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Granola

What Granola does

Granola (granola.ai) is a private AI productivity company building a “botless” AI notepad that captures meeting audio/transcribes while users stay in the conversation, then enhances and structures the notes so they can be searched, shared, and pushed into other work tools. Granola positions itself as more than transcription: it combines what a user jots during a meeting with what the system captures from the audio, then produces AI-enhanced notes that include searchable context and action items users can route to tools like Slack, Notion, HubSpot, Linear, Jira, and Asana (native integrations plus workflow routing via Zapier and an MCP connector).

News

Company record

Sep 04, 2026 · Official · GranolaWhat is MCP? A plain-English guide for people who go to meetings

Granola explains MCP in the context of connecting AI tools to Granola notes and characterizes Granola MCP as a way to avoid copy-paste by letting compatible assistants query notes via an AI-to-AI standard.

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2026-09-?? · Official · GranolaDraft a PRD or proposal straight from your discovery calls

Granola describes a workflow for using meeting notes/transcripts as context for drafting PRDs and proposals, emphasizing how rough in-meeting notes become structured outputs after the call.

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2026-09-?? · Official · GranolaIs it safe to connect your meeting notes to AI? What MCP shares and what it doesn't

Granola discusses safety and behavior when connecting meeting notes through MCP, including how compatible AI tools authorize access.

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May 20, 2026 · Official · GranolaNew: Briefs prepare you for your next meeting as you join

Granola introduces meeting “briefs” shown when opening a meeting note—intended to summarize who you’re meeting and what was discussed last time (optionally using connected Gmail).

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Apr 21, 2026 · Official · GranolaGranola Chat just got smarter

Granola releases an “agentic” rebuild of Granola Chat that can answer across meeting notes/transcripts and shared Team Space context with source-linked inline citations and proactive references to the notes it uses.

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Mar 25, 2026 · Official · GranolaGranola raises $125M to put your company's context to work

Announcement of $125M Series C at a $1.5bn valuation led by Index Ventures with participation from Kleiner Perkins, highlighting expansion into enterprise workflow use of meeting “company context.”

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Mar 25, 2026 · Reporting · TechCrunchGranola raises $125M, hits $1.5B valuation as it expands from meeting notetaker to enterprise AI app

TechCrunch reports Granola’s Series C details and frames the shift from prosumer note-taking into enterprise AI app capabilities.

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Feb 04, 2026 · Official · GranolaIntroducing Granola MCP

Granola launches Granola MCP to connect meeting-context notes into Claude, ChatGPT, and other MCP-supporting AI tools, describing it as an MCP server approach to pull from conversation notes.

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Funding

Latest disclosed valuation$1.5B
Tracked capital$196.5M5 sourced rounds

What it builds

Granola AI Notepad

Desktop and mobile “AI notepad” that transcribes meetings in the background (no visible bot in the call), combines the transcript with user jot notes, and produces AI-enhanced notes that can be edited, queried across meetings, and shared as needed.

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Granola Chat

Granola’s AI chat experience designed to answer questions using meeting notes and transcripts across personal notes and shared Team Space context, with source-linked inline citations and proactive references to which notes it used.

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Recipes

A library of saved, shareable prompt workflows (e.g., meeting templates and briefings) that run inside Granola Chat to structure outputs around repeatable meeting and decision-making workflows.

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Granola MCP

A Model Context Protocol (MCP) integration that lets compatible AI apps pull from Granola meeting notes (Granola presents itself as the MCP server and also provides a connector experience for Claude/ChatGPT and MCP clients).

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Milestones & partnerships

Sep 04, 2026
MCP explainer (public educational milestone)

Granola publishes a plain-English guide describing how MCP allows AI tools to query Granola meeting notes on demand.

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May 20, 2026
Briefs for upcoming meetings

Granola introduces meeting briefs as part of the workflow when opening a meeting note.

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Apr 21, 2026
Granola Chat rebuild to “agentic” mode

Granola releases a rebuilt Granola Chat intended to handle quick and deep questions across notes and transcripts with citations and proactive note references.

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Mar 25, 2026
Series C milestone

Granola announces $125M Series C at $1.5bn valuation led by Index Ventures with participation from Kleiner Perkins, positioning the company context workflow as the next phase.

Index Ventures · Kleiner Perkins
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Feb 04, 2026
Granola MCP released

Granola launches Granola MCP to make meeting context available inside compatible AI apps via the MCP standard.

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Oct 23, 2025
Series A scaling milestone

Granola announces its $20M Series A led by Spark Capital and describes early product adoption, weekly user growth, and retention.

Spark Capital
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May 14, 2025
Shared Team Folders / “Granola 2.0” collaboration rollout

Granola describes creating shared team folders and sharing a URL so team members (even without a Granola account) can read and chat with AI using the set’s cited transcript context.

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May 22, 2024
Launch of Granola as an AI-powered notepad for meetings

Granola’s announcement post positions Granola as a meeting notepad approach that shows where notes came from (quotes) and incorporates AI with meeting context.

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