SAN FRANCISCO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–June 28, 2022–
Apogeean AI-powered research assistant, today announced $6.5 million in seed funding led by Spark Capital with the participation of Abstract companiesPacky McCormick’s Syndicate not boring, First-hand companies, Correlation companiesRide Ventures, Spacecadet Ventures, and several angel investors. Heyday will use the funding to grow the team and develop the product. Spark Capital Partner, Kevin Thau, will join the Board of Directors.
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Co-founders Sam DeBrule and Samiur Rahman (Photo: Business Wire)
According a McKinsey study, knowledge workers spend almost 19% of their working hours trying to find the information needed to complete tasks. Knowledge management tools help professionals organize their information, but organizing information takes time away from core tasks.
“Most people who do a lot of research online don’t want to waste time organizing their information. They just want to be smarter,” said Samiur Rahman, co-founder and CEO of Heyday. “Heyday is not designed for power users of knowledge management tools. It’s designed for people, like me, who have limited energy and ability to stay organized. It’s easy to set up, requires little manual input, and enhances existing workflows. »
Co-founders Samiur Rahman and Sam De Brule created Heyday in 2021 to help professionals manage the high volume of information on the Internet with less effort. Content marketers, startup founders, research analysts, investors, and other research professionals are now among the company’s initial customer base.
Heyday helps people learn faster and save time by:
- Displaying content from past searches alongside relevant Google search results to improve recall and save them wasting time searching for information.
- Overlay the articles they read with relevant Tweets, articles and documents to fill gaps in their research and help them understand new topics more quickly.
- Organize a self-populating knowledge base with content related to the topics they spent the most time researching to improve retention.
“We all need tools that help us make the most of our time,” said Kevin Thau, general partner at Spark Capital. “We couldn’t be more excited to be part of Heyday’s mission to create an AI-powered search assistant that works behind the scenes to make people more informed.”
The Heyday browser extension can be installed on https://heyday.xyz/. People add the extension to their browser and integrate their apps to get started. Heyday then pulls files, links and conversations from Google Docs, Dropbox, Slack and Twitter and improves existing workflows – resurfacing content that would otherwise be forgotten alongside Google searches, overlaying the pages they consult with relevant articles and tweets, and automatically curating a knowledge base on the topics they spend the most time reading. Heyday is available on Chrome, Firefox, Brave, Edge and Vivaldi browsers.
About the apogee
Heyday is an AI-powered search assistant that makes you feel smarter by automatically resurfacing content you’ve overlooked. Heyday’s browser extension won Product Hunt Product #1 of April 2022 and has been recognized by Fast Company as one of the ” Best New Productivity Apps ” in February 2022. Heyday extensions are available for Chrome, Firefox, Brave, Edge and Vivaldi. To add Heyday to your browser, please visit: https://heyday.xyz/
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