AI note-taking app Granola raises $43M at $250M valuation, launches collaborative features

AI-powered note-taking tool Granola has been on a roll. The startup’s seen a steep uptick in usage since it launched a year ago, mostly thanks to word of mouth among VCs and founders, but a big driver seems to be the fact that people are using it for doing more than its core pitch — automated note-taking for meetings. Granola’s co-founder, Chris Pedragel, told TechCrunch that the company’s users are increasingly using Granola for taking personal notes, which helps them make all their information, both from work and otherwise, available to the app’s AI to parse and surface insights from. “[People] have Granola open all day because they have a lot of meetings, so it’s like […] where they’re starting to live,” he said. Pedragel said Granola’s organic popularity among the tech crowd and diversifying use-cases has helped its user base grow 10% every week since its launch, though he didn’t specify how many users it currently has. Off the back of that rapid growth and popularity, Granola o ... Read full article.