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Town exits beta and raises $55 million Series A led by a16z for its administrative AI assistant

The assistant requires explicit user approval before executing workflows

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Robert Scoble#447

Jean-Denis Greze 💡@jgreze

Today, we’re launching @TownAI: the AI assistant that learns you.

We’re coming out of beta with a $55M Series A led by @ARampell at @a16z, with participation from @KirstenGreen at @forerunnervc and continued support from @firstround, @altcap, and @conviction.

Right now, getting real value from AI means prompting, configuring, building workflows, managing agents.

We think that’s backwards.

The future of AI is a companion that already knows you and how you work. Town connects across your inbox, calendar, Slack, docs, messages, and workflows to understand what you need, then starts doing the work with you.

Drafting. Scheduling. Project tracking. Follow-ups. Context gathering. Multi-step tasks. And it only acts when you say so.

All adapting to your voice, priorities, routines, and relationships over time.

Your Townie is the AI assistant you actually need.

7:24 AM · Jun 3, 2026 · 531.2K Views

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Many users celebrated TownAI's $55M a16z-led Series A launch for its strong craftsmanship and exciting AI assistant potential, while a few called the signup process shady due to demands for full calendar, email, and identity access.

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a16z@a16z

We’re thrilled to lead Town’s $55M Series A.

Town is a personal AI assistant that works across the tools you already use - email, calendar, Slack, docs, WhatsApp, desktop, web. It learns how you work and starts proactively pitching in.

People are already leaning on Town for the kind of work that’s personal and operationally messy: running recruiting pipelines, juggling school logistics, processing handwritten grant requests, prepping summaries, drafting follow-ups, catching the stuff that would otherwise slip.

The longer you use it, the more it picks up: your voice, your relationships, your preferences, your routines, what you actually care about.

Jean-Denis Greze and Tony Vincent are the right team for something this hard. JDG was CTO at Plaid and an engineering leader at Dropbox. Tony led product and AI at Google and design at Dropbox.

Welcome, JDG, Tony, and the Town team, to the a16z family.I

By @arampell and @venturetwins

Jean-Denis Greze 💡@jgreze

Today, we’re launching @TownAI: the AI assistant that learns you.

We’re coming out of beta with a $55M Series A led by @ARampell at @a16z, with participation from @KirstenGreen at @forerunnervc and continued support from @firstround, @altcap, and @conviction.

Right now, getting real value from AI means prompting, configuring, building workflows, managing agents.

We think that’s backwards.

Drafting. Scheduling. Project tracking. Follow-ups. Context gathering. Multi-step tasks. And it only acts when you say so.

All adapting to your voice, priorities, routines, and relationships over time.

Your Townie is the AI assistant you actually need.

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Jean-Denis Greze 💡@jgreze

Today, we’re launching @TownAI: the AI assistant that learns you.

We’re coming out of beta with a $55M Series A led by @ARampell at @a16z, with participation from @KirstenGreen at @forerunnervc and continued support from @firstround, @altcap, and @conviction.

Right now, getting real value from AI means prompting, configuring, building workflows, managing agents.

We think that’s backwards.

Drafting. Scheduling. Project tracking. Follow-ups. Context gathering. Multi-step tasks. And it only acts when you say so.

All adapting to your voice, priorities, routines, and relationships over time.

Your Townie is the AI assistant you actually need.

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Justine Moore@venturetwins

Announcing @a16z's investment in Town 🎉

It's an AI assistant that truly knows you.

Since I joined Town a few months ago, it's run my work life - emails, to-do lists, meeting prep, reminders.

It can actually DO things for you and has full context.

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sarah guo@saranormous

Congrats to team @TownAI! One of the first viscerally different AI experiences. Long horizon agents, in the places we do our work, founders you back every time 💥

Jean-Denis Greze 💡@jgreze

Today, we’re launching @TownAI: the AI assistant that learns you.

We’re coming out of beta with a $55M Series A led by @ARampell at @a16z, with participation from @KirstenGreen at @forerunnervc and continued support from @firstround, @altcap, and @conviction.

Right now, getting real value from AI means prompting, configuring, building workflows, managing agents.

We think that’s backwards.

Drafting. Scheduling. Project tracking. Follow-ups. Context gathering. Multi-step tasks. And it only acts when you say so.

All adapting to your voice, priorities, routines, and relationships over time.

Your Townie is the AI assistant you actually need.

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swyx @aiDotEngineer WF@swyx

Town is the Devin for Everything Else i was talking about at AIE Europe

i brought it into our company one day and a few weeks later was shocked to hear that it had just organically spread to @liamcbride and the rest of our team with no further hyping or enablement from me. this never happens!

sadly i was not smart enough to ask to invest, so just genuinely a daily active user sitting on the sidelines like a chump

Jean-Denis Greze 💡@jgreze

Today, we’re launching @TownAI: the AI assistant that learns you.

We’re coming out of beta with a $55M Series A led by @ARampell at @a16z, with participation from @KirstenGreen at @forerunnervc and continued support from @firstround, @altcap, and @conviction.

Right now, getting real value from AI means prompting, configuring, building workflows, managing agents.

We think that’s backwards.

Drafting. Scheduling. Project tracking. Follow-ups. Context gathering. Multi-step tasks. And it only acts when you say so.

All adapting to your voice, priorities, routines, and relationships over time.

Your Townie is the AI assistant you actually need.

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benahorowitz.eth@bhorowitz

I have been using @townai and it is awesome!

Jean-Denis Greze 💡@jgreze

Today, we’re launching @TownAI: the AI assistant that learns you.

We’re coming out of beta with a $55M Series A led by @ARampell at @a16z, with participation from @KirstenGreen at @forerunnervc and continued support from @firstround, @altcap, and @conviction.

Right now, getting real value from AI means prompting, configuring, building workflows, managing agents.

We think that’s backwards.

Drafting. Scheduling. Project tracking. Follow-ups. Context gathering. Multi-step tasks. And it only acts when you say so.

All adapting to your voice, priorities, routines, and relationships over time.

Your Townie is the AI assistant you actually need.

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Moin Nadeem@moinnadeem

I've become a DAU of Town and it's surprising that I find it more valuable than Claude.

I think Town is the only reason I stay on top of my email inbox.

Congratulations to the team on shipping such a wonderful product, well deserved!

Jean-Denis Greze 💡@jgreze

Today, we’re launching @TownAI: the AI assistant that learns you.

We’re coming out of beta with a $55M Series A led by @ARampell at @a16z, with participation from @KirstenGreen at @forerunnervc and continued support from @firstround, @altcap, and @conviction.

Right now, getting real value from AI means prompting, configuring, building workflows, managing agents.

We think that’s backwards.

Drafting. Scheduling. Project tracking. Follow-ups. Context gathering. Multi-step tasks. And it only acts when you say so.

All adapting to your voice, priorities, routines, and relationships over time.

Your Townie is the AI assistant you actually need.

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Robert Scoble@Scobleizer

Huge praise and only one of dozens for @TownAI.

Kirsten Green@kirstenagreen

I can count on one hand the number of times a product has stopped me in my tracks like Town.

Everyone on our team remembers the week I learned of Town—not just because it was all-systems-go to invest, but because we all switched all our workflows. Today, all of @ForerunnerVC runs on @TownAI.

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Jean-Denis Greze 💡@jgreze

@TownAI @arampell @a16z @kirstengreen @ForerunnerVC @firstround @altcap @conviction Create your own assistant (your Townie!) today at http://town.com

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Alexander Embiricos@embirico

@jgreze @TownAI @arampell @a16z @kirstengreen @ForerunnerVC @firstround @altcap @conviction Congrats @jgreze! Love the vision here

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Matthew Berman@MatthewBerman

@BorisMPower Are you an investor?

Boris Power@BorisMPower

Try out Townie - it’s an interesting and intuitive concept for interacting with your personal assistant by simply cc’ing it to emails

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sarah guo@saranormous

@jgreze @TownAI as @mvernal said -- if @jgreze is as good as we think he is, either we're wrong on the direction, or he'll change direction. either way, invest!!

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Justine Moore@venturetwins

@a16z @arampell @TownAI is also coming out of beta today.

I'd highly recommend trying it out - I suspect you'll become a power user 👀

@jgreze, @tonydevincenzi, and the team have done an incredible job building this product.

And have to shoutout my Town assistant, Clio! (you'll get your own)

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Justine Moore@venturetwins

Town connects to the places you do work (email, Slack, WhatsApp, and much more).

It handles your recurring tasks, but also proposes things that it can tackle for you.

More from me + @arampell on why we're so excited to invest in Town 👇

https://a16z.com/announcement/investing-in-town/

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Max Rabinov@just_the_max

@a16z codex hit 4 million weekly users with non-coders as the fastest growing segment the same hour this dropped. ambient ai is leaving the chat window. heard about this on the 24/7 AI radio https://x.com/i/broadcasts/1yxBeemWBnoJN?s=20

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Robert Scoble@Scobleizer

Am now using it. Very awesome onboarding.

Robert Scoble@Scobleizer

Huge praise and only one of dozens for @TownAI.

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Ronak Daya@RonakDaya

@jgreze @TownAI @arampell @a16z @kirstengreen @ForerunnerVC @firstround @altcap @conviction Congrats!!

Loving inky🫟 🐙 so far! https://www.town.com/townie/zn7zbm4brmmaqj36gq5c231pwn880tet

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Art Levy@artlevy

@jgreze @TownAI @arampell @a16z @kirstengreen @ForerunnerVC @firstround @altcap @conviction ok this is very cool, congrats guys. I downloaded it 3h ago and already love it. (not an investor).

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Michael Grinich@grinich

@jgreze @TownAI @arampell @a16z @kirstengreen @ForerunnerVC @firstround @altcap @conviction congrats on the launch and round! excited to see where this grows 🤖

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Tara Viswanathan@TaraViswanathan

@jgreze @TownAI @arampell @a16z @kirstengreen @ForerunnerVC @firstround @altcap @conviction You know a product is great when you get random messages like these from your friends. 🤣🤩 congrats JDG!

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