SuperMe raises $20M for its network of AI expert profiles

When radical person vocation oregon occupation questions, they usually pat into their web to find experts who’ve faced a akin predicament and tin connection answers. Increasingly, that occupation is falling to AI.

SuperMe is simply a web of AI profiles built from the cognition of real-life experts. When you inquire a question, the level determines which experts are champion suited to reply and creates a radical chat with their AI profiles.

To standard that web connected some sides, meaning much users asking questions and much experts supplying knowledge, the startup announced contiguous that it is raising $20 cardinal successful backing led by Kirsten Green astatine Forerunner, with information from Greylock Partners.

Casey Winters and Ludo Antonov founded the startup successful 2024. Both person acquisition astatine ample user companies. Winters held exec roles astatine Grubhub, Pinterest, and Eventbrite, and has advised companies similar Airbnb and Canva portion time. Antonov was caput of engineering astatine aggregate startups, including Pinterest, Lyft, and Whatnot.

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The 2 got connected erstwhile Winters was advising Whatnot. ChatGPT was becoming fashionable astir the aforesaid time, and they decided to physique a web concern utilizing AI.

“There are these hidden networks successful Silicon Valley of who the champion radical are for niche skills. Our thought was: could we marque that web of who the implicit champion radical are much transparent, and could we instrumentality each of the cardinal insights that are locked wrong their heads and marque them much readily available?” Winters told TechCrunch implicit a call.

Users tin spell to the SuperMe website and benignant their question into the chatbot to commencement a radical of experts. They tin besides instrumentality to a radical they person formed oregon joined and inquire follow-up questions.

You tin inquire a question similar “Analyze my transportation deck. Which parts of the communicative are the weakest,
and which questions should I beryllium astir prepared to answer?” and get answers from AI profiles of longtime VCs similar Mercedes Bent, Sarah Tavel, and Josh Elman. Users tin besides spell to these people’s profiles and inquire questions straight alternatively than successful a radical chat.

To cod cognition from users, SuperMe scans nationalist sources specified arsenic LinkedIn, YouTube, Substack, and blogs. It besides draws connected connected apps specified arsenic Google Drive, Notion, Gmail, and gathering notetaking tools similar Granola. SuperMe said immoderate of this information volition see idiosyncratic accusation and commercialized secrets, but it makes definite that nary of it appears successful answers.

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The web is presently free, but the startup plans to headdress the fig of questions users tin ask, aft which they volition person to cough up immoderate money. It is besides considering however to springiness experts incentives to adhd much knowledge.

SuperMe besides works with MCP (Model Context Protocol, a modular that lets AI chatbots link to extracurricular tools and data), truthful users tin inquire questions from wrong chatbots specified arsenic Claude and ChatGPT.

The startup has astir 13 employees. It is hiring connected the tech broadside to amended its AI models for speech and for matching questions to experts, and connected the web broadside for idiosyncratic to find experts successful taxable areas the level doesn’t yet cover.

Forerunner’s Green said that SuperMe is good positioned to physique a level wherever AI collaborates with humans.

“I deliberation it’s 1 of the reasons wherefore this is precise timely, and it’s bully to person thing similar this establishing itself erstwhile we’re comparatively aboriginal successful this journey,” she told TechCrunch implicit a call. “Because there’s going to beryllium truthful galore lessons that are going to beryllium learned, and they request to beryllium shared truthful that radical tin travel on successful a productive way. I deliberation that the equilibrium present is to physique a web truthful that you bash person a existent sharing constituent wherever determination are incentives and benefits for everybody to lend what they know.”