Granola, the AI-powered notepad trusted by teams for capturing and transcribing conversations, has officially launched Granola 2.0—a major upgrade that reimagines the platform as a full-fledged intelligent workspace. With millions of meeting minutes transcribed and analyzed daily, Granola is now helping organizations unlock shared knowledge and take collaborative productivity to the next level.
Reinventing Meeting Notes as a Living Knowledge Base
According to Granola Co-Founder Christopher Pedregal, the company’s mission is evolving:
“With Granola 2.0, we’re bringing that ‘second brain’ capability to your entire team. This is about making the most up-to-date, relevant insights across your company immediately actionable.”
The new version of Granola allows organizations to organize, search, and act on their collective conversations, making it far more than a meeting recorder—it’s a live, intelligent operating system for team knowledge.
Features of Granola 2.0:
1. Shared Team Folders
- Create shared spaces for recurring workflows—like Sales Calls, Customer Feedback, Hiring Loops, and Team Syncs.
- Folders can be accessed by teammates, even without a Granola account.
2. Chat with Folders
- Use AI to query across full folders of meeting notes.
- Receive citations linked directly to specific meetings and transcriptions.
3. Enterprise-Wide Collaboration
- Enterprise users can browse public folders within their domain.
- Enables insights into competitive intelligence, onboarding, or customer success strategies.
4. Slack Integration
- Integrates with Slack for instant meeting summaries and context-aware “chat with this meeting” buttons.
- Keeps teams updated without leaving their chat environment.
Granola Co-Founder Sam Stephenson illustrated the product’s power:
“Sales leaders can ask, ‘Why are we losing deals this quarter?’ and get instant answers—backed by transcripts. That’s game-changing.”
Funding and Future Vision
To support its expanded vision, Granola announced a $43M Series B funding round, led by Nat Friedman and Daniel Gross (NFDG). The round includes continued backing from Lightspeed Venture Partners and Spark Capital, along with angel investors like:
- Guillermo Rauch (Vercel)
- Tobi Lütke (Shopify)
- Lenny Rachitsky (Lenny’s Newsletter)
- Des Traynor (Intercom)
- And many more.
Granola plans to use the funding to grow its London-based team and accelerate product innovation, pushing forward its goal to help teams not just work better—but think better.
Granola 2.0 is more than an update—it’s a leap toward intelligent team collaboration. With robust AI features, organizational knowledge management, and seamless integration into daily workflows, Granola is shaping the future of how teams capture and use collective intelligence.
