Raycast at a glance
Question | Answer | As of |
|---|---|---|
Who owns Raycast? | Its founders, staff and investors including Accel, Coatue and Atomico; it is private | Nov 2026 |
Valuation | Never disclosed | Nov 2026 |
Funding | About $47.7 million in three rounds; the last, a $30 million Series B, was led by Atomico | Sep 2024 |
Revenue | Not disclosed | Nov 2026 |
Users | Hundreds of thousands of people every day | Mar 2026 |
Plans | Free; Pro $10, Plus $20 and Max $50 a month | Sep 2026 |
CEO | Thomas Paul Mann, co-founder | Nov 2026 |
Founded | 2020, in London, by Thomas Paul Mann and Petr Nikolaev | 2020 |
Employees | 39, fully remote, across 17 countries | 2026 |
Email format | {first}@raycast.com, such as maya@raycast.com | Nov 2026 |
Raycast replaces the Mac’s Spotlight with a command bar that opens apps, searches files, manages windows and the clipboard, and runs more than 3,000 extensions for tools like Slack, Notion and GitHub, which its users write in the open (GitHub). Raycast AI puts models from OpenAI, Anthropic and others in the same bar.
What’s new at Raycast in 2026
On August 25, 2026, Raycast 2.0 came out of beta: a rewrite “rebuilt from the ground up” that runs on both macOS and Windows (Raycast). “With this release, Raycast v2 replaces v1,” its changelog says (Raycast). The Windows app, in public beta since November 2025, moved to the same version.
Raycast also launched Glaze, which builds Mac apps from a chat: a private beta in March and open to everyone from July 1, 2026 (Raycast). In September it moved Raycast AI to monthly credits, kept Pro at $10 and added a $50 Max plan, because “we can’t subsidize it the way the big model labs can” (Raycast).
Who owns Raycast?
Raycast is private and venture-backed. The company that raised its rounds is Raycast Technologies Inc., a Delaware corporation; it owns 100% of the UK company, Raycast Technologies Ltd., incorporated on January 9, 2020 (Companies House). Accel led the seed round and co-led the Series A with Coatue; Atomico led the Series B, with Y Combinator and Atlassian Ventures among the other investors. The founders and staff hold the rest; their stakes aren’t public.
What is Raycast’s revenue?
Raycast doesn’t publish revenue. “We don’t share much about revenue,” Thomas Paul Mann said in 2024, adding that the Pro plan “basically unlocked the fundraise” (TechCrunch). It earns money from Pro and Teams subscriptions, sold since May 2023 (Raycast), and from enterprise contracts.
Its UK subsidiary files small-company accounts without a profit and loss account. For the year to January 31, 2026 they show it owing its US parent £18.3 million, up from £13.2 million a year earlier (Companies House): the parent funds the UK team. Those figures cover the subsidiary, not the whole company.
Raycast ARR (annual recurring revenue)
Not published. Raycast has never given an ARR figure or a count of paying subscribers, and we don’t estimate one. Figures on data sites are guesses that disagree with each other by millions of dollars.
Raycast MRR (monthly recurring revenue)
Raycast doesn’t publish MRR, and with no ARR figure there is nothing to divide.
Raycast pricing
Plan | Price | What it adds |
|---|---|---|
Free | $0 | All built-in extensions, such as clipboard history and window management, and every public extension; free for organizations too (Raycast) |
Pro | $10 a month | Raycast AI with 500 credits a month, cloud sync, dictation and custom themes |
Plus | $20 a month | 3,000 AI credits and frontier models; launched as Pro+, formerly Advanced AI |
Max | $50 a month | 7,500 AI credits; new in September 2026 |
Teams Pro | $15 per user a month | Unlimited shared commands, quicklinks and snippets, and a private store; Plus and Max tiers for teams cost $25 and $65 |
Enterprise | Custom | SSO, SCIM and AI controls; SOC 2 Type II (Raycast) |
How much has Raycast raised? Funding and valuation
About $47.7 million in three rounds. Raycast has never disclosed a valuation, and no round has been reported since the Series B in September 2024.
Round | Date | Amount | Lead | Valuation |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Series B | Sep 25, 2024 | $30M | Atomico (Tech.eu) | Not disclosed |
Series A | Nov 30, 2021 | $15M | Accel and Coatue (Raycast) | Not disclosed |
Seed | Oct 29, 2020 | $2.7M | Accel (Raycast) | Not disclosed |
Y Combinator | Winter 2020 | Not disclosed | Y Combinator | Not disclosed |
Angel investors include Shopify’s Tobi Lütke, Vercel’s Guillermo Rauch and former GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke in the Series B, and Linear’s Karri Saarinen and Framer’s Koen Bok in the Series A. The Series B paid for the Windows and iPhone apps.
What does Raycast make? Products
Mann and Nikolaev built Raycast for developers fed up with clicking through tools: “a command line inspired interface for quickly accessing their tools,” as they described it at launch in October 2020. It opened its extension store in 2021, added a version for teams in 2022 and AI in 2023, then went beyond the Mac with an iPhone app in April 2025 (Raycast) and Windows in November 2025 (Raycast).
Date | Launch |
|---|---|
Sep 10, 2026 | AI credits, the Plus (Pro+) and Max plans, and linking ChatGPT and Claude subscriptions |
Aug 25, 2026 | Raycast 2.0 out of beta on macOS and Windows |
Jul 1, 2026 | Glaze opens to everyone |
May 14, 2026 | Raycast 2.0 public beta, a cross-platform rewrite |
Mar 4, 2026 | Glaze private beta: desktop apps built from a chat |
Nov 20, 2025 | Raycast for Windows, public beta |
May 8, 2025 | Model Context Protocol (MCP) support |
Apr 30, 2025 | Raycast for iOS |
Feb 26, 2025 | AI Extensions, beta |
May 10, 2023 | Raycast Pro, the first paid plan, with Raycast AI |
Jul 20, 2022 | Raycast for Teams |
Nov 30, 2021 | Extensions API and Store open to all |
Oct 29, 2020 | Public beta on Mac |
Raycast vs Alfred, Spotlight and PowerToys
Raycast’s oldest rival on the Mac is Alfred, a launcher funded by sales of its paid Powerpack. Apple rebuilt Spotlight with actions and shortcuts in macOS Tahoe in 2025, and on Windows Microsoft offers the free PowerToys Command Palette (Microsoft). Raycast AI also competes with the ChatGPT and Claude desktop apps, though since September 2026 Pro users can connect those subscriptions to Raycast.
Who is the CEO of Raycast?
Thomas Paul Mann, who co-founded Raycast in 2020 with Petr Nikolaev, now CTO. They had worked on the same team at Facebook in London, building Spark AR, and started Raycast from a menu-bar tool they made for Facebook’s internal issue tracker.
Person | Role |
|---|---|
Thomas Paul Mann | Co-founder and CEO |
Petr Nikolaev | Co-founder and CTO |
Daniel Sequeira | Head of business operations |
Beth Staff | Head of finance, formerly at Sylvera and Tessian |
Miguel Caetano Dias | Founding go-to-market lead, formerly at Cloudflare |
Luca Eisenstecken | Board member, partner at Atomico, since the Series B |
Thomas Paul Mann’s bio and contact routes: Raycast CEO Thomas Paul Mann: email, LinkedIn and bio.
Where is Raycast based?
Raycast was founded in London, where both founders live, but has no office: it is “a fully distributed company with 39 people … spread across 17 different countries” (Raycast), and pays the same salary for a role wherever people live (Raycast). Headcount has barely moved since 2024, when it was 30; “We’ve stayed flat for a while now,” Mann said in July 2026 (Platformer). Its registered office is 3rd Floor, 1 Ashley Road, Altrincham, WA14 2DT.
What is Raycast’s email format?
Raycast staff use their first name at raycast.com: {first}@raycast.com, such as maya@raycast.com for a fictional Maya Chen. People who go by a short name use that, so a Daniel may be dan@.
Need | Official address |
|---|---|
Support and bugs | support@raycast.com |
Billing | billing@raycast.com |
Sales, Teams and Enterprise | enterprise@raycast.com |
Press | press@raycast.com |
Security | security@raycast.com |
Privacy | privacy@raycast.com |
All patterns, domains and official inboxes: Raycast email format.
Key events
Date | Event |
|---|---|
Oct 27, 2026 | UK accounts for the year to January 2026 filed |
Sep 10, 2026 | Raycast AI moves to credits; $50 Max plan |
Aug 25, 2026 | Raycast 2.0 out of beta on Mac and Windows |
Jul 1, 2026 | Glaze opens to everyone |
Mar 4, 2026 | Glaze private beta |
Nov 20, 2025 | Windows public beta |
Apr 30, 2025 | iPhone app |
Sep 25, 2024 | $30M Series B led by Atomico |
May 10, 2023 | Raycast Pro, the first paid plan |
Jul 20, 2022 | Raycast for Teams |
Nov 30, 2021 | $15M Series A led by Accel and Coatue; Extensions Store opens |
Oct 29, 2020 | Public beta and $2.7M seed led by Accel |
Jan 9, 2020 | Raycast Technologies Ltd. incorporated; Y Combinator, Winter 2020 |
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