Oslo-based startup Tana, an all-in-one workspace that integrates AI into everyday work, announced a €13.6 million Series A round to further develop their AI agents and voice-powered workflow.
The funding round was led by Tola Capital, with participation from Lightspeed Venture Partners, Northzone, Alliance VC, and firstminute capital, which brings the company’s total funding to €24.3 million.
“The computer was supposed to be the bicycle for the mind. Instead, we got a hamster wheel resulting in loads of work about work,” said Co-founder Tarjei Vassbotn. “With AI we can solve this, but only if we approach knowledge work in a fundamentally different way. Plugging AI into our current fragmented ecosystem of tools will create an even bigger mess.”
Tana was founded in 2021 by Tarjei Vassbotn, Olav Kriken, and Grim Iversen. Vassbotn is an ex-Googler with product and AI experience, and Kriken is a leading growth figure. Iversen has technical expertise regarding information modeling and has worked on productivity systems for the past 25 years, including a central role in developing Google Wave.
Tana is an AI-native workspace that combines a knowledge graph, object-based note-taking, and customisable AI agents to reduce the steps between thinking and doing—taking the user from thought to structured, ready-to-use output in seconds. It streamlines capturing, organising, and applying information.
During its stealth phase, Tana built a waitlist of more than 160,000 users—including representation from over 80% of Fortune 500 companies. Over 30,000 people have tested the platform, and more than 24,000 “Tanarians” contribute to their active Slack community.
“This team’s obsession with transforming productivity for our AI-native world sets them apart. They deeply understand that the future of work will be dynamic and personalized, and their voice-first product represents a bold vision for reshaping how teams collaborate globally,” said Sheila Gulati, founder and managing director of Tola Capital.
Tana is a knowledge graph with connections that mimic the human brain to effectively distribute and scale knowledge. It has a multitude of feeds and mechanisms that resurface, process, and connect information.
Tana outlines Supertax, as their most loved feature. Building on concepts from Object-oriented programming, it transforms unstructured to structured information in seconds. Meaning users can whip up AI workflows, streamline instructions for the AI agents, and instantly transform raw notes and voice recordings into ready-to-use output.
Lars Rasmussen (Founder of Google Maps and the Google Wave CEO) was one of their first backers. Other notable angels are Arash Ferdowsi (Dropbox co-founder), Siqi Chen (Runway founder), Olivier Pomel (Datadog founder), and Holly Branson (Virgin).
“I’ve loved being an early adopter of Tana and I’m a believer in the team’s incredible vision to revolutionize knowledge work for high-speed organizations. They’ve built one of the most impressive AI agents I’ve ever seen and infused it into every part of the product,” said Nnamdi Iregbulem, Partner at Lightspeed Venture Partners.
“Tana is like having a superpower at work. The right information at the right time. It is also the best tool we currently have to prepare our organization for the inevitable: The increasing rate of change, the need for collaboration, and the information flow that comes with the advent of AI,” said Andre Foeken, CTO Nedap. “The age of personal effectiveness is here, and Tana is front and center.”
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