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Discover QuillBot, an AI-powered writing platform. Learn about our leaders and our mission to enable written communication in any language to be significantly better and more efficient.

About QuillBot

In 2017, our founders wanted to find a way to help students still learning English improve their writing.

Today, our brands—QuillBot, Scribbr, and LanguageTool—are on a mission to make written communication better and more efficient. Our personalized AI tools empower 56 million people around the world to learn and improve their writing, enabling better communication across languages and cultures.

Our story

How does a student’s idea grow into an AI platform that helps improve billions of writing projects each year? With a team of 190 employees from around the world who are dedicated, innovative, and collaborative. Here’s everything we’ve accomplished so far.

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2017
Born in a college dorm

Anil Jason wanted to create a tool that could help ELL students with writing. After enlisting his friends—Rohan Gupta and David Silin—they created QuillBot’s Paraphraser.

2018
Sparks start to fly

QuillBot almost immediately went viral on Reddit. Soon after, the trio entered into UIUC’s iVenture Accelerator and won initial funding.

2019
Boots on the ground

Based out of a small office in Chicago and running on donuts, the founders worked tirelessly to get QuillBot to its first major milestone: one million users.

April 2020
Raising—and reaching—millions

As the number of active writers climbed to two million, QuillBot secured $4.25 million in funding.

May 2020
Broadening horizons

As QuillBot’s base grew, so did our aspirations. We wanted to be more than just a Paraphraser. So, we launched our second major tool—Summarizer—and started planning for more.

February 2021
More tools, more users

In 2021, QuillBot rolled out Grammar Checker. This smashing success—plus new languages, fresh modes, and more—brought us to a whopping six million users.

August 2021
Joining forces

Wanting more room to grow, QuillBot became a part of Learneo (previously Course Hero), a platform of like-minded businesses designed to supercharge productivity and learning.

March 2022
Scribbr teams up

Learneo acquired fast-growing start-up Scribbr out of the Netherlands to expand international reach and accelerate their mission of helping learners of all backgrounds succeed in the classroom.

April 2023
Willkommen LanguageTool

German start-up LanguageTool joined the Learneo family, bringing unique language and AI expertise to a growing writing vertical which has reached 56.9 million monthly active users across QuillBot, Scribbr, and now LanguageTool.

July 2024
QuillBot sets a new standard in AI detection

QuillBot launched an AI detector that clearly distinguishes between AI-generated text and text refined with AI tools, paving the way for the future of AI in the classroom.

Slide 1 of 10
2017
Born in a college dorm

Anil Jason wanted to create a tool that could help ELL students with writing. After enlisting his friends—Rohan Gupta and David Silin—they created QuillBot’s Paraphraser.

2018
Sparks start to fly

QuillBot almost immediately went viral on Reddit. Soon after, the trio entered into UIUC’s iVenture Accelerator and won initial funding.

2019
Boots on the ground

Based out of a small office in Chicago and running on donuts, a team of just X worked tirelessly to get QuillBot to its first major milestone: one million users.

April 2020
Making—and reaching—millions

As the number of active writers climbed to two million, QuillBot secured $4.25 million in funds.

May 2020
Broadening horizons

As QuillBot’s base grew, so did our aspirations. We wanted to be more than just Paraphraser. So, we launched our second major tool—Summarizer—and started planning for more.

February 2021
More tools, more users

In 2021, QuillBot rolled out Grammar Checker. This smashing success—plus new languages, fresh modes, andmore—brought us to a whopping six million users.

August 2021
Joining forces

Wanting more room to grow, QuillBot became a part of Learneo (previously Course Hero), a platform of like-minded businesses designed to supercharge productivity and learning.

March 2022
Scribbr teams up

Learneo acquired fast-growing start-up Scribbr out of the Netherlands to expand international reach and accelerate their mission of helping learners of all backgrounds succeed in the classroom.

April 2023
Willkommen LanguageTool

German start-up LanguageTool joined the Learneo family, bringing unique language and AI expertise to a growing writing vertical which has reached 56.9 million monthly active users across QuillBot, Scribbr, and now LanguageTool.

July 2024
QuillBot sets a new standard in AI detection

QuillBot launched a detector that clearly distinguishes between AI-generated text and text refined with AI tools, paving the way for the future of AI in the classroom.

Slide 1 of 10
2017
Born in a college dorm

Anil Jason wanted to create a tool that could help ELL students with writing. After enlisting his friends—Rohan Gupta and David Silin—they created QuillBot’s Paraphraser.

2018
Sparks start to fly

QuillBot almost immediately went viral on Reddit. Soon after, the trio entered into UIUC’s iVenture Accelerator and won initial funding.

2019
Boots on the ground

Based out of a small office in Chicago and running on donuts, a team of just X worked tirelessly to get QuillBot to its first major milestone: one million users.

April 2020
Making—and reaching—millions

As the number of active writers climbed to two million, QuillBot secured $4.25 million in funds.

May 2020
Broadening horizons

As QuillBot’s base grew, so did our aspirations. We wanted to be more than just Paraphraser. So, we launched our second major tool—Summarizer—and started planning for more.

February 2021
More tools, more users

In 2021, QuillBot rolled out Grammar Checker. This smashing success—plus new languages, fresh modes, andmore—brought us to a whopping six million users.

August 2021
Joining forces

Wanting more room to grow, QuillBot became a part of Learneo (previously Course Hero), a platform of like-minded businesses designed to supercharge productivity and learning.

March 2022
Scribbr teams up

Learneo acquired fast-growing start-up Scribbr out of the Netherlands to expand international reach and accelerate their mission of helping learners of all backgrounds succeed in the classroom.

April 2023
Willkommen LanguageTool

German start-up LanguageTool joined the Learneo family, bringing unique language and AI expertise to a growing writing vertical which has reached 56.9 million monthly active users across QuillBot, Scribbr, and now LanguageTool.

July 2024
QuillBot sets a new standard in AI detection

QuillBot launched a detector that clearly distinguishes between AI-generated text and text refined with AI tools, paving the way for the future of AI in the classroom.

We’ve grown to
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5.3 billion

Annual Paraphraser inputs

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56 million

Monthly active writers

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243

Employees

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150

University partners

Careers

At QuillBot, we’re passionate about building platforms and products that help millions of people around the world write with clarity and confidence. If you’re driven and resourceful and believe in our mission, join us!

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Our leaders
Andrew Grauer

CEO and Cofounder at Learneo

Rohan
Rohan Gupta

Chief Strategist

Co-Founder of QuillBot

Monique
Monique Ho

General Counsel of Learneo

Stephen
Stephen Van Horne

COO & CFO of Learneo

Rodrigo Fontes
Rodrigo Fontes

VP of Marketing

Christopher Blum
Christopher Blum

VP of Apps & Extensions

Co-Founder of LanguageTool

Jeremy Pippin
Jeremy Pippin

VP of Product

Saurabh Goel
Saurabh Goel

VP of Engineering

Kelly Varma
Kelly Varma

VP, Strategy & Revenue Operations

Dr. Kevin Gimpel

VP of Research