Granola is an AI meeting notepad built for people with back-to-back meetings. The app runs on a user's computer, transcribes meetings, and generates structured notes that adapt to the user's own note-taking style. Founded in 2023, Granola positions itself as a prosumer tool that augments a user's own notes rather than acting purely as a passive transcription bot, aiming to produce more useful, personalized meeting summaries.
The product has expanded from an individual note-taking tool toward features suited to team and enterprise use. Alongside its 2026 funding announcement, Granola introduced Spaces, team workspaces with granular access controls, and new APIs, including a personal API for accessing one's own notes and an enterprise API that lets administrators work with team-wide meeting context in AI workflows.
Granola has reported strong momentum and investor interest. In March 2026, the company raised a $125 million Series C round led by Index Ventures, with participation from Kleiner Perkins and existing investors including Lightspeed, Spark, and NFDG. The round valued Granola at roughly $1.5 billion, a sharp increase from its prior round less than a year earlier, and brought total funding to roughly $192 million.
The company's trajectory reflects a broader trend of AI note-taking tools moving from individual productivity into enterprise knowledge workflows, where meeting context becomes a data source for downstream AI applications. This expansion introduces considerations around data access, permissions, and governance for organizations adopting it broadly.
Because meeting notes can contain sensitive information, organizations evaluating Granola should review its data handling, access controls, and admin capabilities, and confirm that the Spaces permission model and APIs meet their security and compliance requirements before company-wide rollout.