Granola hits unicorn status
Granola raised $125M in a Series C and now values its AI note‑taking app at $1.5B as it pivots from meeting transcription to an enterprise AI platform with agents that automate tasks from notes. The round was announced March 25 and signals investor appetite for ‘second brain’ tools that do follow‑ups and workflow automation for teams. (techcrunch.com) (siliconangle.com)
Index Ventures’ Danny Rimer led the latest round and Kleiner Perkins’ Mamoon Hamid participated, with existing backers Lightspeed, Spark and NFDG also taking part. (techcrunch.com) The company has now raised $192 million in total capital, following a roughly $43 million round completed less than a year earlier. (techcrunch.com) Product additions unveiled alongside the deal include Spaces and nested Folders for team workspaces, a Granola Chat feature built on Claude, GPT and Gemini, plus a personal API and an enterprise API for bulk access. (granola.ai) The startup changed how it stored local data earlier this year, a move that broke some on‑device AI agent workflows and drew complaints from users — the company says it will support agent use via new APIs and an updated MCP. (techcrunch.com) Management told reporters its revenue had grown about 2.5× since the start of the year as of mid‑March, the firm now employs roughly 55 people, and founder‑CEO Chris Pedregal previously sold an AI startup to Google; Index’s Danny Rimer will join as a board observer. (economictimes.indiatimes.com) Granola listed enterprise customers such as Vanta, Gusto, Thumbtack, Asana and Cursor, and said it already connects into tools including Claude, ChatGPT, Lovable, Figma Make, Replit, Manus and Dreamer. (granola.ai)
