Physical Address
304 North Cardinal St.
Dorchester Center, MA 02124
An application that helps people and teams in the working world simplifies lists to to-do-ideally, one of the goals solved in business technology by organizing and performing some of the work. Relying on AI, from Google Wave’s once structure on top of the battlefields, a starting venture HE He believes he broke the code on how to achieve.
Today, her Tana leaves the stealth and announced a $ 25 million funding from an interesting list of departure.
The most basic is the Tana partly automated listing and note-receiving, component application-licensing and component organizer. You can listen to the conversations (for example, above the zoom) or the loud memories that are directed toward the doctrine themselves, rewriting them, and transforms them into action items. He then starts working on this, depending on what the user could integrate for this purpose to create lists, tables, website updates and much more.
It has a function called “SuperTag”, which it calls object -oriented programming modeling that “transforms structured information in seconds in seconds”.
Tana’s ambitious idea is that she improves over time as she recruits more data and as her team builds the future iterations of the platform.
“We make a knowledge diagram,” said CEO Vassbotn in an interview. Tana is a large, fast running river in Norway, and Vassbotn said that the starting venture had called him himself. “The doctrine is the river of information,” he said.
For both persons, both user teams – beta users, the creation of engineering, planning, content, product and management groups – for beta users – the idea that Tana helps to create, then cooperate with the data and it Following action items generated by users by users. the course of a normal day.
“Everything you do, whether you talk to your phone or meet or write your own notes, everything automatically organizes and connects so that AI can work.”
There is already some momentum behind the gates. The popular closed beta and the mouth -to -mouth back of Tana claim that 160,000 users have already been recorded on a waiting list, with high concentrations from large companies. (This list begins today.)
Tana says that about 30,000 people use and tested the closed beta, which she started about nine months ago; And collected 24,000 users into a Tana Slack community – randomly loose, another effort to make efficiency more efficient.
The other momentum is behind the scenes. The Tana is located in Palo Altó and has three Norwegian co -founders in Norway. Vassbotn and Grim Iversen (CPO) ex-googlers. It is noteworthy that Iversen was one of the older people who built Google Wave, one of the efforts to solve something and the effort to solve the problem. They join a third co -founder, Coo Olav Krkenn, who has built a number of digital companies in the country.
The three were well connected and raised $ 25 million in two installments. The latest in the series, for $ 14 million, is involved in the risk assumption of Tolla Capital, AI-powered Enterprise software, LightSpeed Venture Partners, Northzone, Alliance VC and Firstinute Capital.
The $ 11 million seed round was supported by La Famiglia (currently part of General Catalyst), Lars Rasmussen, Dropbox Arash Ferdows, Siqi Chen runway and Datadog founder Olivier Pomel.
Angels are all noteworthy because of their efforts to build better productivity tools.
Especially Rasmussen is a software legend. He founded and running Google Maps at Google, which gave him a green light to try his hands on corporate productivity, ultimately malicious Google Wave.
Rasmussen then moved to Facebook to work on the search and build and start the community network’s own efforts to try to solve this problem, another application called Workplace. Over the past few years, he has been working on start -up businesses and an angel investment. In an interview, Iversen is a handful of talented people he has met over the years and will be willing to restore: “About anything.”
“Grim actually formulated some (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 conquer the conundrum of efficiency/productivity in business software, but not all worked in the hope. Even Slack’s so-called e-mail killer eventually turned into an overloaded incoming letter folder bloated burdens Other notifications.
The founders of the Tana are part of complex history. Now it was believed that the circle could finally finish with the careful application of AI.
This was not a quick process, nor one where it was supposed to work in vacuum with other competitors. The company first came together in 2020 and spent time trying to figure out the best approach to create what it imagined.
“We started building our own models for everything,” Vassbotn said. “But when GPT3 was released, we realized that this would be a race among many players.” Many players who try to increase productivity, he said, but also builds large language models.
The company turned quickly: “To ensure fundamentally supporting any model of the universe and putting every effort to do so,” Vassbotn continued. “It sounds easy, but it is very difficult to deal with a knowledge diagram where things have to be accurate.” Therefore, the long period of nearly four years between the establishment and launch of a closed beta.
Currently, Tana is primarily working with Openai to nourish natural language processing, “De anthropic and grok is used, and there are some local models that run on the computer from open source models.”
It is used at AI -TA tana, not only to swallow and process information, but to understand where to send information and what to do.
“I am thinking of Tana as a tool catalog,” he said, estimating that this is now integrated into about 50 different devices (such as Zoom), all of which build their own AI functions to make us a little easier for users. “If these tools have their own AI agent, how will they cooperate? So it basically only carries out copying and insertion and has different information that is synchronous everywhere. And this is a kind of basic problem we try to solve. ”
There will be inevitably many companies, including existing executives in note-recording and productivity spaces such as notion Bullish on AI -nYou may also consider how to build an AI-based assistant to do everything we do when we are on a keyboard or screen.
And Tana has a way to go before the “only working” stage. For example, Kriken is that nowadays the doctrine is “probably the best for tech competent professionals” who are willing to try a little to behave as they want. “But on the line, we really think this is a paradigm shift on how we work with information. We imagine the doctrine used by all knowledge workers. ”
Investors are convinced that it is worth receiving. “I meet a lot of productivity companies and I was in space,” said Sheila Gulati, founder and managing director of Tolla Capital in an interview. “But this is a wonderful experience. I use it to run a venture capital company. This is a market where there will be real competition and the players who want to win, but this team has a high level of commitment to increase experience. It’s a long game and the idea of productivity is completely different. ”
