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4.25million US dollars
Implicator reported that Lightspeed, betaworks and FirstMinute seeded Granola with $4.25 million in May 2023.
Quote found word for word on the live source, last checked October 19, 2026
In the source's own words
“Lightspeed, betaworks, and FirstMinute seeded the company with $4.25 million in May 2023.”
Granola Raises $125M at $1.5B Valuation for AI Notetaker, Implicator.ai, 2026, Article body, background on earlier rounds.
Open the original- What it measures
- A news article on Granola's later $125M Series C that lists the company's earlier rounds in order. It names the seed investors but not which one led the seed.
- What it does not show
- A news report, not Granola's own announcement, and the seed was not announced in a separate post found here. The month comes from the article only. No seed lead is recorded because the article does not name one.
In the data
A row of Voice AI Funding: Speech and Dictation Startup Rounds, as Granola 2023 seed: 4.3 million US dollars.
- Company
- Granola
- Deal
- Pre-seed or seed
- What the company makes
- Meeting notes
- Announced
- 2023-05
- Year
- 2023