About Aria
We believe AI should amplify humans, not replace them
Aria was founded on a simple idea: the best writing assistant doesn't write for you — it thinks with you. We're building AI that makes every team's content better, faster, and more authentic.
Our mission
Make publish-ready content accessible to every team
Content is the engine of modern business — yet most teams spend 80% of their time on first drafts and revisions. We built Aria to collapse that cycle from days to minutes.
Our AI doesn't just generate text. It learns your brand voice, understands your audience, and produces content that sounds like your best writer on their best day.
AI requests processed daily
Our values
What we stand for
Speed without sacrifice
We obsess over latency. Every AI response ships in under 2 seconds because great tools should never make you wait.
Privacy by design
Your data never trains our models. SOC 2 Type II certified, end-to-end encryption, and zero data retention.
Craft over features
We ship fewer things, better. Every feature is polished, tested, and loved before it reaches your workspace.
Built for everyone
48 languages, WCAG AA accessible, designed for teams from 1 to 10,000 across every timezone.
AI you can trust
Transparent model sourcing, clear confidence scores, and human-in-the-loop by default. No hallucination black boxes.
Outcome-oriented
We don't measure tokens generated — we measure content that converts, ships, and drives real business results.
The team
Built by people who care
Former engineers and designers from Stripe, Google, Notion, Figma, Linear, and OpenAI.
Sarah Chen
CEO & Co-founder
Former ML lead at Stripe. Stanford CS PhD. Obsessed with making AI tools that don't suck.
Marcus Johnson
CTO & Co-founder
Ex-Google Brain researcher. Built large language model infrastructure serving 100M+ requests/day.
Priya Patel
VP of Product
Previously led product at Notion. Believes the best AI is invisible — it just makes your work better.
Alex Rivera
Head of Engineering
Built real-time collaboration at Figma. Loves distributed systems and developer experience.
Emma Larsson
Head of Design
Design lead at Linear. Believes every pixel should earn its place. Minimalist to the core.
David Kim
Head of AI Research
Published 30+ NLP papers. Formerly at OpenAI. Focused on making language models reliable and safe.
Our story
From garage to 12,000+ teams
2022
The spark
Sarah and Marcus meet at a Stanford AI conference. Both frustrated with existing writing tools that feel like talking to a chatbot.
2023
First prototype
Built in a garage in San Francisco. The first version of Aria could adapt to a brand voice in under 5 minutes.
2023
Seed round
$4.2M from Sequoia and Craft Ventures. Hired the founding team of 8 engineers and designers.
2024
Public beta
Launched to 2,000 beta users. 94% retention rate in the first month. Teams were replacing 3-4 tools with Aria.
2024
Series A
$18M led by a16z. Expanded to 48 languages and launched the API platform.
2025
12,000+ teams
From solo creators to Fortune 500 content teams. Processing 2M+ AI requests daily.
Our AI Ethics Commitment
We believe AI companies have a responsibility to build technology that's safe, transparent, and beneficial. Here's how we approach it:
- No surprise training: Your content is never used to train our base models without explicit opt-in consent.
- Transparent sourcing: Every AI output includes model confidence scores and source attribution when available.
- Human-in-the-loop: Aria assists human writers — it never publishes autonomously. Every output requires human review.
- Bias monitoring: We continuously audit our models for demographic, cultural, and linguistic biases.
- Open research: We publish our safety research and contribute to industry-wide AI safety standards.