# Ideaflow

> Ideaflow is a Palo Alto-based AI company building an 'intelligence amplification' layer for knowledge work. Its flagship product is a notebook that augments your thinking as you type, letting people capture and stitch together fragments of information. The company has since expanded into team knowledge tools - Base, which surfaces context from Slack, meetings, and documents, and meeting intelligence - aiming to become an organization's collective memory. Founded around 2015 by MIT Media Lab designer Jacob Cole and Etherpad/Meteor veteran David Greenspan, it has raised roughly $11M in seed funding from First Round Capital, 8VC, StartX, Naval Ravikant, and Tim Draper.

- **Founded:** 2015
- **Headquarters:** Palo Alto, California, United States
- **Founders:** Jacob Cole (CEO & Co-Founder), David Greenspan (Co-Founder)
- **Team size:** ~14 employees
- **Products:** Ideaflow Notes, Base, Meetings, Agent-First Web
- **Notable:** Featured as a Product Hunt Weekly Highlight, Raised ~$11M from top-tier investors including First Round Capital, 8VC, Naval Ravikant and Tim Draper, Co-founder David Greenspan previously created Etherpad (whose tech influenced Google Docs) and worked on Meteor.js

## Products & services

- **Ideaflow Notes** — A notebook that augments your intelligence as you type, letting you capture and stitch together fragments of information without rigid structure.
- **Base** — Team knowledge management that captures context from Slack, meetings, and documents, then surfaces it exactly when it is needed.
- **Meetings** — A meeting intelligence tool that captures and organizes discussion so knowledge is not lost after the call ends.
- **Agent-First Web** — A connected intelligence platform exploring how humans and AI agents can work together over shared knowledge.

## Achievements

- Featured as a Product Hunt Weekly Highlight
- Raised ~$11M from top-tier investors including First Round Capital, 8VC, Naval Ravikant and Tim Draper
- Co-founder David Greenspan previously created Etherpad (whose tech influenced Google Docs) and worked on Meteor.js
- Endorsed by advisors including former Reddit CTO Marty Weiner and Microsoft's John Devadoss

## Latest updates

- **2025-10** — Coverage noted Ideaflow deepening its AI capabilities across insight generation and team collaboration features.
- **2020-11** — Closed seed funding bringing total raised to roughly $11M.

## Links

- Website: https://ideaflow.io
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/company/ideaflow-inc
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/IdeaFlowGraphs
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4feZo9PqTlo
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ideaflowapp/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ideaflowgraphs/

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Last updated: 2026-08-05