Rosebud lands $6M to scale its interactive AI journaling app

Journaling app Rosebud has raised $6 million in seed funding as it seeks to further flesh out its app as an AI mentor for self-reflection and personal growth. Rosebud uses AI to analyze your journal entries, identify patterns over time, and provide insights, questions, and guidance. The company says its goal is to help users better understand themselves, build new habits, and track goals, just like a human mentor would. Since its launch, Rosebud says, users have journaled 500 million words and spent more than 30 million minutes on its platform. Rosebud was founded in 2023 by Chrys Bader, a Y Combinator alum and co-founder of Secret; and Sean Dadashi, a UC Berkeley Cognitive Science graduate. The pair met at a men’s group, and came up with the idea for Rosebud based on their own experiences with therapy and coaching. “Everybody is different, and everyone has different languages, not just spoken languages, but different emotional language, different ways of communication,” Bader said ... Read full article.