Haystack is a venture capital firm that backs outlier founders at the earliest stages.

Haystack

Andreessen Horowitz is a venture capital firm specializing in investing in seed, start-ups, early, mid-stage, growth, and late-stage. It prefers to invest in the social media business and technology sector with a focus on software, back-end infrastructure, the infrastructure of the Internet, cloud computing, enterprise software and services, consumer, business Internet, mobile-Internet, consumer Internet, cloud computing, data storage, social network browsers data-storage, consumer electronics, networking functions, software related biology, biotech, and medicine companies at the intersection of computer science and life sciences with a focus on digital therapeutics, cloud technology in biology, and computational medicine.

Andreessen Horowitz

Upside Partnership is a venture capital firm that provides seed-stage investment to founders creating high-profile companies. The firm was founded by Kent Goldman in July, 2014 and is headquartered in Mill Valley, California, United States.

Upside Partnership

Rewatch

Rewatch offers a private and secure video channel for teams. Rewatch transcribes your videos and unlocks your team’s spoken knowledge, making it searchable and organized—all in one place.

Rewatch is a company aiming to enhance productivity and streamline communication within organizations. It provides a centralized platform for managing and utilizing video content efficiently. Rewatch acts as a company’s database of meetings held on Zoom or Google Meet. Rewatch integrates with various tools like Slack and Figma, ensuring workflows without disruption. Rewatch transcribes meetings and creates searchable video libraries. Rewatch also allows users to tag and pin specific moments of meetings for asynchronous viewing and direct collaboration. Rewatch's mission is to empower teams to unlock the full potential of their video resources, fostering knowledge sharing and enhancing productivity.&nbsp;

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To enhance virtual meetings by integrating AI-powered features for automated recording, note-taking, and action item management.

Rewatch is a company aiming to enhance productivity and streamline communication within organizations. It provides a centralized platform for managing and utilizing video content efficiently. Rewatch acts as a company’s database of meetings held on Zoom or Google Meet. Rewatch integrates with various tools like Slack and Figma, ensuring workflows without disruption. Rewatch transcribes meetings and creates searchable video libraries. Rewatch also allows users to tag and pin specific moments of meetings for asynchronous viewing and direct collaboration. Rewatch's mission is to empower teams to unlock the full potential of their video resources, fostering knowledge sharing and enhancing productivity.&nbsp;Key customers and partnershipsSome of its customers include GitHub, Brex, Envoy, and The Athletic.&nbsp;Funding and financialsIn <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/965">May 2021</a>, the firm launched out of invite-only beta&nbsp; along with a USD 20 million Series A funding round led by Andreessen Horowitz. The round also included participation from Semil Shah (Haystack) and Kent Goldman (Upside Partnership), and individual investors Jack Altman (CEO, Lattice), Christina Kosmowski (President, LogicMonitor), Max Mullen (Co-Founder, Instacart), and Larry Gadea (CEO, Envoy).&nbsp;In <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/898">January 2021</a>, Rewatch raised USD 2 million in a seed funding round led by Semil Shah (Haystack). The funds were allocated for product development.

Hive is a productivity platform for project management and collaboration. The platform provides automated workflows, project planning layouts, and action templates to assign and keep track of project tasks. Hive focuses on improving task execution with instant feedback cycles for editing and approvals. Additional features include note taking (Hive Note), instant messaging, online meetings, and file sharing.Hive offers a variety of ways for teams to organize their projects, including Gantt charts, Kanban boards, tables, and calendars, with updates made in one view automatically reflected in all others. The platform allows team members to create action cards with files, sub-actions, dependencies, and comments to stay on top of their objectives, and have access to a personal to-do list that compiles all assigned tasks from all projects. Managers can use Hive to assign approvals, share proofs, provide feedback, and collect project forms from clients and customers. Hive also uses AI and machine learning to provide insights on team productivity and identify potential risks, and to optimize resource allocation and client billing.Key customers and partnershipsThe company’s customer base includes Google, Toyota, Comcast, and Starbucks. Hive offers integrations with over 1,000 SaaS platforms, including Asana, Trello, Basecamp, and Smartsheet, allowing users to import tasks from these platforms.Funding and financialsIn <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/5208">August 2021</a>, Hive raised USD 10 million in a funding round led by Rembrandt Venture Partners with participation from Zoom, and existing investors Tribeca Venture Partners and Angelpad. Hive is one of the first startups to receive an investment from Zoom’s “Zoom Apps Fund” (a USD 100 million global venture fund). The fresh funds were allocated toward platform development.&nbsp;

Hive

Grain’s software allows users to record, highlight, transcribe, and share online meeting content from tools such as Zoom in an effective manner. It automatically records and transcribes meetings, allowing users to create shareable video clips from highlighted transcript sections. Grain leverages AI to generate customizable meeting notes and answer questions about the transcript. It supports coaching and collaboration through comments and training content creation. The platform offers deal analytics and insights, tracking key account activities and integrating with tools like HubSpot, Salesforce, Zapier, and Slack. &nbsp;The company’s products focus on distributed teams, sales, product and user research, and hiring teams.In April 2022, the company acquired Ping Pong, a video messaging platform.Funding and financialsIn <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/9759">April 2022</a>, Grain raised USD 16 million in Series A funding led by Tiger Global Management. The funds were raised to expand operations and develop its ​​video meeting system of record for content, which allows employees to collaborate around insights, topics, relationships, or teams.

Grain

Air is a creative operations platform designed for creative teams to streamline their workflows and collaborate more effectively. It offers a comprehensive solution that goes beyond basic cloud storage systems, catering specifically to the needs of the creative process. Air allows users to collect content, approve assets, share versions for feedback, and organize their work seamlessly, eliminating the need for additional organizational efforts.Air provides a centralized hub for content collaboration, approval, and versioning. Air's technology streamlines various aspects of the creative workflow, including content collection, asset approval, version control, and feedback sharing. Unlike traditional cloud storage solutions, Air's platform is tailored to the specific requirements of creative teams, enabling them to work more efficiently and effectively.Key customers and PartnershipsThe company’s customer base includes notable firms such as Native, Together, Spindrift, and Univision.&nbsp;Funding and financialsIn <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/8139">January 2022</a>, Air raised USD 10 million in an “Operator Round” led by Headline with participation from Tiger Global, Lere Hippeau, and 50+ strategic founders and marketing executives including Peter Rahal (Co-Founder, RXBAR), Kipp Bodnar (CMO, HubSpot), and Joe Thomas (CEO, Loom), valuing the company at USD 110 million. The funds were used to accelerate Air’s go-to-market activities and growth.

Acapela was co-founded by Roland Grenke, founder of Dubsmash, a video sharing social media app. Acapela facilitates online meetings without real-time interaction between participants; instead, members contribute to meetings over time.Acapela provides voice and video messages integrated with popular productivity tools such as Asana, Google Workspace, Notion, and Atlassian. Additionally, meetings will generate tasks and meeting summaries automatically. The company identified distributed tech teams as its initial target segment and plans to shift focus toward small and medium enterprises (SMEs) and larger enterprises eventually. The product is currently in invite-only beta.In October 2020, the company exited stealth mode with a USD 3 million seed funding round led by Visionaries Club. The round included Entrepreneur First and other notable individual investors, such as Christian Reber (founder of presentation software Pitch) and Taavet Hinrikus (founder of online money transfer service TransferWise).

Acapela

iObeya is a cloud-based enterprise visual management platform that enables organizations to digitize their Lean, Agile, and Industry 4.0 practices. The platform provides virtual "Oobeyas" (Japanese for "big room"), which are digital collaborative workspaces where teams can align, synchronize, and visualize their work using digital boards, sticky notes, and other visual tools. iObeya's platform allows teams to recreate the in-person experience of paper-based visual management practices with real-time collaboration, enhancing team efficiency, creativity, and problem-solving.iObeya's technology supports a wide range of enterprise use cases, including industrial product lifecycle management, manufacturing operational excellence, product development, and continuous improvement for business performance and agility. It integrates with various systems like ERP, MES, BI, and Application lifecycle Management (ALM) tools such as Atlassian Jira and Microsoft Azure DevOps Server.Key customers and partnershipsiObeya's customer base includes global enterprises such as Airbus, Thales, Volvo, Philips, Cartier, Axa, Eli Lilly and Company, Western Digital, General Electric, Kimberly-Clark, Danaher, and Sanofi.Funding and FinancialsIn July 2020, iObeya raised USD 17 million in a series A funding round led by Red River West with participation from Atlantic Bridge Capital and Fortino Capital Partners. The funds were allocated to develop its platform further and accelerate the company’s expansion in the US.

iObeya

Platforms that provide virtual workspaces using spatial technology to combine a variety of productivity and collaboration tools in a single space.

Platforms that provide standalone presentation software, prototyping and web development software, templates, and design workspaces.

Platforms that facilitate task delegation and tracking with board, timeline, and kanban style views.

Platforms that provide standalone video communication tools and complementary products such as interactive interfaces, presentation features, and transcription software.

Platforms that offer chat and email-based collaborative tools.

Solutions in this industry hub are predominantly offered under a B2B SaaS model

Some solutions in the virtual office and video conferencing segments are based on AR/VR

Facilitates hybrid workforces by offering tools for employees to collaborate regardless of location

Meeting transcription and note-taking apps, design, and project management tools use AI/ML for product development

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 Atlassian has announced the acquisition of Rewatch, a platform specializing in AI-driven virtual meetings. Plans are underway to integrate Rewatch's technology with Loom, another Atlassian product focusing on asynchronous video communication. 
 The integration aims to introduce innovative, AI-driven aspects to virtual meetings. An automated, AI-powered meeting assistant is expected as part of these developments, capable of recording meetings, transcribing detailed notes, identifying key action items, and sending follow-up information to all attendees. The assistant will be compatible with other mainstream platforms like Zoom, Microsoft Teams, and Google Meet. The assistant's functions will include generating personalized meeting notes, creating and assigning tasks, along with providing thorough transcriptions with the option to translate into over 50 languages.
 Atlassian believes that this integration will foster better visibility and knowledge sharing within organizational structures. Among the anticipated new features are options allowing users to synchronize Loom with their Google or Outlook Calendar, schedule automated recordings of meetings, and set up automatic sharing of and access to recordings based on meeting attendees. These features are projected to be made available in the next few business quarters.
 
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