The noteworthy tool for the note of Ai Granola’s note was in the roll. The startup has seen a strong increase in use since it was launched a year ago, especially thanks to the word of mouth between VC and founders, but a large pilot seems to be the fact that people use it to make more than its main tone: automated note for meetings.
The co-founder of Granola, Chris Pedregal, told Techcrunch that the users of the company are increasingly used to take personal notes, which helps them to do all their information, both from work and in another way, available for the IA of the app to analyze and surface. “(People) have granola open all day because they have many meetings, so it’s like (…) where they are starting to live,” he said.
Pedregal said that the organic popularity of Granola between the technological crowd and diversified use cases helped its users’ base to grow by 10% every week since its launch, although it has not specified the number of users currently.
Outside the back of that rapid growth and popularity, GRIOLA Wednesday said he collected $ 43 million in a financing round of the B series led by the adventure company of Nat Friedman and Daniel Gross, NFDG, with an evaluation of $ 250 million.
The round also saw the participation of existing Lightspeed and Spark existing investors, as well as Angel Investors including Guillermo Rauch by Vercel, Amjad Masad of Replit, Tobias Lütke of Shopify and Karri Saarinen of Linear. The round brings the total funding of the company increased to $ 67 million.
In addition to this funding, Granola is also extending his mandate beyond his current User Focus to make himself more useful for companies: it is the launch of a new collaboration feature that allows users to share transcriptions and notes with teammates and allow the IS of the app for the benefit of a wider pool of notes and details on the Hindus of surface.
Users of an organization can create personalized folders for various collaborative use cases such as sales calls, customer feedback and hiring. The app will also allow users to share the meeting notes with people who do not use granola to make them chat with his Ai and ask him questions.
Other transcription apps and noteworthy notes in the meeting, such as Read Ai, Fireflies and Otter, already offer similar shared space features. Pedregal, however, says that granola is more than the note. “I think GRANOLA differs from the other Remarkations whether it is very personal and you always have control. You can change the notes at any time. It is not just about capturing a meeting, but it is a space in which you can work, even post -post meetings,” he said.
At the beginning of this month, Granola updated her app to allow users to ask questions to the AI Bot on all the meetings she had recorded. Based on this, the company will now allow users to ask questions even on specific folders.
The new collaborative objective of Granola is part of a wider trend: many transcription tools and known for the noting fueled by artificial intelligence are expanding their attention and building additions with other tools while trying to become a hub that memorizes and users seek knowledge of various sources.
In the meantime, the productivity suite are introducing transcription tools to prevent customers from having to use other apps for this purpose. For example, yesterday’s idea launched a noteworthy tool for artificial intelligence meetings.
Mike Mignano of Lightspeed believes that Granola has an advantage in this space due to his interface and the user experience.
“From the beginning, the company has had the right mix of transcription of artificial intelligence and human control of taking notes. Now that they are building context through the meetings and making the notes shared, the product has become stronger. With these characteristics, the granola will have a long -term context for users and teams, starting the effects of the network for the start,” he said.
