Granola Raises $43M Series B to Scale AI-Powered Collaborative Notepad
Granola is reshaping how teams capture and share knowledge.

Company Name: Granola
Location: London, UK
Industry: Productivity
Funding Details:
- Amount: $43M
- Round: Series B
- Investors:
- Lead: Nat Friedman & Daniel Gross (NFDG)
- Participants: Mike Mignano (Lightspeed), Nabeel Hyatt (Spark Capital), Guillermo Rauch (Vercel), Amjad Masad (Replit), Tobi Lutke (Shopify), Karri Saarinen (Linear), Lenny Rachitsky, Des Traynor (Intercom), Karim Atiyeh (Ramp), Zach Lloyd (Warp), Charlie Songhurst, Noah Weiss, Romain Huet, Nilan Peiris, Laura Modiano
Previous Rounds:
- $4.25M Seed (May 2023 – Lightspeed, betaworks, FirstMinute)
- $20M Series A (Oct 2024 – Spark Capital, AI Grant, Lightspeed, betaworks, Firstminute Capital)
Purpose of Investment:
To grow the London-based team and accelerate product development of its AI-powered notetaking and collaboration platform.
Leadership:
- Co-Founders: Chris Pedregal and Sam Stephenson
Product:
Granola is an AI-powered notepad designed for teams. It transcribes conversations, analyzes them, and turns meeting content into actionable, shareable insights. The platform now includes:
- Granola 2.0 with:
- Shared Team Folders
- "Chat with Folders" to interact with stored knowledge
- Enterprise-grade collaboration features
- Native Slack integration
About Company:
Founded in March 2023, Granola is reshaping how teams capture and share knowledge. By blending transcription, AI summarization, and collaborative tools into a single workspace, it enables teams to retain context, act faster, and reduce knowledge loss. With growing enterprise interest, Granola is positioning itself as the go-to platform for meeting intelligence and team alignment.