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Granola funding, valuation and investors

AI meeting notes that convert transcripts into actionable workflow outputs, not summaries.

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Funding, valuation & investors

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Latest funding

Growth

$125M · March 2026

Latest known valuation

$1.5B

Growth · March 2026

Total disclosed equity funding

$125M

Excludes debt, grants, acquisitions, secondaries, and IPO proceeds.

Current status

private

growth

Sources: latest funding Last verified: 2026-07-25

Overview

Granola captures meeting audio and turns transcripts into structured notes, action items, and workflow outputs integrated into how teams operate — expanding from notetaker to enterprise AI app. The company raised $125M in March 2026 at a $1.5B valuation per TechCrunch. LLM accuracy and latency now support daily meeting workflows, but buyers require enterprise governance that consumer transcription apps lack.

Why Granola is interesting

Granola's $125M round at $1.5B valuation shows meeting-note winners must become operational systems. Enterprise buyers now demand governance and integrations beyond consumer transcription.

Product & use cases

AI meeting capture and note generation with enterprise integrations — converting conversations into structured operational outputs.

  • Daily meeting documentation for product and sales teams
  • Action-item extraction into project management workflows
  • Enterprise meeting governance with admin controls

Key facts

  • Growth (Mar 2026): $125M at $1.5B valuation (TechCrunch)
  • Expanding from meeting notetaker to enterprise AI app
  • Workflow outputs vs. summary-only transcription

Funding history (newest first)

Competitive landscape

Edge: Workflow-oriented outputs vs. summary-only transcription — enterprise expansion path from prosumer base.

Meeting AI is crowded with incumbents bundling into suites. Granola wins on workflow depth and enterprise governance; risk is Microsoft/Google native features improving fast.

  • Otter.ai direct

    Meeting transcription incumbent; Granola pushes deeper workflow integration.

  • Fireflies.ai direct

    Meeting AI with CRM integrations; overlapping category.

  • Microsoft Copilot incumbent

    Bundled Teams meeting AI; Granola independent cross-platform.

Notable stories

  • $1.5B valuation reflects meeting notes becoming workflow infrastructure.
  • Enterprise governance demand separates winners from consumer transcription apps.

Industries

Enterprise SaaS AI & Machine Learning

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AI meeting capture and note generation with enterprise integrations — converting conversations into structured operational outputs.
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Stage: growth; status: private.
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