Archbee raises $3M to rethink documentation

I’m thrilled to share that, after graduating from YC’s S21 batch, we have raised a $2M seed round led by Global Founders Capital and Credo Ventures. This round comes just a few months after Inovo Venture Partners led our $1M pre-seed.

At Archbee, we’re big believers in the power of asynchronous communication. When most people hear that term, they immediately think of messaging tools like Slack or workspace tools like Confluence, Notion, Microsoft Loop, or even Google Docs. These tools are essential to keeping teams running smoothly and offer a ton of features to help them organize their work better.

For developers—and really anyone in the product world—the situation looks different. Restricting async tooling to internal knowledge overlooks the most important group of all: customers. Delivering meaningful customer experiences usually starts with strong product documentation—everything from onboarding guides to API references—so docs are among the most mission-critical forms of async communication a business relies on. Poor or nonexistent product docs lead to weak customer activation. And the more technical the product, the more essential this documentation typically becomes.

Although tools exist that simplify creating customer-facing documentation, they often fail to deliver the usability and speed modern teams expect. More importantly, they largely overlook the technical communities that make up their primary user base, focusing instead on a set of generalist features.

This is where Archbee comes in. We’re on a mission to deliver the #1 documentation tool for technical teams, both for internal and customer-facing use cases. Archbee provides all the features you need to make and host awesome product docs that customers and developers will love. Given our mission, we’ve paid special attention to technical features and offer things like native technical diagrams, automated conversion of OpenAPI spec to a beautiful UI, GraphQL APIs, changelogs, and much more. While Archbee is great for customer-facing product docs, our blazingly fast editor can also be used in a more general way for internal usage.

But we aren’t stopping there…

As we continue to ship a top-notch product and integrate user feedback, we see an opportunity to fundamentally improve the documentation process. That means making Archbee not only your #1 choice for creating and editing docs, but also a tool that keeps those docs relevant by (i) keeping them up to date with the code and product components they reference and (ii) enabling you to design documentation workflows tailored to your team’s setup and existing tooling. We see a world where Archbee acts as a modern command center for any kind of technical writing, and with this latest fundraising we are well on our way to getting there.

Thank you to our wonderful team (Claudiu, Petre, Daniel, and George) for believing in the mission and working incredibly hard to deliver a product we are all proud of.

Thank you to our investors (GFC, Credo, Inovo, and YC) and our wonderful business angels for supporting us and pushing us to dream big.

Finally, to our customers: thank you for the trust and the amazing feedback we’ve received so far. We look forward to seeing you grow with us :)

👋 Dragos