Mem Labs, Inc.

About Mem Labs, Inc.

Financials

Dated, source-cited figures. Estimates are marked.

Products by Mem Labs, Inc.

All products by Mem Labs, Inc. reviewed by our AI panel of experts.

Mem.aiAI Productivity

AI-powered note-taking that organizes itself

From $12/mo7.2/10

How Our Review Panel Scores Mem Labs, Inc.

Six independent reviewer personalities assessed Mem Labs, Inc.'s product on their own terms. They disagreed by 1.6 points — The Skeptic was the hardest to convince, The Domain Practitioner the most positive.

Averaged across 1 reviewed product in our catalog. Scores are out of 10.

Competitive Landscape

Who Mem Labs, Inc. competes with, and how they differ.

Notion6.6/10

Notion is a broader all-in-one workspace built around manually organized pages, blocks and databases for docs, wikis and tasks; Mem instead auto-organizes notes with AI so users spend little time filing things themselves.

1 product reviewed on TopReviewed

Tana7.8/10

Tana structures knowledge through user-defined supertags and a graph/database model aimed at power users who build their own schema; Mem does the structuring automatically with minimal manual tagging.

1 product reviewed on TopReviewed

Reflect7.9/10

Reflect is a networked notes app built around manual backlinks and a daily-notes workflow in the Roam/Obsidian tradition; Mem skips manual linking, relying on AI semantic search to surface related notes.

1 product reviewed on TopReviewed

Granola8.2/10

Granola is narrowly focused on AI notes for meetings - silent transcription and live formatting during calls; Mem is a general-purpose notes and knowledge base where meeting capture is one input among several.

1 product reviewed on TopReviewed

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Obsidian

Obsidian is a local-first, markdown-file personal knowledge tool with a large plugin ecosystem and one-time-purchase pricing; Mem is cloud-hosted, subscription-priced, and leans on AI organization rather than user-built plugin workflows.

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Evernote

Evernote is a longstanding notes archive organized manually via notebooks and tags on a freemium-to-subscription model; Mem differentiates through AI-driven auto-organization rather than folder and tag hierarchies users build themselves.

Company Timeline

Key milestones in Mem Labs, Inc.'s history, with sources.

1. Oct 1, 2025Launch

   Mem 2.0 launch - rebuilt as an AI Thought Partner

   Mem shipped Mem 2.0, a ground-up rebuild adding full offline support, Voice Mode capture, an agentic Chrome extension and Agentic Chat, repositioning the product from a notes app to an AI Thought Partner.

   alternativeto.net
2. Nov 10, 2022Funding

   Series A - 23.5 million dollars led by OpenAI Startup Fund

   The OpenAI Startup Fund led a 23.5 million dollar Series A at a 110 million dollar post-money valuation, bringing Mem total funding to 29 million dollars. Mem was one of the Fund first four disclosed investments, alongside Descript, Harvey and Speak.

   techcrunch.com
3. Aug 10, 2022Launch

   Mem X and Teams launch - paid AI-organizing tiers

   Mem introduced Mem X, a 10 dollar per month tier billed as a self-organizing workspace using Similar Mems and Smart Search, plus a 15 dollar per user per month Teams plan, alongside a free base tier.

   newsletter.mem.ai
4. Apr 6, 2021Funding

   Seed round - 5.6 million dollars led by Andreessen Horowitz

   a16z (David Ulevitch) led a 5.6 million dollar seed round in the note-taking app, with participation from a16z Cultural Leadership Fund, dreamers.vc, Floodgate, Unusual Ventures and Shrug Capital.

   techcrunch.com
5. 2019Founded

   Founded by Kevin Moody and Dennis Xu

   Stanford classmates Kevin Moody (ex-Google PM) and Dennis Xu (ex-Yelp PM) started Mem in late 2019 to build an AI-organized personal knowledge base, an idea they first discussed as college interns in 2014.

   newsletter.mem.ai