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Shortwave
AI-native email app built on Gmail by ex-Firebase engineers, with thread summaries, natural-language mailbox search, and assisted drafting.
Shortwave is a San Francisco company founded in 2020 by Andrew Lee, Jonny Dimond, and Jacob Wenger, a team that previously built Firebase at Google. The product began as a spiritual successor to the discontinued Google Inbox. Shortwave is an email client that layers AI on top of Gmail and Google Workspace. It offers thread summarization, natural-language search across an entire mailbox, AI-assisted drafting that mimics the user's tone, and organizational features like split inbox, bundles, and snooze that echo the old Inbox experience. The company raised roughly $9 million from Lightspeed Venture Partners and Union Square Ventures and has steadily shifted its positioning toward AI-native email and agentic automation for business communication.
- Founded
- 2020
- Headquarters
- San Francisco, United States
- Sector
- applications
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- Shortwave
Shortwave is an AI email client that helps people organize, search, write, schedule, and collaborate around Gmail.