Literati
Publishing · Nonprofits & Foundations
$12.2Mtotal raised · 2 rounds on record
1hiring now · +1 posted in 30 days
$4.9Mlatest round · Venture round · Apr 2025 · 18 mo ago
4backers · General Catalyst, Moonshots Capital
Overview
Ignite a love of learning while fundraising for your school. Host a School Book Fair, join at Home Book Clubs or shop your School Store.
Funding and backers
Total raised
$12.2M
2 rounds on record
Latest round
$4.9M
Venture round · Apr 2025 · 18 mo ago
Team
111
US Form 5500 (plan participants) · Dec 2025 · -20% in a year
Hiring now
1
+1 posted in 30 days
Backers
4
General Catalyst, Moonshots Capital
The money's age
Due for its next round
18 months since the last round · and hiring
Momentum
28/100
hiring for its size, in the news
Last sign of life
1 mo ago
a posting or a news item
The story so fareach stage dated by its source: the company's releases, the press, registers, filings
2025
Team shrank to 111 was 139 · US Form 5500 (plan participants)
Apr 18, 2025
Raised a round Venture round $4.9M · SEC Form D
Dec 19, 2023
Raised a round Venture round $7.3M · SEC Form D
May 10, 2021
Released an app Literati Kids · App Store
Nov 1996
Website went live first capture in the Wayback Machine
Tractionpublic signals, read monthly
Web presence
top 0.05%
of 133.2M domains by links, Common Crawl
App Store
3.4 ★
51 ratings
Funding rounds
| Round | Date | Amount | Investors | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Venture round | Apr 2025 | $4.9M | — | SEC Form D |
| Venture round | Dec 2023 | $7.3M | — | SEC Form D |
Registers and programsofficial lists and records that name the company
| Legal entity | Literati, Inc. | SEC Form D |
Founders and leadersfrom filings, registers and the company's site
Jessica EwingExecutive Officer, DirectorSEC Form D
Cynthia AlexanderExecutive OfficerSEC Form D
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Growth
Hiring Momentum
57/100
Growing
Open positions
1
1 opened / 2 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
35 days
faster than 38% of the market
ATS activity
Every ~5 hours
Today
Hiring Dynamics
0%
Hiring Focus
The percentage next to each role is its share of the company's job openings over the last 90 days; the arrow shows the shift versus the previous period.
Operations
40% ▼
Management
20% ▲
Sales
20% ▼
Field & Service
20% ▲
Activity Timeline
Added Microsoft Office to stack
Oct 2026
Added Google Workspace to stack
Oct 2026
People
Jessica Ewing
Executive Officer, Director
Cynthia Alexander
Executive Officer
Aydin Senkut
Director
Nikhil Basu Trivedi
Director
Adam Freed
Director
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Tech stack
Technologies named in job postings at Literati over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
2
Postings analysed
4
Stack modernity
64/100
Frameworks & libraries
PyTorch
Developer tools
Microsoft Excel
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Connections
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Shared investors
Silverton PartnersVia a fund
Moonshots CapitalVia a fund
Western Technology InvestmentVia a fund
General CatalystVia a fund
610 portfolio companies
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News
Did AI Find Murakami's Voice? Student's $2 Experiment Divides China's Literati
A literature undergrad's AI tool made a near-perfect Mandarin version of Haruki Murakami's new novel in just four hours. What might this mean for translators and copyright holders?
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Literati Book Fairs Expand into Minneapolis with Start Reading Now Partnership
The arrangement will bring some 21 free Literati book fairs to Minneapolis schools in 2023 and will fund free books for kids in need.
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Former Netflix Exec Carla EngelbrechtJoins Subscription Book Company Literati
Carla Engelbrecht, the former director of product innovation at Netflix, has joined the book membership service Literati as its chief product officer.
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Frontiers Research on Emotion Analysis of Chinese Literati Painting Images Based on Deep Learning
Starting from a pure image perspective, using machine learning emotion analysis methods to research artworks is a new cross-cutting vision in the field of li...
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Literati Gets Big Money for Book Boxes
The Austin, Tex.-based book box subscription service has pulled in more than $50 million recently. Here
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Reese Witherspoon's Book Club, Hello Sunshine and Literati Partner to Deliver 11K Books to Los Angeles Area Kids
Literati, Hello Sunshine and Reese's Book Club have partnered to distribute 11,000 new books to The Book Foundation in Los Angeles, it was announced Friday.
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Sharper Image Literati Reader
With a 7-inch color screen, the Sharper Image Literati ebook reader looks good, but it's too slow and frustrating to use.
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The Sharper Image announces Literati color e-reader
The Sharper Image may not be quite the retail presence it once was, but it looks like it
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Offices
Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
2
Hiring now
1
Countries
1
Busiest office
Arlington
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Austin
United States
HQ
Arlington
United States
1 open roles 3 posted in 90 days 50-200 est. staff $42k Avg Salary
hires for Operations
Earlier presence
Elgin, United States