Granola at a glance
Question | Answer | As of |
|---|---|---|
Who owns Granola? | Its founders, employees and venture investors; no acquirer and no public shares | Nov 2026 |
Revenue | Not disclosed; it grew 2.5 times from January to March 2026 | Mar 25, 2026 |
Valuation | $1.5B, set by a $125M Series C led by Index Ventures | Mar 25, 2026 |
Total raised | About $192M across four rounds | Mar 2026 |
Customers | Vanta, Gusto, Thumbtack, Asana, Cursor, Lovable, Decagon and Mistral AI, among others | Mar 2026 |
CEO | Chris Pedregal, co-founder | Nov 2026 |
Founded | March 2023 in London, by Chris Pedregal and Sam Stephenson | 2023 |
Headquarters | London (Shoreditch); a San Francisco office since April 2026 | Nov 2026 |
Employees | 161 people list Granola as their employer on LinkedIn; about 55 in March 2026 | Nov 1, 2026 |
Acquisitions | None announced | Nov 2026 |
Website | granola.ai; staff email is on granola.so | Nov 2026 |
Email format | {first}@granola.so | Nov 2026 |
Granola has two companies: Granola, Inc., a Delaware corporation formed in 2023 that sells shares to its investors (SEC), and Granola Labs Ltd in the UK, company number 14703652, incorporated on March 3, 2023 (Companies House). Its privacy policy names both (Granola).
Who owns Granola?
Granola is private and independent: no acquirer, no shares on any exchange and no announced IPO as of November 2026. It belongs to its founders, employees and investors; no ownership stakes have been published.
Investor | Role in Granola’s funding |
|---|---|
Index Ventures | Danny Rimer led the $125M Series C (Mar 2026) (Granola) |
Kleiner Perkins | Mamoon Hamid joined the Series C (Mar 2026) (Granola) |
NFDG (Nat Friedman and Daniel Gross) | Led the $43M Series B (May 2025) (TechCrunch); Friedman and Gross also joined the Series A (TechCrunch) |
Spark Capital | Nabeel Hyatt led the $20M Series A (Oct 2024) (TechCrunch) and is a director (SEC) |
Lightspeed | Michael Mignano led the $4.25M seed round (May 2023) (Lightspeed) and is a director (SEC) |
Betaworks and Firstminute Capital | Seed and Series A (TechCrunch) |
Angel investors | Mike Krieger and Soleio Cuervo in the seed round (TechCrunch); Guillermo Rauch (Vercel), Amjad Masad (Replit), Tobi Lütke (Shopify) and Karri Saarinen (Linear) in the Series B (TechCrunch) |
Granola, Inc.’s 2024 filing lists four directors: Chris Pedregal, Sam Stephenson, Michael Mignano and Nabeel Hyatt (SEC). Lightspeed, Spark and NFDG all invested again in the Series C (Granola).
What is Granola’s revenue?
Granola doesn’t publish revenue. When it raised its Series C in March 2026, Pedregal told Bloomberg that revenue had grown 2.5 times since January, but wouldn’t give a dollar figure (Implicator). It hasn’t disclosed user counts or retention either (The Next Web). The usage figures it has shared are older:
Date | Figure | Source |
|---|---|---|
Mar 25, 2026 | Revenue up 2.5 times since January 2026 | |
May 14, 2025 | User base growing 10% every week since launch; no user count given | |
Oct 23, 2024 | About 5,000 weekly users, five times more than at launch in May; 70% of people who try it in their first week come back |
Granola spreads from individual users to whole companies. Customers it names include Vanta, Gusto, Thumbtack and Asana, and startups such as Cursor, Lovable, Decagon and Mistral AI (Granola). In October 2024 it said partners at Benchmark, Sequoia, Accel and Union Square Ventures used it to take pitches (Granola).
How much did Granola raise? Funding and valuation
Granola has raised about $192 million in four rounds. Its valuation rose from $250 million at the May 2025 Series B to $1.5 billion at the March 2026 Series C, six times higher in ten months (TechCrunch).
Round | Announced | Amount | Led by | Valuation | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Series C | Mar 25, 2026 | $125M | Index Ventures | $1.5B | |
Series B | May 14, 2025 | $43M | NFDG | $250M | |
Series A | Oct 23, 2024 | $20M | Spark Capital | Not disclosed | |
Seed | May 8, 2023 | $4.25M | Lightspeed | Not disclosed |
Why the totals differ
$192 million is the sum of the four rounds, and the figure TechCrunch gives (TechCrunch).
“Around $188m”, in Tech.eu’s Series C report (Tech.eu), equals the three rounds since 2024 without the seed.
SEC filings show less, because Granola, Inc. has filed only two: $3.4 million sold of a $4.25 million offering, first sale March 20, 2023 (SEC), and $19.0 million of $20.0 million, first sale July 24, 2024 (SEC). So the Series A closed three months before it was announced. We found no filing for the Series B or C.
Who is the CEO of Granola?
Chris Pedregal is Granola’s co-founder and CEO. He joined Google as an associate product manager in 2008, left to co-found the homework app Socratic, which Google bought in 2018, and left Google again in 2022 to experiment with OpenAI’s models (Platformer). He co-founded Granola with Sam Stephenson in March 2023 (TechCrunch).
Person | Role | Since |
|---|---|---|
Chris Pedregal | Co-founder, CEO; executive officer and director (SEC) | Mar 2023 |
Sam Stephenson | Co-founder; executive officer and director; previously at the note-taking app Ideaflow (TechCrunch) | Mar 2023 |
Michael Mignano | Director; partner at Lightspeed, which led the seed round (SEC) | By 2024 |
Nabeel Hyatt | Director; partner at Spark Capital, which led the Series A (SEC) | By 2024 |
Full bio and contact routes: Granola CEO Chris Pedregal: email address, LinkedIn and bio.
Where is Granola headquartered, and how many employees does it have?
Granola is headquartered in London, at 68 Hanbury Street in Shoreditch (LinkedIn), the address on its first SEC filing (SEC). It opened a San Francisco office in April 2026 (Granola). Its UK company’s registered office is in St Albans (Companies House).
Date | Employees | Source |
|---|---|---|
Oct 2024 | An engineering team of five, hiring four more | |
Mar 2026 | About 55 | |
2026 | 56 | LeadWave company data |
Nov 1, 2026 | 161 people list Granola as their employer |
The team is small for its valuation. In March 2026 Pedregal said “It’s obvious our team is too small for what we want to achieve” (Implicator); by November its jobs page listed open roles in London and San Francisco (Granola).
Is Granola being sued?
Yes. On July 30, 2026, a proposed class action was filed against Granola in the US District Court for the Northern District of California. It alleges that the app records conversations without the consent of all participants and, by default, uses transcripts for commercial purposes, including training its AI models. Granola didn’t respond to Computerworld’s request for comment; its website says data used for training is anonymized and “never sent to third parties” (Computerworld). A similar case against Otter.ai, another AI notetaker, was filed in the same court in 2025. These are allegations; we found no ruling as of November 1, 2026.
What is Granola’s email format?
Granola employees use {first}@granola.so: every address in Prospeo’s sample follows it (Prospeo). Staff mail runs on Google Workspace at granola.so, while the website is granola.ai.
Need | Official address |
|---|---|
Support and account requests | hey@granola.so |
Sales and SSO | sales@granola.so |
Security reports | security@granola.so |
Privacy | privacy@granola.so |
All patterns, domains and official inboxes: Granola email format.
Key events: from a closed beta to $1.5 billion
Granola ran a closed beta for a year, launched publicly in May 2024 and has since raised three rounds, added apps for Windows, iPhone, Android and Apple Watch, and moved from personal notes to shared team context.
Date | Event |
|---|---|
Oct 29, 2026 | Launches free, unlimited voice typing on Mac, taking on Wispr (TechCrunch) |
Jul 30, 2026 | A proposed class action over recording consent is filed in California (Computerworld) |
Jul 28, 2026 | Launches an Apple Watch app (TechCrunch) |
Jul 1, 2026 | Launches on Android (Granola) |
Apr 2026 | Opens a San Francisco office (Granola) |
Mar 25, 2026 | $125M Series C at a $1.5B valuation; launches Spaces and APIs for teams and enterprises (Granola) |
Feb 4, 2026 | Launches Granola MCP, which brings meeting notes into Claude, ChatGPT and Cursor (Granola) |
Sep 30, 2025 | Launches Recipes in a rebuilt Granola Chat (Granola) |
Jun 11, 2025 | Launches on Windows (Granola) |
May 14, 2025 | $43M Series B at a $250M valuation; Granola 2.0 adds shared team folders (Granola) |
Apr 30, 2025 | Launches on iPhone (Granola) |
Oct 23, 2024 | $20M Series A led by Spark Capital (Granola) |
May 22, 2024 | Public launch of the Mac app, after a year-long closed beta (Granola) |
May 8, 2023 | $4.25M seed round led by Lightspeed (Lightspeed) |
Mar 2023 | Founded in London by Chris Pedregal and Sam Stephenson (TechCrunch) |
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