The AI Notebook software Granola announced $43 million in round B financing, valued at $250 million, and released its Granola version 2.0.
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** Finance **: $43 million has been completed B Rounded Finance, led by Nat Friedman & Daniel Gross, Lightspeed and Spark
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Investor background: covers the core of First Line Technology Products Vercel, Replit, Shopify, Ramp, Intercom, etc.
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Strategic vision: Create Granola as an “intelligent collaborative platform based on a real-time business context” that not only supports work, but also supports thinking
Granola 2.0 is not a mere meeting recording tool, but** integrates the meeting transcription, AI analysis and team knowledge management** and builds a ** “interactive conference knowledge system”.
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Auto-record the content of the meeting
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Extract points and action items
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Intelligent analysis across multiple meetings
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Provide reference sources, context jumps
#Granola 2.0 Key Functions Detailed
#1 Sharing team folders: structured portals to conference knowledge
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Teams can create shared folders based on themes (e.g., “sale calls” “client feedback” “technical meetings” etc.)
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The contents in the folder support full-text search dialogue with AI and access and query without the member having an account number
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Retain references to all information and enhance transparency of information and the credibility of decision-making
Examples of scenarios: product managers can ask directly “What is the most recent user complaints function?” and the system automatically summarizes and identifies relevant session segments.
##2 Project collaboration folder: Agile response to important scenes
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Users can drag related meetings into a new folder and quickly generate a “collaborative space”
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Key business nodes applicable to financing preparation, release planning, customer follow-up, etc.
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Full consistency of content seen by everyone, saving time for redundant communication and replication of paste
#3 “Dialogue-type” knowledge analysis: an intelligent cross-chamber question-and-answer session
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Users can not only search keywords, but can also ask the entire folder in natural language**, like, “Ask a team assistant with a clear memory.”
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The answer is linked to the context and can be transferred directly to the original dialogue position of the meeting
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Roles (e.g. products, sales, recruitment, etc.) that need to identify trends, summarize patterns from multiple meetings
##4 Multi-model support: reasoning is of higher quality and can switch autonomously
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Support for mainstream models (e.g. OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, etc.)
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Users can select models depending on the nature of the task, or they can authorize Granola to choose the best automatically
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Increased capacity for integration and reasoning of ** multi-session content** and improved accuracy of analysis of complex issues
##5 Enterprise-level directory browsing: Increased teamwork across teams
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Business users have access to all “public folders” in the company, such as sales databases, customer support questions databases, training records, etc.
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Helping to increase transparency of information and the efficiency of cross-sectoral collaboration
##6 Smart collation proposal: reduce the cost of manual cataloguing (coming online)
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The most appropriate folder for the system based on meeting titles, participants, historical behavior predictions
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User only needs one key confirmation to avoid missing “unarched” meetings
#7Slack Auto-promotion integration: seamless entry into workflow
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After each meeting, Granola will automatically post on the designated Slack channel: Brief summary
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To-dos
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“Linkable dialogue session”
Even if members do not use Granola, they can keep abreast of the outcome of the meeting and engage in further collaboration
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Provide predefined templates such as “user interview” “sale cycle” “interview process”
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Includes structure, permission configuration and AI dialogue tips, which can be used efficiently by the team on the first day
Website: https://www.granola.ai/