The two come on the heels of Libin’s first investment at GC, for another productivity bot service still in stealth called Begin, co-founded by Ryan Block (a serial entrepreneur who has sold two past companies to AOL, which also owns TechCrunch) and Brian Leroux. Growbot’s motivational tool essentially works in the background, letting you rack up and chart praise for people, with the service triggered by certain keywords.īutter.ai, meanwhile, should launch later this year, and, according to a short post from Jack Hirsch (Evernote’s former VP of product who is now CEO of Butter.ai), it sounds like the idea will be to give users a way of finding things in their trove of work documents and other data by asking the Butter bot questions.
Growbot has been in the market for about a year and has 4,800 companies using its free bot, writes founder Jeremy Vandehey. And Growbot, a messaging bot designed for congratulating co-workers via Slack, has raised a seed round of $1.7 million, with other investors including XSeed Capital and Inventus Capital Partners. Now those investments are coming to light.īutter.ai - started by a team of ex-Evernoters - has raised a seed round of $3 million from General Catalyst for a productivity app that is still in stealth. Earlier this year, Phil Libin, the former CEO of Evernote who is now a venture capitalist at General Catalyst, laid out plans to fund and support (and maybe even build?) his own startups in the burgeoning world of bots - services that use conversational interfaces and varying degrees of artificial intelligence to provide users with information, products and more.
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