Granola, a London, UK-based company providing an AI-powered notepad that combines typed notes with AI transcriptions, raised $43M in Series B funding.
The round was led by Nat Friedman and Daniel Gross from NFDG, with participation from existing investors Mike Mignano from Lightspeed Venture Partners and Nabeel Hyatt from Spark Capital. Other investors included Guillermo Rauch (Vercel), Amjad Masad (Replit), Tobi Lutke (Shopify), Karri Saarinen (Linear), Lenny Rachitsky (Lenny’s Newsletter), Des Traynor (Intercom), Karim Atiyeh (Ramp), Zach Lloyd (Warp), Charlie Songhurst, Noah Weiss, Romain Huet, Nilan Peiris and Laura Modiano.
The company intends to use the funds to expand its team in London to accelerate product development.
Founded in March 2023 by Chris Pedregal and Sam Stephenson, Granola provides an AI-powered notepad that transcribes and analyzes conversations. With the launch of the 2.0 release, the company now provides a collaborative workspace that allows teams to capture, share, and leverage collective knowledge:
- Shared Team Folders.
- Chat with Folders.
- Enterprise Collaboration.
- Slack Integration.
In May 2023 they raised a $4.25M Seed round from Lightspeed Venture Partners, betaworks and FirstMinute, and raised a further $20M Series A in October 2024, led by Spark Capital, with participation from investors AI Grant, Lightspeed, Betaworks, Firstminute Capital, and others.
FinSMEs
15/05/2025