The key facts
- SuperMe raised $20 million: the round was led by Kirsten Green of Forerunner, with Greylock Partners participating
- The platform builds group chats from AI expert profiles, with knowledge gathered from public sources and connected apps
- The network is free, but a limit on free questions is planned
SuperMe raises $20 million
SuperMe, a network of AI profiles built on the knowledge of real experts, has announced it raised $20 million. The round was led by Kirsten Green of Forerunner, with participation from Greylock Partners, TechCrunch reports. The money will go toward scaling the network on two fronts: more users with questions and more experts sharing their knowledge.
How the platform works
A user types a question into the chatbot on the SuperMe website, the platform determines which experts are best suited to answer, and creates a group chat with their AI profiles. You can return to a profile and ask follow-up questions, or reach out to a specific expert directly. For example, a pitch deck review can come from the AI profiles of long-time venture investors — Mercedes Bent, Sarah Tavel, and Josh Elman. The founders — Casey Winters, previously a senior executive at Grubhub, Pinterest, and Eventbrite, and Ludo Antonov, former head of engineering at Pinterest, Lyft, and Whatnot — launched the company in 2024. Winters explained the idea this way: Silicon Valley has 'hidden networks' of the best specialists in niche skills, and the goal is to make that network transparent and the key insights in experts' heads more accessible.
Data, monetization, and plans
SuperMe gathers experts' knowledge from public sources — LinkedIn, YouTube, Substack, blogs — and connected apps like Google Drive, Notion, Gmail, and meeting-recording tools such as Granola. The company acknowledges that some data may contain personal information and trade secrets, but says it does not end up in answers. The network is free for now, but the startup plans to limit the number of free questions, after which payment will be required; mechanisms to incentivize experts to share knowledge are also being considered. The platform supports MCP (Model Context Protocol), so it can be accessed from chatbots like Claude and ChatGPT. The company has about 13 employees and is hiring both for the technical team (improving dialogue and expert-matching models) and for sourcing experts in topics not yet covered. Kirsten Green of Forerunner believes SuperMe is well positioned to build a platform where AI collaborates with people, and that a network with benefits for all participants matters at this early stage.
