Journal 融资 150 万美元，让邮件、Slack 和文档搜索像谷歌搜索网页一样简单

做的是什么生意

Journal is a machine-learning and natural-language-processing platform that searches across a person's web services and tools; it asks for view access to connected apps, encrypts what it indexes, and launched as a Mac app, web app and Chrome extension.

启动资金：A $1.5M seed round led by Social Capital.

起因

Co-founder and CEO Samiur Rahman set out to help people use information effectively by leveraging every place they already keep it, with a long-term vision of tools that act as a second brain. Search across Slack, email, Google Docs and other web apps was the wedge.

经过

Journal raised the $1.5M seed led by Social Capital roughly a year before announcing it, ran a beta community of users, and on October 16, 2018 publicly launched its Mac app, web app and Chrome extension. Rahman ruled out advertising because of the incentives it creates around deeply private data, pointing instead to companies that would pay for teams; TechCrunch's security editor called the split-key design sound while noting that general trust remained the open question.

可借鉴之处

将信任作为产品出售：索引私人数据的服务生死取决于其隐私架构，因此 Journal 的零知识分离密钥设计是卖点，而非附注。