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Corel Corporation
Corel Corporation is a 40-year-old Ottawa-based software company behind a portfolio of iconic creativity and productivity brands - CorelDRAW, Painter, PaintShop Pro, VideoStudio, WordPerfect, WinZip and MindManager - used by more than 100 million people across 75+ countries. After a stint as KKR-owned 'Alludo,' Corel relaunched in May 2026 as an independent company backed by Vector Capital, with a strategy built on deepening customer experience, embedding AI across its products, and acquiring complementary brands.
Tana
Tana is an AI-native workspace that turns messy notes, meetings and voice memos into structured, queryable knowledge. Its signature feature, Supertags, lets any bullet point become a database record with defined fields, so notes double as a living knowledge graph that AI agents can read, summarize and act on. Founded in 2021 by ex-Googlers and productivity builders and based in Palo Alto with an engineering hub in Oslo, Tana raised a $14M Series A in February 2025 (led by Tola Capital), reaching $25M total funding after emerging from a stealth beta with a 160,000+ person waitlist.
Blockit AI
Blockit AI is a San Francisco startup building an AI scheduling agent that runs your calendar for you. You cc it on an email or ping it in Slack, and it books, reschedules, and negotiates meetings autonomously - learning which meetings are movable and which are not. When two Blockit users need to meet, their agents talk to each other directly, skipping the human back-and-forth. Founded by former Sequoia partner Kais Khimji and calendar veteran John Han, the company raised a $5M seed round led by Sequoia in January 2026 and says it has coordinated more than 100,000 meetings across 200+ companies.
Every Inc.
Every is a New York-based applied AI lab and media company that bundles a daily AI newsletter, a suite of consumer AI software products, and a consulting arm under one subscription. Founded by Dan Shipper and Nathan Baschez in 2020 as a bundle of business newsletters, it has evolved into an AI-native studio that ships products like Cora (email), Spiral (writing), Sparkle (file organization), and Monologue (voice dictation) - largely built with AI-written code by a team of roughly two dozen people.
Maestro Labs
Maestro Labs is a Singapore-based productivity software company that builds AI assistants for the tools people already work in - email, meetings and calendars. Its flagship product, MailMaestro, drafts, summarizes and prioritizes email inside Outlook and Gmail, while TeamsMaestro takes meeting notes in Microsoft Teams and CalMaestro handles scheduling. The company positions itself as the largest independent AI email assistant, competing directly with Microsoft Copilot, and reached that scale partly by acquiring Helsinki-based Flowrite in January 2025.
Time Doctor
Time Doctor is a bootstrapped workforce-analytics and time-tracking platform built for remote, hybrid, and distributed teams. Launched in 2012 by Rob Rawson and Liam Martin, it gives managers real-time visibility into how work happens - tracking time, app and website usage, productivity trends, and workload balance - while pairing the data with AI-supported insights. Used by 280,000+ people across 30+ countries and integrating with 60+ tools, Time Doctor turns activity data into fairer policies, better workload decisions, and burnout prevention.
Highlight
Highlight is a San Francisco AI company building a shared intelligence layer for teams and AI agents. Its cross-platform desktop app captures on-screen context, meetings, messages, and documents, then weaves them into a unified team memory that drafts next steps across tools like Linear, Slack, Notion, and calendars. Spun out of game-clip company Medal in 2024, Highlight has grown past 500,000 users and raised a $40M Series A led by Khosla Ventures in March 2026, when former Discord product VP Sergei Sorokin became CEO.
Motion
Motion is an AI-native work management platform that started as an automatic calendar and task scheduler and has grown into an 'agentic work suite' for small and mid-sized businesses. It bundles projects, tasks, calendar, docs, notes, SOPs, sheets, reports, search and chat into one system, then layers AI 'Employees' on top that actually execute work - drafting proposals, prepping meetings, updating projects and answering clients. Founded in 2019 and backed by Y Combinator, Motion raised $60M in 2025 at a $550M valuation.