An application that helps people and teams in the Working World simplifies their lists of obligations-by organizing and doing some work for them-one of the unresolved goals in business technology. Leaning in Ai, on top battle scars From once the construction of Google Wave, a startup called She He believes he broke the code about how to come.
Today, Tana comes out of Stealth, announcing $ 25 million funding from an interesting support list to start.
In its most basic, it is a part of the automated builder and notes for notes, the initiator for the application and the organizer of the parts. It can listen to conversations (for example through zoom) or voice memory aimed at the very thin, transcribing them and turning them into action items. Then it begins to work on, depending on what you could integrate with it for this purpose, create lists, budget tables, website updates and more.
It also has a feature called “Supertag”, which he describes as modeled to object -oriented programming that “transforms unstructured in structured information” in a second. “
Tanina’s ambitious idea is that he will improve over time because he takes more information and that his team builds future platforms of platform.
“We are building a knowledge chart,” said Terjei Vasbbotn CEO in an interview. Tana is the main river that quickly breaks down in Norway, and Vesbotn said that the startup was named after him. “Tana is a river of information,” he said.
Directed to individuals, as well as user teams – Beta users included engineering, design, content creation, products for product and management – the idea is that the tana helps to create and then work with data and subsequent action subjects that its users generate in relation to That course of normal day.
“Anything you do, whether you talk to your phone or have a meeting or writing of your own notes, everything is automatically organized and connected so that our AI can work.”
From the gate, there is already a momentum behind the driver. On the back of the popular closed beta and oral words, Tana claims that she has already managed to pick up 160,000 users on the waiting list, with a large concentration of large companies. (That list will start to open today.)
Tana says she had about 30,000 people who used and tested his closed beta version, which she launched about nine months ago; And there were 24,000 users in the Tana Slack community – by chance, another effort to make the work more effective.
The second momentum is behind the scenes. Tana is headquartered in Palo Alta and has an office for development and operations in Norway, with three Norwegian co -founders. Vasbotn and Grim Iversen (CPO) are former Googlers. Significantly, Iversen was one of the elderly people who built Google Wave, another effort to solve problems with obligations and cooperation. They were joined by a third co -founder, Coo Olav Krken, who built a number of digital companies in the country.
The three are well connected and raised $ 25 million in two trances. In the latest series A for $ 14 million, Tola Capital, a VC that focuses on AI software that is running AI, leads the participation of Lightspeed Venture Partners, Northzone, Alliance VC and Capital’s Firstminithe.
The $ 11 million seeds were supported by La Famiglia (now part of General Catalyst), Lars Rasmussen, co-founder of Dropbox Arash Ferdows, founder of the runner Siqi Chen and the founder of Datadoga Olivier Pomel among almost two dozen others.
Angels are significant in their own efforts to build better tools for productivity, some repeatedly.
Rasmussen is a particularly software legend. He founded and launched Google Maps on Google, which gave him the green light to then try out in the productivity of Enterprise, with Ultimately unhappy Google Val.
Rasmussen then moved to Facebook to work on search and Build and launch your own effort of social network to try to solve this problem, others Now the discharged app called a workplace. For the last few years he has been working on startups and angelic investment. In an interview, he said that Iversen was one of the chosen a handful of talented people he had encountered over the years that he would be ready to support, “pretty much no matter what.”
“Grim actually threw some of the [the Tana] Ideas for Google Wave, but we never had time to build them, “Rasmussen said.
The fact is that many talented builders have tried to win the puzzle of efficiency/productivity in business software, but not all of them act as hope. Even Slack’s The so-called email killer hasIn the end, converted packed inbox turned ua swollen burden otherwise, notifications.
Tani founders are part of these complicated history. Now their conviction is that the circle can finally complete the careful application of AI.
It was not a fast process, nor the one they assumed to work in a vacuum without any other competitors. The company first gathered in 2020 and spent time trying to figure out the best approach to create what he predicted.
“We started building our own models for everyone,” Vassbotn said. “But when GPT3 came out, we realized it would be a race among many players.” Many players trying to build productivity, he said, but also those who build large language models.
The company quickly turned, “to make sure that we could basically support any model in space and make all our efforts into it,” Vasbotn continued. “That sounds easy, but it’s quite difficult when you deal with a knowledge chart, where things have to be precise.” Hence the long period of almost four years between the founding and launch of a closed beta version.
Currently, he said, a thin partnership with OPENAI is to power its natural language processing, “but we also use anthrop and gric, and we have some local models on your computer based on an open code model.”
AI is used in tan not only to swallow and process information, but also to understand where to send information, what to do with it.
“I think of a tool catalog,” he said, estimating that it is now integrated with about 50 different tools (like Zuma), and they are all alone Building your own Ai functionality for a little easier to make it easier for users. “If all these tools have their own agent, how will, on Earth, be able to collaborate? So, basically just finish copying and gluing and have different information that is synchronized everywhere. And this is a type of fundamental problem that we try to solve.”
There will inevitably exist a number of companies, including existing leaders at intervals for notes and productivity such as a term, also bulls on AiHe may also consider how to build a helper with AI drive to wrap around everything we do when we are on a keyboard or screen.
And there is a thin way before it is “just doing it”. Kricken, for example, is that today is the “probably the best for technological smart professionals” who are willing to make a little pampering to behave the product as they want. “But in relation to the line, we really believe that this is a change in paradigm in information mode. We imagine that the thin used by all workers with knowledge.”
Investors are convinced that it is worth betting. “I get to know a lot of productivity companies and they were in the space,” Sheila Gulati, founder and executive director Tola Capital said in an interview with Sheila Gulati. “But this is a wonderful experience. I use it to launch our VC company. This is a market that will have the right competition and players who want to win, but this team has a high level of commitment to start experience. This is a long game and their vision of productivity is completely different. ”