Granola Launches AI Workspace for Teams and Raises $43M Series B
Granola, a startup that uses artificial intelligence to automatically document and summarize team meetings, has raised $43 million in Series B funding, positioning itself as a potential rival to Notion and Microsoft in the cutthroat market for workplace productivity software. The funding round, which values the company at a significantly higher valuation than its previous raise, underscores investor appetite for AI tools that promise to free workers from tedious administrative tasks — even as questions linger about whether such software actually reduces meeting bloat or simply encourages more of them. With the capital, Granola is now building out a full workspace platform, suggesting the company believes its meeting intelligence engine is just the foundation for a much broader assault on how teams collaborate