TownAI exits beta, launching its Townie AI assistant alongside a $55 million Series A round led by a16z

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

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.

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Daria@dasha_tsenter

I got married on Saturday. We launch Town today, four days later.

The only reason I survived: Littlebear, my Townie.

It ran the wedding vendor chaos - florist, tent, caterer, valet - kept me on top of work, and even coordinated logistics directly with my now-husband's assistant. Two AIs talking so the two of us didn't have to.

Building the thing by day, surviving on it by night. Most rewarding week of my life.

Try Town. You won't regret it. https://www.town.com/townie/zn7k6w6cv832dnfdzkq06g0h5n87zf9j

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“paula”@paularambles

this is so cute, we need more whimsical ai

Daria@dasha_tsenter

I got married on Saturday. We launch Town today, four days later.

The only reason I survived: Littlebear, my Townie.

Building the thing by day, surviving on it by night. Most rewarding week of my life.

Try Town. You won't regret it. https://www.town.com/townie/zn7k6w6cv832dnfdzkq06g0h5n87zf9j

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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)

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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Boris Power@BorisMPower

A very inspiring vision for the future where you can focus on spending time on things that are meaningful and most of the organizational overhead can be offloaded to AI helpers!

Daria@dasha_tsenter

I got married on Saturday. We launch Town today, four days later.

The only reason I survived: Littlebear, my Townie.

Building the thing by day, surviving on it by night. Most rewarding week of my life.

Try Town. You won't regret it. https://www.town.com/townie/zn7k6w6cv832dnfdzkq06g0h5n87zf9j

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Đoc@ponzibaron

yes! this is what I try to explain to people who are "scared" of AI. already, for me - a physician, father, husband, and nocturnal shitposter and meme artist - it has dramatically offloaded the mundane tasks that were hampering my creativity and time with the important things

that, to me, is what AI is and should be used for as of now

helpful goblins to give us time to breathe and create

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