YC grad Taskade raises $5M to take on Notion with a more collaborative productivity platform

INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Enterprise software tool startups are so often birthed to either un-bundle or re-bundle what came before them
its take on some of the trendiest startup tools.Taskade appears to be the love child of Notion, Slack and Asana
tasks
seems to take a page or two from Notion, where you can re-visualize databases in tables or Kanban boards with ease
one database each
collaboration is another distinguishing factor of the platform
The team has built a commenting stream that lives inside each project so that a project can have its own ongoing dialog without forcing
users into another Slack channel
You also can fire up video chats inside the project pages and chat through the data without opening another app or sending another
invite.The startups that Taskade is taking on feel ubiquitous
Slack went public this summer and is sitting on a $11.4 billion market cap
Asana has raised north of $210 million from investors
are just six employees at the company right now, organized remotely, but the focus is on using this funding to build out the product over
time rather than pumping cash into sales and marketing, Xie tells me
The company has largely been building up early customers through word-of-mouth and has taken a particular foothold among creative agency
customers.The product has free and paid tiers, priced at $10 per month per user
Taskade is still flirting with how they want the relationship between their free and paid tiers to look
is available on Windows, Mac, Android, iOS and the web.