SuperMe Raises $20M for AI Profiles of Real Experts
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SuperMe has announced that it is raising $20 million. Kirsten Green at Forerunner is leading the round, and Greylock Partners is taking part. The startup runs a network of AI profiles built from the knowledge of real-life experts.
A user types a question into the SuperMe chatbot. The platform decides which experts are best suited to answer and opens a group chat with their AI profiles. Users can return to a group later, or ask follow-ups. They can also open an expert's profile and question that person directly.
One example is a request to analyze a pitch deck and name its weakest parts. Answers come from AI profiles of longtime venture investors, including Mercedes Bent, Sarah Tavel and Josh Elman.
Where the knowledge comes from
SuperMe scans public sources such as LinkedIn, YouTube, Substack and blogs. It also draws on connected apps, among them Google Drive, Notion, Gmail and meeting note-taking tools like Granola. The company said some of this data will include personal information and trade secrets, and that it makes sure none of it appears in answers.
The service also works with MCP (Model Context Protocol, a standard that lets AI chatbots connect to outside tools and data). Users can therefore ask questions from inside chatbots such as Claude and ChatGPT.
Founders and plans
Casey Winters and Ludo Antonov, who both have experience at large consumer companies, founded SuperMe in 2024. Winters held executive roles at Grubhub, Pinterest and Eventbrite and has advised Airbnb and Canva part-time. Antonov was head of engineering at several startups, including Pinterest, Lyft and Whatnot. They got connected when Winters was advising Whatnot. ChatGPT was becoming popular around the same time, and the two decided to build a network business using AI.
"There are these hidden networks in Silicon Valley of who the best people are for niche skills," Winters said. "Our idea was: Could we make that network of who the absolute best people are more transparent, and could we take all of the key insights that are locked inside their heads and make them more readily available?"
The network is free for now. The startup plans to cap the number of questions, after which users will have to pay. It is also weighing how to give experts an incentive to add more knowledge.
SuperMe has about 13 employees. It is hiring engineers to improve its conversation and expert-matching models, and a person to find experts in subjects the platform does not yet cover.
Green said SuperMe is well positioned to build a platform where AI collaborates with humans. She called it timely to have something like this establishing itself relatively early in the journey, because many lessons will be learned and need to be shared. The balance, she said, is a network with a true sharing component, where there are incentives and benefits for everybody to contribute what they know.
Source: TechCrunch