some roles are remote or location-specific.

Work style

Hybrid

Compensation

Public job postings provide role- and location-specific compensation in some jurisdictions, but no single company-wide range was established from reliable primary evidence. Third-party estimates describe competitive salary plus private-company equity, but should be treated as directional rather than verified.

Benefits

Medical, dental, and vision insurance, with most premiums covered

Mental-health support, therapy, coaching, medication management, and EAP

Gender-affirming care funds

Monthly lifestyle stipend

Commuter funds

Phone stipend

Lunch and snacks

Notion x Art Pass

Paid parental leave

Carrot fertility and family-forming benefits

Retirement and pension plans with company match

Flexible paid vacation and holidays

Company-wide year-end closure

Learning and training funds

Product & market

Pricing

Free tier; Plus at approximately $10/member/month; Business at approximately $20/member/month; Enterprise custom pricing. AI agents and related functionality can use additional credits.

Differentiators

—All-in-one combination of docs, wiki, databases, projects, and workflows
—Highly flexible, composable pages and databases
—Product-led adoption and a large template/community ecosystem
—AI grounded in workspace context rather than a standalone chat window
—Enterprise search, meeting notes, agents, and workflow automation in one product
—Developer platform, integrations, API, MCP, Workers, and external-agent support

Technology

TypeScript

GraphQL

Redis

Snowflake

TensorFlow

PyTorch

OpenAI models

Anthropic models

GitHub

Docker

Kubernetes or containerized infrastructure

Azure

Elasticsearch

CircleCI

Customers

Vercel

OpenAI

Ramp

Baseten

Clay

Remote

Brainlabs

Rakuten France

Figma

Kaiser Permanente

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries

Nvidia

Volvo Cars

Amazon

Nike

Competitors

Microsoft Loop

Atlassian Confluence

Coda

Asana

Monday.com

ClickUp

Airtable

Linear

Evernote

Slite

Scale & contact

Estimated revenue

Approximately $400 million–$500 million annualized revenue, based on reported 2024 revenue estimates and Notion's September 2025 disclosure of more than $500 million annualized revenue.

Estimated monthly visits

134.1M

Traffic estimate as of Jul 2025

Signals & risks

Other

Jan 2026

A $270 million employee tender offer/private share sale was reported at an approximately $11 billion valuation. This was secondary liquidity rather than clearly disclosed primary operating capital.

Source

Latest news

Meet Notion’s Board of Directors

Notion · Jun 2026

Notion announced its first board of directors, including Jonathan Chadwick, Pat Grady, Gretchen Howard, Christopher Payne, and Patrick Hsu.

Notion’s Developer Platform is here

Notion · May 2026

Notion announced Workers, a hosted runtime for custom code, database sync, webhooks, a CLI, external-agent support, and expanded developer capabilities.

GIC invests in AI workspace Notion through US$270 million employee share sale

The Business Times · Jan 2026

GIC joined Sequoia and Index Ventures in a reported $270 million employee tender offer valued at an $11 billion company valuation; the article also describes Notion's APAC expansion and accelerating AI adoption.

Notion launches AI agent as it crosses $500 million in annual revenue

CNBC · Sep 2025

Notion launched customizable agents using models including OpenAI and Anthropic and disclosed more than $500 million in annualized revenue, over 100 million users, and enterprise customers including Kaiser Permanente, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Nvidia, and Volvo Cars.

100 Million of You

Notion · Sep 2024

Ivan Zhao announced that Notion had reached 100 million users and discussed the company's product and technical evolution.

Jobs and careers at Notion

128 jobs at Notion

Manager, Solutions Consultants, UKI

On-site

Sales

London, United Kingdom; London, United Kingdom, United Kingdom

1d ago

On-site

Full-time