Headquarters
San Francisco, CAFounded
2019CEO / Founder
Adam NathanEmployees
11-50Funding
Series A — $43MProducts
1 product listedAvg. AI Score
7.5/10Website
www.blaze.ai/Profile updated
Almanac Labs Inc was founded in 2019 by Adam Nathan, Malinda Coler Johnson, Dan Bartlett, and Taylor Thompson in San Francisco, California. The company built an asynchronous document collaboration platform combining wiki-style editing with Git-inspired version control, targeting distributed and remote-first teams.
The platform offered document editing, approval workflows (called Layers), version control, and integrations with Jira, GitHub, and Slack. Almanac competed with Confluence, Notion, and Asana, positioning itself as an operating system for remote work. The platform maintained SOC2 and HIPAA compliance and supported SSO and SAML provisioning for enterprise customers.
Almanac raised $9 million in a Seed round in May 2020, led by Floodgate, followed by a $34 million Series A in September 2021 led by Tiger Global with participation from General Catalyst and Floodgate, bringing total funding to $43 million. The company shut down the Almanac platform on January 31, 2025, as the team pivoted to a new AI product called Blaze.
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Who Almanac Labs Inc competes with, and how they differ.
Notion is the dominant flexible workspace unifying docs, wikis, and databases across a far larger addressable market (individual users through enterprise) than Almanac's team-wiki-with-approvals niche, at a lower entry price for small teams.
1 product reviewed on TopReviewedConfluence is the enterprise wiki incumbent tightly bundled with Jira, favored by larger engineering/IT organizations, with heavier admin and permissions controls than Almanac's lighter approval and version-control workflow.
2 products reviewed on TopReviewedCoda blends documents with spreadsheet-style databases, automations, and app-building rather than Almanac's structured version-control-and-approval model, positioning itself as a docs-meets-app-builder tool for cross-functional teams.
1 product reviewed on TopReviewedKey milestones in Almanac Labs Inc's history, with sources.
Blaze grows to ~$7M ARR, hits #1 Product of the Day/Week/Month on Product Hunt
CEO Adam Nathan told Pulse 2.0 the pivot product Blaze had grown ARR from $0 to roughly $7M in 15 months at ~35% month-over-month, on a lean 25-person team, and had reached #1 Product of the Day, Week, and Month on Product Hunt.
pulse2.comAlmanac product shut down; company fully pivots to Blaze
Founder Adam Nathan announced Almanac (the docs/wiki/workflow product) would shut down on January 31, 2025, with users given bulk-export tools, as the company redirected all resources to its new AI marketing product, Blaze.
get.almanac.ioCompany pivots to Blaze, an AI marketing platform for small businesses
Adam Nathan launched Blaze in 2023 (pivoting the company "in mid-2023") as an AI-powered marketing tool for solopreneurs and small businesses, a sharp turn from Almanac's team-docs/workflow product.
pulse2.comSeries A -- $34M led by Tiger Global
Almanac, then marketed as "the operating system for remote work," closed a $34M Series A led by Tiger Global, joined by Floodgate Fund, General Catalyst, and roughly 50 technology-operator angels.
finsmes.comSeed -- $9M led by Floodgate
Almanac raised a $9M seed round led by Floodgate (partner Mike Maples Jr.), with participation from General Catalyst, Inspired Capital, Abstract Capital, and roughly 100 angel investors from companies including Dropbox, Uber, and Stripe.
techstartups.comAlmanac founded by Adam Nathan, Dan Bartlett, and N. Taylor Thompson
Almanac was founded in San Francisco in 2019 by Adam Nathan (CEO), Dan Bartlett, and N. Taylor Thompson as a cloud platform for teams to create, collaborate on, and structure work documents.
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