The application that helps people and teams in the world of work to simplify the lists of their duties-in terms of idealism by organizing and doing some work for them-remains one of the goals that have not been resolved in business technology. It tends to artificial intelligence, at the top of the battle scars once she It is believed that the code has been cracked on how to reach it.
Today, Tana comes out of the ghost, announcing a $ 25 million financing from an interesting list of supporters to start.
In the simplest, Tana is part of the automatic construction menu, observers, filling applications, and partial regulator. It can listen to conversations (for example on zooming) or sound notes directed to Tana itself, copying them and converting them into business elements. Then work on this, depending on what you may have the user with it for this purpose, to create lists and tables of data, web page updates and more.
It also contains a feature called “Supertag”, which it describes as designed on the object -oriented programming that “an irregular transformation into organized information in seconds.”
The ambitious Tana idea is that it will improve over time, as it takes more data, and since its team builds the future repetitions of the platform.
“We are building a graph of knowledge,” said CEO, Targie Vaspoten, in an interview. Tana is a large river flowing into Norway and VASSBON said that the start of the name that was called after. “Tana River of Information,” said.
It aims to both individuals and teams of users – experimental users include engineering, design, content creation, product and management team – the idea is that Tana helps to create data and subsequent procedures that its users generate on a regular day track.
“Everything you do, whether it is talking to your phone, holding a meeting, or writing your own notes, everything is organized automatically and connected together so that our Amnesty International can.”
Outside the gates, there is already some momentum behind the startup. On the back of a famous closed experimental version and oral word, Tana claims that she has already managed to capture 160,000 users on a waiting list, with a heavy concentration of large companies. (This list will start opening today.)
Tana says he had about 30,000 people who used and tested the closed experimental version, which she launched about nine months ago,; 24,000 users have collected on the Tana Slack – Slack, by chance, being another effort to make the work more efficient.
Another momentum behind the scenes. Tana is located in Palo Alto and has a development office and operations in Norway, with three Norwegian founders. VASSBOTN and Grim IVERSEN (CPO) are former Swagin. Miscellaneous, IVERSEN was one of the leading people who build Google Wave, another of the efforts made to solve the problem of tasks and cooperation. They are joined by a third participant’s founder, COO OLAV Kriken, who built a series of digital companies in the country.
The three are well associated with $ 25 million in two slices. In the latest A series A for $ 14 million, Tola Capital, which is the VC that focuses on the programs of the Acting Institutions, with the participation of LightSpeed Venture Partners, Northzone, Alliant VC and First Capital.
The $ 11 million seed tour was supported by La Famiglia (now part of General Catalyst), Lars Rasmussen, co -founder of Dropbox Arash Ferdowsi, founder of Runway Siqi Chen, and the founder of Datadog Olivier Pomeel among nearly twenty others.
All angels are noticeable for their own efforts to build better production tools, several times.
Rasmussen in particular is the software legend. In Google, the foundations and operation of Google Maps, which gave him the green light to try his hand when producing the institution, with a Google wave in the end.
Rasmussen moved to Facebook to work, build and launch the private social network effort to try to fix this problem, another application that is now called the workplace. Over the past few years, it has been working on startups and owners investment. In an interview, he said that Evers was one of a handful of talented people over the years he would be ready for support, “regardless of what.”
“In fact, it put some ideas for Google Wave, but we had no time to build it,” Rasmussen said.
The truth is that many talented builders tried to overcome the mystery/productivity of business programs, yet not all of them work as required. Even the so -called killer, in the end, is about the incoming box to a An enlarged burden Of the different notification type.
The founders of Tana are part of this complex date. Now, their belief is that the circle can finally be completed with an accurate application of artificial intelligence.
This was not a quick process, nor is it supposed to work in a vacuum with no other competitors. The company first met in 2020 and spent time trying to find out the best way to create what he imagined.
“We started building our own models for everything,” said Vassbotn. “But when GPT3 came out, we realized that this would be a race between many players.” He said that many players trying to build productivity, but also those who build large linguistic models.
The company soon controlled, “to ensure that we can support any model in the universe, mainly, and put all our efforts in that,” VASSBOTN continued. “This seems easy, but it is very difficult when you deal with a graph of knowledge, as things should be accurate.” Hence, the long period of four years was nearly four years between the establishment and launch of the closed experimental version.
He currently said, Tana is cooperating mainly with Openai to operate its natural language processing, “but we also use the anthropoor and Grok, and we have some local models working on your computer based on open source models.”
Artificial intelligence is used in Tana not only to absorb and process information but also to understand where the information is sent, and what you do with it.
He said: “I think about Tana as a cactal of tools,” saying that it is now integrating with about 50 different tools (such as zooming), all of which are also building their Amnesty International jobs to make work for users a little easier. “If all of these tools have their own Amnesty International agent, how will they be on the ground able to cooperate? So you are only essentially ending for copying and paste and you have different information that is not simultaneously everywhere. This is a kind of basic problem that we are trying to solve.”
There will inevitably a number of companies, including current leaders in notes and productivity, such as the idea, and also Ascending to artificial intelligenceYou may also consider how to build an energy -powered auxiliary from artificial intelligence to get around everything we do when we are in a keyboard or screen.
And Tana has ways to go before she is in the stage “she only works”. Kriken, for example, that Tana today “may be the best for technical intelligence professionals” who want to do some tampering to get the product to act how they want it. “But below the line, we really believe that this transforms a model in how we work with information. We imagine Tana used by all knowledge workers.”
Investors are convinced that he deserves to bet. “I met a lot of production companies and I was in space,” said Sheila Julatati, Foundation and Director of Administration in Tula Capital in an interview. “But this is a miracle experience. I use it to run our VC. This is a market that will have real competition and the players who want to win, but this team has a high level of commitment to lead the experience. This is a long game, and its vision of productivity is completely different.”
