๐Ÿฆ„ Unicorner Startup of the Week: Heyday
 
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Happy Monday! Today, weโ€™re checking out Heyday, an exciting productivity company building a knowledge base from the important information you encounter daily. Let us know what you think by replying to this email, and if you think it can help you with your workflow in 2023!
 
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Remember everything you learn
 
 
Heyday connects resources like the articles you read, Google Docs, and Twitter into a unified knowledge base. It will then automatically resurface information from its knowledge base thatโ€™s relevant to the task youโ€™re working on, such as when you are searching the web or reading an article.
 
 
๐Ÿ”— Check it out: heyday.xyz
 
 
๐Ÿ’ฐ Business Model
The company offers its service under a SaaS model for $19 per month or $179 per year. A 14-day free trial is also available.
 
๐Ÿ“ˆ Traction and Fundraising
  • Raised $6.5 million seed round from Spark Capital, Spacecadet Ventures, Alumni Ventures, Abstract Ventures, Ride Ventures, Firsthand Alliance, and Correlation Ventures
  • Supports integrations with Gmail, Google Docs, Google Calendar, Slack, Dropbox, Evernote, Pocket, LinkedIn, Twitter, and Notion
 
๐Ÿ‘ซ Founders
  • Samiur Rahman, CEO: Previously CEO and Co-Founder @ Journal, Head of Data Engineering/Machine Learning @ Mattermark, Software Development Engineer @ Amazon, EE BS @ The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art
  • Sam DeBrule, Marketing: Previously Marketing and Co-Founder @ Journal, Demand Generation Marketing Manager @ Mattermark, Co-Founder @ Tempo, Co-Founder @ Ventfull, School @ Brown University
 
๐Ÿ’ผ Opportunities
Want to stay updated on opportunities at Heyday? Fill out this form and weโ€™ll let you know when we find a role that fits your profile.
 
๐Ÿ”ฎ Our Analysis
Recently, there has been a growing interest in personal knowledge management, a complicated way of describing the process of storing and revisiting important information. A number of tools such as note-taking apps have grown in popularity, enabling interesting ways of showing connections between the notes you take. There are two ways Heyday stands out from these tools. First, it allows information to be automatically collected through integrations and your browsing habits, as opposed to collecting information from manual note-taking. Second, it has an AI-enabled mechanism for automatically resurfacing content when you need it, instead of relying on the user to manually look through the knowledge base. This โ€œset it and forget itโ€ approach conveniently improves the experience of working on tasks such as research, studying, and more, and it can only get better through improvements like more integrations. Weโ€™ll be sure to remember to keep up with the company going forward.
 
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