Almanac
DefunctSan Francisco, US · Founded 2018 · 17 known investors
Almanac is a document collaboration platform that integrates with tools like Jira, GitHub, Linear, Loom, Figma, Google Workspace, and others to embed content and enable document review and commenting workflows.
Also known as Almanac · Almanac Labs Inc · Almanac Labs, Inc.
Founders & leadership
Almanac was founded in 2018 by Adam Nathan and Nathan Taylor Thompson.
Board
Investors · 17
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Also in the syndicate · 9
Reported raises · per SEC filings
Form D private placements$41.5M disclosed across 2 of 5 rounds · 2019–2026
▶$33.9MraisedAug 2021 · 66 investors · Other TechnologyRule 506(b)
- Adam NathanExecutive Officer, Director, Promoter
- Michael MaplesDirector
- Nathan Taylor ThompsonDirector
- Offering amount
- $33.9M
- Amount sold
- $33.9M
- First sale
- Jul 2021
- Incorporated
- Corporation, Delaware, 2018
- Federal exemptions
- 06b
▶$7.6MraisedJan 2020 · 52 investors · OtherRule 506(b)
- Nathan Taylor ThompsonDirector
- Mike Maples, Jr.Director
- Adam NathanExecutive Officer, Director
- Offering amount
- $7.6M
- Amount sold
- $7.6M
- First sale
- Dec 2019
- Incorporated
- Corporation, Delaware, 2018
- Federal exemptions
- 06b
Source: SEC EDGAR Form D. Amounts as filed; amended filings shown once at their latest values.
Company profile
researched Aug 2026Almanac Labs, Inc. (operating as Almanac) was a San Francisco-based software company that described its product as an "operating system for remote work." The platform combined document editing, version control and asynchronous workflows intended to let distributed teams request approvals, collect feedback and revisions, and view usage analytics without meetings or messaging. It was also characterized as a cloud-based knowledge platform on which professionals could create, fork and share open-source work documents, and it published an open-source templates library.
The company was fully distributed, with employees located in multiple countries, and its listed business address was 2261 Market Street #4354, San Francisco, CA 94114. Adam Nathan served as founder and CEO; other named leadership and board figures include N. Taylor Thompson (founder, director), Dan Bartlett (founder) and Eddie Wu (CTO). One third-party profile lists 31 employees and an estimated revenue range of $4M–$10M, and categorizes the company under productivity and collaboration, SaaS/cloud and open source.
In 2024 the company shifted its focus to a new AI product, Blaze, aimed at small teams generating content, and announced that the Almanac platform would be shut down on 2025-01-31, with bulk export made available to users during the transition.
Business model
Almanac operated a cloud-based, subscription-style software platform sold to organizations for document creation, review and asynchronous collaboration; sources do not describe pricing tiers or contract structure.
Sources do not state Almanac's pricing or revenue mechanics; one third-party profile provides only an estimated revenue range of $4M–$10M.
Traction
The company stated that Almanac was used by thousands of customers and many remote-first companies over about three years. A third-party profile lists 31 employees and estimates revenue of $4M–$10M. The successor product Blaze was said to have reached tens of thousands of users within months.
Latest developments
Following the pivot to Blaze, Almanac announced the platform's shutdown effective 2025-01-31 and provided bulk export of documents and files. Note: a separate agriculture-technology company also named Almanac (formerly Semios, Vancouver-based) is unrelated to Almanac Labs and its activity is excluded from this profile.
▸Full profile — market position, technology, go-to-market, geography, history, risks & controversies
Market position
Third-party market intelligence lists Notion and Slite as competitors in the productivity and collaboration category. The company said its product had been adopted by many remote companies and thousands of customers over roughly three years before shutdown.
Positioned around structured, transparent asynchronous collaboration across time zones — combining version control and approval workflows with open-source, forkable documents — rather than real-time meetings and chat.
Technology
Cloud-based document platform combining a document editor, version control, and asynchronous workflow features such as approval requests, feedback and revision collection, and analytics. Documents could be forked and shared in an open-source model, supported by an open-source templates library. The successor product, Blaze, used AI to generate content.
Go-to-market
Adoption was concentrated among remote-first companies, with the open-source templates library and shareable public documents serving as visible entry points; sources give no further detail on sales motion.
Distributed and remote-first organizations and professional teams; named customers include IRL and Remote. The later Blaze product targeted small teams without the resources of larger customers.
Geography
Headquartered in San Francisco, California, with a fully distributed workforce based in multiple locations worldwide.
History
Founded in 2019 according to public profiles (internal records date founding to 2018). The company reported an initial seed round in November 2019 and filed an SEC Form D reporting about $7.57M sold in January 2020, followed by a $9M seed announcement in May 2020. In August 2021 it filed a Form D reporting roughly $33.88M sold, and in September 2021 it announced a $34M Series A led by Tiger Global. In 2024 the team's attention moved to a new AI product, Blaze, and in a public letter the company said it would shut down Almanac on 2025-01-31 because it no longer had capacity to maintain the product's quality.
Risks & controversies
The Almanac product was discontinued: the company stated it lacked the capacity to maintain or improve its quality after resources shifted to Blaze, and users were required to export data before the 2025-01-31 shutdown date.
Compiled by commissioned research from 6 cited public sources — announcements, filings, and press listed under research sources below.
Key figures
latest reportedCompany-reported or press-reported figures, each dated to when it was claimed — not independently audited.
Competitors · 4
by search overlap
Companies competing with Almanac for the same Google search keywords, organic and paid, via search-intersection analysis.
Timeline · 3
launches, deals, and filingsThe company announced it would shut down the Almanac collaboration platform on 2025-01-31, offering bulk export of documents and files and keeping the platform accessible to existing users until that date, while shifting focus to its product Blaze.
The company launched Blaze, an AI-based product aimed at small teams for content generation, which the company said grew to tens of thousands of users within months and absorbed the team's capacity.
Almanac created an open-source templates library for work documents, announced together with its $9M seed funding.
Dated company events from announcements, filings, and press; legal rows summarize public dockets and regulator releases.
Legal entities · 1
corporate structureIn the news
"we're This Close To The iPhone Moment" Sparks Investor Alarm In 2026: Here’s Why - Glass Almanacglassalmanac.com · Jul 2026
Grenoble Startup ENGO Reveals €5.1M Round In 2026 - Why Athletes Stand To Gain - Glass Almanacglassalmanac.com · Jul 2026
Techcrunch: Docs startup Almanac raised $34M from Tigertechcrunch.com · Sep 2021▸Research sources · 6
primary sources listed
- Almanac Raises $34 Million in Series A | The SaaS Newsthesaasnews.com · web
6 public sources were cited for this profile; the first-party ones are listed here.
Frequently asked questions
- What does Almanac do?
- Almanac Labs built a document collaboration platform for remote teams; it shut the Almanac product down on 2025-01-31.
- Who founded Almanac?
- Almanac was founded by Adam Nathan, Nathan Taylor Thompson in 2018.
- Who are Almanac's investors?
- Almanac's investors include General Catalyst, Wing, Earl Grey Capital, Floodgate, Form Capital, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Soma Capital, Tiger Global Management.
- How much funding has Almanac raised?
- Almanac has disclosed $41.5M raised across 2 of its 5 known rounds.
- Where is Almanac headquartered?
- Almanac is headquartered in San Francisco, US.