Thursday, April 23, 2020

Aussie Innovation raises $6.1m seed round from Google, Slack and others




Cofounders of Hugo, Josh Lowy and Darren Chait have just raised a $6.1m seed round led by Google’s AI-focused investment fund, Gradient Ventures. Slack Fund, Founder Collective and EntrĂ©e Capital.


The Pain 


With more and more virtual meetings taking place , insights from meetings stay siloed inside different teams and get lost.

 

There needs to be a methodology of sharing and collating meeting notes across teams within companies, to reduce redundancy and improve information accessibility.


The Painkiller 


Hugo is a productivity app that does this via collaborative note-taking - it’s sort of like a wiki software.( Notion, which recently reached a $2 billion valuation. )


Hugo’s innovation is a platform that integrates deeply within a user’s calendar, recognizing things like past notes from a meeting with a specific person.


The platform uses various software integrations such as Jira bug reports , Zendesk ticket requests, Slack and Google’s G Suite.


Hugo is free for up to 40 users, charges a flat $399 fee up to 100 users and relies on custom pricing beyond that. 


The Customers


Hugo’s customers include teams at Netflix, Dropbox, Shopify and Twitter.

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