Granola for taking notes with it has been on a scroll. The beginning has seen a steep rise in use since it started a year ago, mostly thanks to the word of the mouth between the QV and the founders, but a big driver seems to be the fact that people are using it to do more than its essential pitch-automated appointments for meetings.
Granola co -founder Chris Pedragel told Techcrunch that company users are increasingly using more granolas to get personal notes, which helps them make all their information, both from work and in contrast, available to the app to analyze and the surface of the mirrors. “(People) have open granolas all day because they have a lot of meetings, so it’s like (…) where they have begun to live,” he said.
Pedragel said the organic popularity of granola among the technology crowd and the diversification of use cases has helped the user base growing 10% every week since its inception, although it did not specify how many users it has.
In the back of that rapid growth and popularity, Granola on Wednesday said he had raised $ 43 million in a round of Serie B funding by Nat Friedman and Daniel Goss, NFDG, with a $ 250 million rating.
Also non -participation by existing Lightspeed and Spark investors, as well as angel investors including Guillermo Rauch of Vercel, Amjad Masad of Replit, Tobi Lutke of Shopify and Carry Saarin. The round brings the company’s total funds raised to $ 67 million.
Alongside this funding, Granola is also lasting beyond its current single concentration with a user to make itself more useful for businesses: it is starting a new collaboration feature that allows users to share transcripts and notes with teammates, and enable the app to benefit from a wider group of notes for mirrors.
Users in an organization can create custom folders for various cases of cooperative use such as sales calls, customer feedback and employment. The app will also allow users to share meetings with people who do not use granolas to let them talk to her and ask her questions.
The other transcription of meetings and notes -taking applications, such as read, Fireflies and Otter, already offer similar features of the common space. Pedregal, however, says granola is for more than noting notes. “I think how Granola differs from other nottakers is that it is very personal and you are in control all the time. You can edit notes at any point. It’s not just about catching a meeting, but it’s a space you can work, even meetings after,” he said.
Earlier this month, Granola updated its application to enable users to ask the world’s questions for all the meetings it had recorded. Based on this, the company will now allow users to ask questions about specific folders as well.
The new collaborative focus of Granola is part of a wider tendency-many tools to transcribe meetings with him and take notes are expanding their focus and building integration by other means as they try to become a center that preserves and allows users to seek knowledge from various sources.
Meanwhile, productivity suits are presenting transcription tools to keep customers not to use other applications for that purpose. For example, the notion only started yesterday a tool for taking it.
Lightpeed’s Mike Mike believes that Granola has an advantage in this space due to its user interface and experience.
“From the beginning, the company has had the right mix of the transcript of it and human control to get notes. Now that they are building contexts on meetings and making the notes separate, the product has become stronger. With these features, the granola will have a long -term context for users and teams, starting the network effects,” he said.
