Granola

Granola is an innovative AI-powered notepad designed to streamline the meeting experience for professionals. The platform captures meeting audio directly from the user's device, transcribing conversations in real-time without the need for a bot to join the call, ensuring a seamless and unobtrusive experience. Granola then enhances the user's raw notes with context from the transcript, providing structured summaries, action items, and key insights.

The company's core offering revolves around augmenting human note-taking with advanced AI capabilities. Users can jot down their own notes during a meeting, and Granola intelligently integrates these with the full transcript to create comprehensive and organized summaries. This hybrid approach allows users to remain fully present in their discussions while ensuring that no critical details are missed. The platform also features an AI chat function, enabling users to query their past meetings for specific information, generate follow-up emails, and extract insights across their entire meeting history.

Founded in early 2023 by Chris and Sam, Granola is a London-based startup that has quickly gained traction in the AI productivity space. The company has successfully raised significant venture capital, including a $20 million Series A round and a $125 million Series C round, demonstrating strong investor confidence in its vision to transform knowledge work. Granola aims to evolve beyond simple note-taking to become an enterprise context layer, integrating meeting intelligence into broader AI workflows and helping teams focus more on their discussions.