SuperMe, a startup that operates a network of AI profiles built from the knowledge of real-life experts, said it has raised $20 million in a funding round led by Kirsten Green at Forerunner, with Greylock Partners participating. The company said the capital will support growth on both sides of its network: more users asking questions and more experts contributing knowledge.
The platform works by having a user type a question into a chatbot on the SuperMe website. SuperMe then determines which experts are best suited to answer and assembles a group chat of their AI profiles. Users can return to a group they have formed or joined to ask follow-up questions, and they can also visit individual expert profiles to ask questions directly rather than through a group chat. The company cited an example question about analyzing a pitch deck to identify weak parts of the story, answered by AI profiles of longtime venture capitalists including Mercedes Bent, Sarah Tavel and Josh Elman.
SuperMe was founded in 2024 by Casey Winters and Ludo Antonov, both of whom have experience at large consumer companies. Winters held executive roles at Grubhub, Pinterest and Eventbrite and has advised companies such as Airbnb and Canva on a part-time basis. Antonov was head of engineering at multiple startups, including Pinterest, Lyft and Whatnot. The two connected when Winters was advising Whatnot, around the time ChatGPT was becoming popular, and decided to build a network business using AI. Winters described the idea as making Silicon Valley's informal networks of who the best people are for niche skills more transparent and making the key insights locked inside their heads more readily available.
To gather knowledge, SuperMe scans public sources such as LinkedIn, YouTube, Substack and blogs. It also draws on connected apps including Google Drive, Notion and Gmail, as well as meeting notetaking tools such as Granola. SuperMe said some of that data will include personal information and trade secrets, but that it ensures none of it appears in answers.
The network is currently free, though the startup plans to cap the number of questions users can ask, after which they would have to pay. SuperMe is also considering how to give experts incentives to add more knowledge. The platform works with MCP, a standard that lets AI chatbots connect to outside tools and data, so users can ask questions from within chatbots such as Claude and ChatGPT.
SuperMe has about 13 employees. It is hiring on the technology side to improve its AI models for conversation and for matching questions to experts, and on the network side for someone to find experts in subject areas the platform does not yet cover.
Green said SuperMe is well positioned to build a platform where AI collaborates with humans. She said it is timely to have something like this establishing itself while the field is relatively early, because many lessons will be learned and need to be shared. She said the balance is to build a network with a true sharing component, where there are incentives and benefits for everybody to contribute what they know.
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