Grain is an AI notetaker built for growing revenue and customer teams, providing accurate meeting summaries, account insights, and coaching suggestions in an easy-to-use product. Grain records and transcribes meetings, then turns conversations into shareable highlight clips, structured notes, and analytics that sync automatically into CRMs and tools like Slack. Beyond basic notetaking, Grain layers in deal and account intelligence plus coaching prompts to help sales and customer success managers improve. The company raised a $16M Series A led by Tiger Global's John Curtius in November 2024, with participation from the Zoom Apps Fund, Unusual Ventures, and Freestyle VC. Grain positions itself as a more affordable, team-oriented meeting intelligence platform that competes with larger conversation-intelligence incumbents.
Grain
ActiveAI notetaker for accurate meeting summaries, insights, and coaching
Total raised
$16M
1 round
Stage
Series A
Team
11-50
since 2018
Pricing
Freemium
free plan
Founded
2018
San Francisco, United States
Agent-ready
API
Score 40/100
AI meeting recording and transcription
Accurate meeting summaries
Account and deal insights
Coaching suggestions for reps
Highlight clips for sharing
CRM sync (HubSpot, Salesforce)
Slack and collaboration integrations
Searchable meeting library
40/100
Developing
MCP server
Public API
Webhooks
OAuth 2.0
SDKs
— Series A $16M incl. Freestyle VC +3
Capital network
$20M raised ·4 backers·10 network links
- Backers4
- Shared portfoliocompanies these backers also fund
- Extended networkfunds that co-invest alongside them
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- What does Grain do?
- Grain records meetings and delivers AI summaries, account insights, and coaching suggestions for revenue teams.
- Does Grain integrate with CRMs?
- Yes, Grain syncs meeting notes and insights to CRMs like HubSpot and Salesforce.
- Who invested in Grain?
- Grain's $16M Series A was led by Tiger Global with Zoom Apps Fund, Unusual Ventures, and Freestyle VC.
- Is Grain free?
- Grain offers a freemium model with paid tiers for teams and advanced features.
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