Granola

Granola is the AI notepad for people who live in back-to-back meetings. It takes your raw meeting notes—the scattered bullet points, half-finished thoughts, and frantic scribbles—and transforms them into intelligent, context-aware summaries that actually make sense. Think of it as having a mind reader in every meeting, someone who knows what you were working on before you walked in and connects the dots while you're talking. They just raised $125 million to put your company's context to work, because here's the thing: everyone's been trying to solve the meeting overload problem and failing. Granola gets it right by understanding not just WHAT you wrote, but WHAT IT MEANS in the context of your project, your team, your goals.

They're targeting product teams specifically—the ones drowning in calls, demos, and syncs—who need to remember what happened in a meeting they had four hours ago while they're already in the next one. Their iPhone app "Briefs" means you can take meeting notes on the go and for your phone calls. They've got 100 employees and they're adding 20 more next quarter, with offices in San Francisco and Austin. That's real growth, not headcount theater.

Everyone's building AI assistants. Granola built one that actually remembers what you were doing before you started talking, and that's the difference between a toy and a tool. They're hiring.