Quill, cofounded by Michael Daugherty, Yacob Berhane, and Nick Adams, raises $6.5M in Seed Funding led by Basis Set Ventures

Quill, a San Francisco, CA-based privacy-focused desktop application that transcribes, summarizes, and generates actionable notes from meetings directly on devices, raised $6.5M in Seed funding.

​The round was led by Basis Set Ventures, with participation from 500 Global, Naval Ravikant, Morado Ventures, and AME Cloud Ventures.

The company intends to use the funds to expand operations and its development efforts.

Led by Michael Daugherty, Yacob Berhane, and Nick Adams, Quill gives users complete control over where their data lives, how AI inference runs, and how their workflows evolve over time. It provides Quilliam, a sovereign Chief of AI Staff agent for modern professionals. The solutions can connect to other tools via Model Context Protocol (MCP), including Notion, Linear, Affinity, Obsidian, Airtable, Manus, and Gamma.

Quilliam uses context from meetings and user history to proactively suggest and execute workflows:

• After a product meeting, Quilliam can create or modify tickets in Linear, update documentation in Notion, and draft stakeholder updates.
• Before a client call, Quilliam surfaces relevant history and prepares briefing materials.
• Over time, Quilliam will help to customize Quill with automations, templates, and other improvements.

source[FinSMES]