Granola is an AI notepad for back-to-back meetings.
12 dated product events are on the public record.
Sample report · Researched on 2026-09-12.
Before you join
Granola.
Granola is an AI notepad for back-to-back meetings.
- Founded
- 2023
- Headquarters
- London, United Kingdom
- Reported team size
- 143
- Funding stage
- Series C
Company details
- Founded
- 2023
- Headquarters
- London, United Kingdom
- Financing
- Latest round $125M Series C, 25 March 2026Source ↗
- Headcount
- 143 people, up from 17 over the last 17 months
- Evidence current to
- 12 September 2026
What you should know before joining
Granola has raised $192M to date.
Last round Series C. Announced 2026-03-25.
5 people left Granola in the last 12 months, an annualised rate of 5.3%.
5 departures over 12 months against a mean monthly roster computed from the headcount series.
People who leave Granola go to Wix, Proven Patterns, RNNR Studio, Saru (formerly Snow Leopard) and 6 other companies.
Destination companies taken from the roster's departure records.
Warning signs checked
- Not checked: Runway is not modelled and the postings history is a single snapshot, so neither half of this flag could be checked.
- Not checked: No company-claimed headcount was retrieved to compare against the roster.
- Not checked: Traffic is not falling materially.
7 checks listed by the pipeline. An untested check is not an all-clear.
Your future team
The roster shows 126 individual contributors and an average management span of 8.4.
The team grew 148% over twelve months to 143 people. 5 people left in the same period — 5% annualised, or roughly one in 19 of the people who onboard you.
Monthly headcount and departures
| Month | Headcount | Recorded departures |
|---|---|---|
| Mar 25 | 17 | 0 |
| Apr 25 | 21 | 0 |
| May 25 | 22 | 0 |
| Jun 25 | 26 | 0 |
| Jul 25 | 36 | 0 |
| Aug 25 | 45 | 0 |
| Sep 25 | 46 | 0 |
| Oct 25 | 56 | 2 |
| Nov 25 | 59 | 0 |
| Dec 25 | 67 | 0 |
| Jan 26 | 73 | 1 |
| Feb 26 | 84 | 0 |
| Mar 26 | 90 | 0 |
| Apr 26 | 104 | 0 |
| May 26 | 112 | 0 |
| Jun 26 | 123 | 1 |
| Jul 26 | 131 | 1 |
| Aug 26 | 139 | 0 |
Team size by function, with average tenure beside each. Technical is the largest at 22 people. Sales stays shortest at 6 months across 16 people.
Additional context
- Attrition is stated here as 5.3%, recomputed from the roster series. The evidence below carries the supplier's own figure of 4.7%; it uses a different monthly denominator. The computed value is the one quoted above.
Who leads
Confirmed as founders: Christopher Pedregal as CEO and Sam Stephenson as founder. Previously at Socratic, Google and Stack.
There is no VP layer above the 6 managers running 143 people, about 8.4 people each. No founder has run a company before, though prior employers include Google.
Founders
Previously at Socratic, Google, Stack.
SourcePreviously at Mostly Rectangles, Carv, Ideaflow Inc., SWIM SMOOTH LTD, Cowry Consulting, Sow.
SourceWe haven’t confirmed who reports to whom.
Building the technology
Customers and growth
People, legal and other
We haven’t confirmed who reports to whom.
What to ask about this
- How long has the senior layer been in place?
Who left
Left within 6 months
William Loveday-Powell
Growth Intern
- Joined
- May 2025
- Left
- October 2025
Stayed 6 to 12 months
Leo Guinan
Supreme Director of Vibe Coding and Grand Architect of Unhinged Manifestos
- Joined
- January 2025
- Left
- December 2025
Where people move
10 companies appear as previous employers and 10 companies appear as next employers. The two counts are separate populations — people here now, and people who left — so they do not trace individual journeys.
Previous companies
Next companies
These are separate groups. The chart doesn’t show individual journeys from one company to another.
The actual work
Granola has 15 active job postings, clustering around building the AI meeting-notes product and expanding the commercial team. The titles also include a customer-success role and a revenue-operations role, suggesting hiring spans both product development and adoption.
Building the meeting product
The mix points to work across the product’s desktop experience, transcription and AI systems, core engineering, and design.
- Product Engineer (Windows)
- Product Designer
- Design Engineer
- Product Engineer (Full Stack)
- Product Engineer (Backend)
- Product Engineer (Transcription)
- AI Engineer
Winning and supporting customers
The commercial titles suggest a push across customer success, sales development, and multiple account segments.
- Customer Success Manager
- Sales Development Representative
- Account Executive, Mid Market
- Account Executive, Enterprise
- Sales Development Representative
- Account Executive, High Velocity
Making revenue operations work
The Revenue Operations Lead - US title points to dedicated operational work around the company’s revenue activity.
How current this is
The record shows 15 active job postings against 14 distinct titles in the title list; the company’s job-board summary separately reports 16 open roles. Postings may have opened or closed since, so the signal is the kind of work Granola is hiring around, not the exact count.
Product and customers
The site sees 2,505,018 visits a month. 12 dated partnerships, integrations or launches are on record.
What has shipped
On May 14, 2025, Granola launched collaborative features, including a team sharing feature. A Hacker News post dated Jul 29, 2026 also linked to Granola for Apple Watch.
That suggests Granola has expanded beyond an individual meeting-notepad experience toward shared and device-specific use.
Who is using it
The record does not name customer partnerships. TechCrunch reported on Oct 23, 2024 that Granola had become a popular tool among venture capitalists who use it to record meetings and augment notes with AI.
That report indicates interest among venture capitalists, but it does not establish how many users are active, paying, or part of organizations of any particular size.
What is still being built
A Mar 25, 2026 report describes Granola as expanding from a meeting notetaker to an enterprise AI app.
This is a stated direction rather than evidence that the enterprise AI app is already a live capability.
How traffic is moving
Estimated monthly website visits increased from 1,883,361 in June to 2,132,027 in July, then 2,505,018 in August 2026 — roughly a 33% increase from June to August.
This is website traffic only. It counts arrivals at the site, which is not the same as what Granola sells or delivers. Read it as a measure of attention rather than product adoption.
What the public record does not tell us
For a meeting-notetaking product, the record does not state active users, paying customers, revenue, retention, meeting or note volume, or the number and size of enterprise customers.
The evidence supports judging Granola's product direction and some reported user interest, but not its commercial scale or customer economics.
What to ask about this
- Which way is traffic going?
Money
$125M raised in a Series C closed 6 months ago, from Index Ventures, Kleiner Perkins, Lightspeed. A further round is reported, with no amount disclosed (linkedin.com), though nothing shows it has closed — that money is not in the bank yet.
- 2026-03-25
$125M
Series C · Index Ventures, Kleiner Perkins, Lightspeed, Spark, NFDG
What to ask about this
- How many months of runway are you working with?
Working here
This is our interpretation of the evidence. The company hasn’t confirmed it.
The subject they keep returning to is management and how much people learn. One of them: “Third, leadership takes a genuine interest in people's development, not just their output”.
- positive
- 31
- neutral
- 6
- negative
- 8
45 accounts of working here, written by people who do not work for the company. A further 15 accounts were posted by the company or its staff and are not counted here.
What people wrote
42 accounts from outside the company, quoted as written.
- “Granola is by far the worst, and I wouldn't recommend anyone use it in a professional setting.” — Reddit
- “it wasn't able to meaningfully add takeaways or to-do items, and frequently missed entire lines of discussion.” — Reddit
- “Good luck with your marketing campaign.” — Reddit
- “If remembering what I was doing in the previous meeting was enough to do my job then I could be replaced by Copilot pretty easily.” — Reddit
- “It's a startup, so ambiguity comes with the territory.” — Glassdoor
- “there's a lot to do, things can change very quickly.” — Glassdoor
What we couldn’t verify
- Working at The Granola Bar: Employee Reviews | Indeed.comOriginal source ↗
Competition
8 other companies are building in AI meeting notes and meeting assistants. The best-funded of them on the public record are Read AI ($81M), Otter.ai ($70M) and Fireflies.ai ($19M), none of them above the $192M raised here. No source states what 3 of them have raised, so treat that as unknown rather than as nothing.
| Company | Total raised |
|---|---|
| Granolathis company | $192M |
| Read AI | $81M |
| Otter.ai | $70M |
| Fireflies.ai | $19M |
| Avoma | $15M |
| Supernormal | $13M |
Total raised by each company in this market, from the sources linked below. 3 more were found with no funding figure on the record.
Otter.ai
Otter records or captures meetings, produces transcripts, and generates AI summaries, action items, and searchable meeting records.
Overlaps on AI-generated meeting notes, transcripts, actions, and meeting memory for individuals and teams.
Company website ↗Funding source ↗United States · Founded 2016
Fireflies.ai
Fireflies records and transcribes meetings, extracts summaries and action items, and connects conversation data to collaboration, CRM, and workflow tools.
Overlaps on automated meeting capture, notes, action items, search, and post-meeting workflow automation.
Company website ↗Funding source ↗United States · Founded 2016
Fathom
Fathom records or captures online meetings and generates transcripts, summaries, action items, and follow-up content.
Overlaps on AI meeting notes, meeting memory, action tracking, and post-meeting follow-up.
Company website ↗United States · Founded 2020
Read AI
Read AI generates meeting transcripts, summaries, highlights, engagement measures, and action items, and also summarizes email and messaging activity.
Overlaps on meeting summaries, searchable conversation memory, and automated follow-up information.
Company website ↗Funding source ↗United States · Founded 2021
Avoma
Avoma prepares meeting agendas, transcribes conversations, generates notes and action items, and provides conversation intelligence and CRM workflows, particularly for customer-facing teams.
Overlaps on AI meeting notes and actions, with additional sales and revenue-team workflow features.
Company website ↗Funding source ↗United States · Founded 2017
Supernormal
Supernormal captures meeting audio from a user’s computer without a meeting bot, then generates notes, action items, and follow-up documents from the conversation.
Overlaps directly on bot-free meeting capture, AI notes, actions, and post-meeting work products.
Company website ↗Funding source ↗Sweden · Founded 2020
Microsoft
Microsoft Teams with Copilot generates meeting notes, summaries, decisions, questions, and follow-up tasks within Microsoft’s collaboration suite.
Its broader collaboration platform includes native AI meeting notes for organizations already using Teams.
Company website ↗United States · Founded 1975
Zoom
Zoom provides video meetings with built-in AI features that summarize conversations, identify key points, and support meeting follow-up within its communications platform.
Its broader video-conferencing platform includes native AI meeting summaries for organizations already using Zoom.
Company website ↗United States · Founded 2011
Questions to ask before joining
How many months of runway are you working with right now?
Why it’s worth asking
No public source discloses cash or burn, so this report cannot estimate runway and neither can anyone else outside the company.
What a useful answer would include
A number of months, and what they would slow down if it got shorter.
What to ask if the answer is vague
“We're well capitalised.” That is not a number.
5 departures in the last twelve months. Were any of them on the team I'd be joining?
Why it’s worth asking
The roster shows about 5 departures over twelve months. You already know the number — what you are listening for is whether theirs is close to it, and how readily it comes.
What a useful answer would include
Specific reasons per person, roughly matching what is public.
What to ask if the answer is vague
A count materially below the public roster, or “they weren't a fit”.
The team's grown 148% this year, to 143. What's changed most about how you work?
Why it’s worth asking
Headcount moved about 148% in twelve months, to 143. That always rewrites how a company operates, and the honest version of the answer describes the job better than the job description does.
What a useful answer would include
A specific thing that stopped working, and what they replaced it with.
What to ask if the answer is vague
Treating the growth itself as the answer.
About 8.4 people per manager across the company. How many would be on mine?
Why it’s worth asking
The roster puts about 8.4 people under each manager, which is ordinary. What matters is your specific manager's load and how long they have been in the seat — neither is public.
What a useful answer would include
A number, a cadence, and a manager who has been there long enough to know the team.
What to ask if the answer is vague
“We're pretty flat” — which describes the chart, not your week.
Who else did your last few customers look at before choosing you?
Why it’s worth asking
Public sources name the other companies in this market but not who wins. The answer tells you whether they know their own market.
What a useful answer would include
A named competitor and a specific missing capability, without defensiveness.
What to ask if the answer is vague
“We don't really have competitors.”
Evidence and limits.
Grey highlights information we couldn’t establish. Amber highlights information that sources disagree on.
Sources and research notes
Every figure here is computed from the evidence and links to its source. AI gathers that evidence and reads the pages it comes from, so a wrong source or a misread page can still reach this report — follow the links before you rely on anything here.
Nothing is scored or ranked. A grade would compress this into a number about the people who work there, and hide what matters more: which questions the public record can answer, and which you will have to ask them yourself.
Coverage says how much of each question the record could answer. Under 50%, treat it as unanswered rather than settled.
Runway is not modelled. No public source discloses cash position or burn, so no runway figure appears anywhere in this report.
Of 60 workplace observations, 15 came from the company or its founders and 45 from independent voices.
2 observations came from a page that also names a similarly named company. Shown under the question it belongs to, and left out of the figures.
Other unverified claims
- Working at The Granola Bar: Employee Reviews | Indeed.comSource ↗
Every source behind this report (70)
Published about the company (16)
Granola raises $125M, hits $1.5B valuation as it expands from meeting notetaker to enterprise AI app | TechCrunch
techcrunch.com ↗As of 2026-03-25 · Retrieved 2026-09-12AI notetaking app Granola raises $43M at $250M valuation, launches collaborative features | TechCrunch
Granola on Wednesday said it has raised $43 million in a Series B funding round led by Nat Friedman and Daniel Gross’s venture firm, NFDG, at a valuation of $250 million.
techcrunch.com ↗As of 2025-05-14 · Retrieved 2026-09-12VCs love using the AI meeting notepad Granola, so they gave it $20M
techcrunch.com ↗As of 2024-10-23 · Retrieved 2026-09-12AI notetaker Granola hits $1.5 billion value in $125 million funding - The Economic Times
Granola, an AI notetaking startup, is raising $125 million at a $1.5 billion valuation, led by Index Ventures, with support from Kleiner Perkins, Lightspeed Venture Partners and Spark Capital.
economictimes.indiatimes.com ↗As of 2026-09-08 · Retrieved 2026-09-12AI notetaking app Granola raises $43M at $250M valuation ...
The round brings the company’s total funding raised to $67 million.
techcrunch.com ↗As of 2025-05-14 · Retrieved 2026-09-12Granola launches an Apple Watch app - TechCrunch
Granola became a unicorn earlier this year with a $125 million Series C round that was led by Index Ventures.
techcrunch.com ↗As of 2026-07-28 · Retrieved 2026-09-12AI Notetaker Granola Hits $1.5 Billion Value in $125 Million ...
Granola Inc., a startup whose artificial intelligence software has been gaining traction as a notetaking tool among Silicon Valley workers, is raising $125 million at a $1.5 billion valuation, led by Index Ventures.
www.bloomberg.com ↗As of 2026-03-25 · Retrieved 2026-09-12Granola raises $125M at $1.5B valuation to turn meetings into enterprise AI context | TNW
thenextweb.com ↗As of 2026-03-25 · Retrieved 2026-09-12Granola raises $125M at $1.5BN valuation - Tech.eu
Granola, which launched in 2023, has raised around $188m in total.
tech.eu ↗As of 2026-03-25 · Retrieved 2026-09-12Latest Granola News & Announcements | Distill
Granola, a provider of AI-powered notetaking services, faces a wiretapping lawsuit in California federal court claiming its software secretly records virtual meeting conversations without the...
www.distillintelligence.com ↗As of 2026-08-27 · Retrieved 2026-09-12Granola Launches AI Workspace for Teams and Raises $43M Series B
www.businesswire.com ↗As of 2025-05-14 · Retrieved 2026-09-12Granola | Lightspeed | Venture Capital
lsvp.com ↗As of 2026-02-10 · Retrieved 2026-09-12Granola in a $4.25M pre-seed investment round from Lightspeed Ventures | Nordic 9
Total investments received (USD): 192.25m
nordic9.com ↗Retrieved 2026-09-12Granola raised a $20 million Series A led by Spark Capital, along with Nat Friedman, Daniel Gross, AI Grant, Lightspeed, Betaworks, Firstmin
Total investments received (USD): 67.25M
nordic9.com ↗Retrieved 2026-09-12Put your Meetings to Work with Chris Pedregal, founder of Granola - Ness Labs
nesslabs.com ↗As of 2024-10-03 · Retrieved 2026-09-12The 5 Hidden Rules Behind Successful AI Products | Chris Pedregal
creatoreconomy.so ↗As of 2025-08-24 · Retrieved 2026-09-12
Reviews and public forums (11)
Very positive experience
Friendly and collaborative environment. Lovely people.
www.glassdoor.com ↗Retrieved 2026-09-12r/ProductivityApps on Reddit: Granola.ai vs. MeetGeek vs. Fellow
Granola is by far the worst, and I wouldn't recommend anyone use it in a professional setting.
www.reddit.com ↗As of 2025-09-08 · Retrieved 2026-09-12r/EngineeringManagers on Reddit: Using Granola for a month now. How are other EMs leveraging it?
How are other EMs actually using Granola?
www.reddit.com ↗As of 2026-03-21 · Retrieved 2026-09-12r/ArtificialInteligence on Reddit: Granola AI is still the best regarding meeting notes?
I'm a founder and have had horrible experiences with Granola.
www.reddit.com ↗Retrieved 2026-09-12Granola for Apple Watch | Hacker News
Granola terrifies me. It’s highly capable at summarisation, and seems to be free.
news.ycombinator.com ↗As of 2026-07-29 · Retrieved 2026-09-12Granola Reviews (2026) | Product Hunt
www.producthunt.com ↗Retrieved 2026-09-12Granola Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2
www.g2.com ↗Retrieved 2026-09-12Granola Customers | Product Hunt
www.producthunt.com ↗As of 2024-05-21 · Retrieved 2026-09-12Granola: The AI notepad for people in back-to-back meetings | Product Hunt
www.producthunt.com ↗As of 2026-07-13 · Retrieved 2026-09-12Granola | https://granola.so | Full-time | Engineering | Hybrid/ONSITE | London,... | Hacker News
news.ycombinator.com ↗As of 2023-05-01 · Retrieved 2026-09-12Working at The Granola Bar: Employee Reviews | Indeed.com
While there are some good people working here, my overall experience was disappointing.
www.indeed.com ↗As of 2018-07-11 · Retrieved 2026-09-12
The company’s own pages (1)
Granola raises $125M to put your company's context to work | Granola
www.granola.ai ↗As of 2026-03-25 · Retrieved 2026-09-12
Profiles and company databases (13)
Granola 2026 Company Profile: Valuation, Funding & Investors | PitchBook
| 1. Seed Round | 14-Apr-2023 | $4.25M | $4.25M | | Completed | Startup |
pitchbook.com ↗Retrieved 2026-09-12Why Big Investors Are All Ears For Voice AI Startups
news.crunchbase.com ↗As of 2025-09-10 · Retrieved 2026-09-12Granola - 2026 Funding Rounds & List of Investors - Tracxn
Granola has raised a total of $192M over 4 funding rounds: 1 Seed, 2 Early-Stage and 1 Late-Stage rounds.
tracxn.com ↗As of 2026-06-27 · Retrieved 2026-09-12Granola - 2026 Company Profile & Team - Tracxn
Granola has raised $192M in funding from investors like Lightspeed Venture Partners, Index Ventures and Spark Capital, with a current valuation of $1.5B.
tracxn.com ↗As of 2026-08-24 · Retrieved 2026-09-122026 Funding Rounds & List of Investors - Granola - Tracxn
tracxn.com ↗As of 2026-07-06 · Retrieved 2026-09-12GRANOLA LABS LTD - 2026 Company Profile - Tracxn
tracxn.com ↗As of 2025-07-04 · Retrieved 2026-09-12Granola Raises Series C with Index Ventures, Expands Team ...
www.linkedin.com ↗As of 2026-03-25 · Retrieved 2026-09-12Granola Raises Series C, Introduces APIs and Spaces - LinkedIn
$1.5B
www.linkedin.com ↗As of 2026-03-25 · Retrieved 2026-09-12App maker Granola raises $125M at $1.5B valuation - LinkedIn
Granola Inc., a startup known for its AI-powered notetaking software, is raising$125 million at a $1.5 billion valuation, led by Index Ventures.
www.linkedin.com ↗As of 2026-03-26 · Retrieved 2026-09-12Granola Raises $125m Series C at $1.5bn Valuation - LinkedIn
Granola has raised a WHOPPING $125m Series C
www.linkedin.com ↗As of 2026-03-25 · Retrieved 2026-09-12Granola is hiring engineers, and people in marketing, and salespeople, and I want to tell you what it's actually like here. | Jo Barrow
how much the founders meant it about work/life balance
www.linkedin.com ↗As of 2026-02-11 · Retrieved 2026-09-12Lise Slimane's Post - LinkedIn
Scaling culture is hard, and it does not happen by accident.
www.linkedin.com ↗As of 2026-07-20 · Retrieved 2026-09-12We’re hiring across all teams at Granola. | Camilla Bier
We’re hiring across all teams at Granola.
www.linkedin.com ↗As of 2026-02-16 · Retrieved 2026-09-12
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B2B data providersRetrieved 2026-09-1215 active job postings
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