Mintlify
This article has been nominated for deletion. You are welcome to participate in the deletion discussion, which will decide whether to keep it. This discussion may also result in the article being merged, redirected, or draftified. |
| Type | Private |
|---|---|
| Industry | |
| Founded | 2021 |
| Founders |
|
| Headquarters | , United States |
| Key people | |
| Products | Software documentation platform |
| Website | www |
Mintlify is an American software company that develops a platform for creating and maintaining software documentation using artificial intelligence. Founded in 2021 by Han Wang and Hahnbee Lee, the company is based in San Francisco.[1][2]
History
[edit]Wang and Lee met while studying at Cornell University.[3] Mintlify initially focused on generating documentation from source code and participated in Y Combinator's Winter 2022 batch.[1][4]
In May 2022, the company raised $2.8 million in seed funding led by Bain Capital Ventures.[1] In September 2024, it raised $18.5 million in a Series A round led by Andreessen Horowitz.[3]
The same year, Mintlify disclosed a security breach in which GitHub access tokens belonging to 91 customers were compromised.[5]
In March 2026, Mintlify ranked first in the early-stage category of the Enterprise Tech 30 survey, conducted by Wing Venture Capital in partnership with Newcomer.[6] The same month, it acquired Helicone, an open-source platform for large-language-model observability and gateway infrastructure. Helicone entered maintenance mode following the acquisition, and its founders joined Mintlify.[7]
The following month, Mintlify raised $45 million in Series B funding co-led by Andreessen Horowitz and Salesforce Ventures, at a reported valuation of $500 million.[2]
In 2026, Mintlify received a five-star rating in Newsweek's America's Greatest Startup Workplaces ranking.[8]
Platform
[edit]Mintlify provides software for creating and maintaining technical documentation, including API references, guides and knowledge bases. The platform can integrate with software repositories and uses artificial intelligence for generating, searching and updating documentation.[3]
References
[edit]- 1 2 3 Wiggers, Kyle (30 May 2022). "Mintlify taps AI to automatically generate documentation from code". TechCrunch. Retrieved 11 September 2026.
- 1 2 Shrivastava, Rashi (14 April 2026). "Anthropic Uses This Startup's AI To Answer People's Questions About Claude Code". Forbes. Retrieved 11 September 2026.
- 1 2 3 Wiggers, Kyle (5 September 2024). "Mintlify is building a next-gen platform for writing software docs". TechCrunch. Retrieved 11 September 2026.
- ↑ Coldewey, Devin (30 March 2022). "Selected AI startups from YC's Winter '22 batch". TechCrunch. Retrieved 11 September 2026.
- ↑ Whittaker, Zack (18 March 2024). "Mintlify says customer GitHub tokens exposed in data breach". TechCrunch. Retrieved 11 September 2026.
- ↑ Newcomer, Eric. "Mintlify, Serval, ElevenLabs & Anthropic Top Enterprise Tech 30 VC Survey". Newcomer. Retrieved 11 September 2026.
- ↑ "Helicone Alternatives". LatentEval. Retrieved 11 September 2026.
- ↑ "America's Greatest Startup Workplaces 2026". Newsweek. Retrieved 11 September 2026.