Grain
Headquarters
San Francisco, CAFounded
2018CEO / Founder
Mike AdamsEmployees
11-50Funding
Series AProducts
1 product listedAvg. AI Score
7.8/10Website
grain.ai
Profile updated
About Grain
Grain is a San Francisco-based software company founded in 2020 by Mike Adams. The company builds an AI-powered meeting recording and note-taking platform designed to help teams capture, organize, and share information from video meetings.
Grain's core product integrates with Zoom, Google Meet, and Microsoft Teams to automatically record meetings, generate transcripts, produce AI-written summaries, and allow users to clip short highlight reels from recordings. The platform is used by sales teams, customer success teams, and remote-first organizations to document conversations and share key moments without distributing full recordings. Features include CRM integrations with tools such as HubSpot and Salesforce, enabling automatic logging of call notes.
Grain has raised seed-stage funding, though the specific amount has not been publicly disclosed. The company operates with a small team and competes in the meeting intelligence category alongside products such as Otter.ai, Fireflies.ai, and Gong.
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Financials
Dated, source-cited figures. Estimates are marked.
Products by Grain
All products by Grain reviewed by our AI panel of experts.
Record, transcribe, and share insights from your meetings
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Six independent reviewer personalities assessed Grain's product on their own terms. They landed within 0.5 points of each other, an unusually strong consensus.
Averaged across 1 reviewed product in our catalog. Scores are out of 10.
Competitive Landscape
Who Grain competes with, and how they differ.
Otter.ai leans toward consumer and individual-productivity transcription with a broad freemium tier, while Grain focuses on go-to-market teams needing CRM-synced clips and coaching workflows.
1 product reviewed on TopReviewed
Granola targets individual note-taking with an on-device, bot-free recorder and has moved upmarket with Spaces and a public API/MCP server, whereas Grain is built around team-shared conversation data as a CRM-connected system of record.
1 product reviewed on TopReviewed
Fireflies.ai competes on breadth of third-party integrations and a searchable transcript library across many meeting platforms, overlapping directly with Grain on transcription and clip-sharing for GTM teams.
1 product reviewed on TopReviewed
Fathom offers a free AI meeting recorder aimed at broad individual and team adoption, undercutting Grain's paid-tier CRM sync and coaching features on price.
1 product reviewed on TopReviewed
tl;dv targets sales and customer-success teams with meeting recording plus direct CRM logging, closely overlapping Grain's core go-to-market use case.
1 product reviewed on TopReviewed
Gong is an enterprise revenue-intelligence platform bundling call analytics, forecasting and coaching at a much higher price point and deal size than Grain's per-seat meeting-notes product.
1 product reviewed on TopReviewedCompany Timeline
Key milestones in Grain's history, with sources.
- Launch
Launched Desktop Capture
Grain launched Desktop Capture, a bot-free meeting recorder that captures audio directly from the user's Mac, on Product Hunt.
producthunt.com - Funding
Series A - $16M led by Tiger Global
Grain raised $16M in Series A funding led by Tiger Global Management, with participation from Zoom, Slack Fund, Unusual Ventures, Freestyle VC, Acrew and Peterson Ventures.
techcrunch.com - Acquisition
Acquired PingPong
Grain acquired PingPong, a YC- and Techstars-backed asynchronous video messaging startup, with terms undisclosed; PingPong founder Jeff Whitlock joined Grain's leadership.
techcrunch.com - Launch
Launched GrainClip
Grain launched GrainClip, letting users clip and share moments from Zoom calls in real time for free, on Product Hunt.
producthunt.com - Launch
Launched on Product Hunt
Grain launched its original product for recording and sharing the best parts of Zoom video calls on Product Hunt.
producthunt.com - Funding
Seed round - $4M
Grain raised a $4M seed round, reported in press coverage of its later Series A.
techfundingnews.com - Founded
Grain founded
Mike Adams and his brother Jake Adams started Grain in 2018 to help teams capture and share important moments from video meetings.
grain.com
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