Oslo-based startup Tana, an all-in-one workspace that integrates AI into on a regular basis work, introduced a €13.6 million Sequence A spherical to additional develop their AI brokers and voice-powered workflow.
The funding spherical was led by Tola Capital, with participation from Lightspeed Enterprise Companions, Northzone, Alliance VC, and firstminute capital, which brings the corporate’s whole funding to €24.3 million.
“The pc was alleged to be the bicycle for the thoughts. As an alternative, we obtained a hamster wheel leading to a great deal of work about work,” stated Co-founder Tarjei Vassbotn. “With AI we will resolve this, however provided that we method information work in a basically completely different approach. Plugging AI into our present fragmented ecosystem of instruments will create an excellent greater mess.”
Tana was based in 2021 by Tarjei Vassbotn, Olav Kriken, and Grim Iversen. Vassbotn is an ex-Googler with product and AI expertise, and Kriken is a number one progress determine. Iversen has technical experience relating to info modeling and has labored on productiveness programs for the previous 25 years, together with a central function in growing Google Wave.
Tana is an AI-native workspace that mixes a information graph, object-based note-taking, and customisable AI brokers to scale back the steps between considering and doing—taking the consumer from thought to structured, ready-to-use output in seconds. It streamlines capturing, organising, and making use of info.
Throughout its stealth section, Tana constructed a waitlist of greater than 160,000 customers—together with illustration from over 80% of Fortune 500 corporations. Over 30,000 individuals have examined the platform, and greater than 24,000 “Tanarians” contribute to their lively Slack neighborhood.
“This crew’s obsession with reworking productiveness for our AI-native world units them aside. They deeply perceive that the way forward for work can be dynamic and customized, and their voice-first product represents a daring imaginative and prescient for reshaping how groups collaborate globally,” stated Sheila Gulati, founder and managing director of Tola Capital.
Tana is a information graph with connections that mimic the human mind to successfully distribute and scale information. It has a mess of feeds and mechanisms that resurface, course of, and join info.
Tana outlines Supertax, as their most liked function. Constructing on ideas from Object-oriented programming, it transforms unstructured to structured info in seconds. Which means customers can whip up AI workflows, streamline directions for the AI brokers, and immediately rework uncooked notes and voice recordings into ready-to-use output.
Lars Rasmussen (Founding father of Google Maps and the Google Wave CEO) was one in every of their first backers. Different notable angels are Arash Ferdowsi (Dropbox co-founder), Siqi Chen (Runway founder), Olivier Pomel (Datadog founder), and Holly Branson (Virgin).
“I’ve liked being an early adopter of Tana and I’m a believer within the crew’s unbelievable imaginative and prescient to revolutionize information work for high-speed organizations. They’ve constructed some of the spectacular AI brokers I’ve ever seen and infused it into each a part of the product,” stated Nnamdi Iregbulem, Companion at Lightspeed Enterprise Companions.
“Tana is like having a superpower at work. The best info on the proper time. Additionally it is the most effective instrument we at present have to arrange our group for the inevitable: The growing charge of change, the necessity for collaboration, and the data circulate that comes with the arrival of AI,” stated Andre Foeken, CTO Nedap. “The age of private effectiveness is right here, and Tana is entrance and heart.”
