EveryTeam raises $3M to create a living internal company lexicon

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a massive pile of Google Docs or files strewn across dozens of collaboration tools, making it nearly impossible to find
The idea is that employees might not necessarily be going to the same internal portal for that information, or might not be updating that
portal, and the information continues to sit across multiple different buckets within a company
The company came about from former GitHubbers Todd Berman, Connor Sears, and Scott Goldman, which are looking to bring that same level of
collaboration and simplicity to access to internal employee information
The startup said it has raised $3 million in a seed round from Harrison Metal, Upside Partnership, Index Ventures and Greylock
Berman said
things here
A lot of these tools are focused on the creation, where people felt there was a lot of opportunity
But for our potential customers, the issue is that their content is all over the place
But as more and more docs flow in, EveryTeam has to parse through all of those and ensure that the right important ones are surfaced up in
front of everyone, especially as they become more and more important over time
For larger and large companies, that content management can get out of control and devolve into a lot of messages across the organization
Slite, another startup looking to create an intelligent internal notes tool that can serve as a hub of information for employees, also said
it raised $4.4 million earlier this year
Internal note-taking, and that Wiki functionality, is one
EveryTeam decided to work with the idea that content is just going to exist all over the place anyway, and try to fit into the employee
When [some tools] take the Slack model they often get very focused on recency, and that determines an arbiter of value.[You have to think],
what is the desire path for a document that becomes load-bearing in the company
It starts off a little weird, people edit it, it ideates and matures, and it stands the test of time