Taloflow raises $1.3M to automate the soul-sucking software vendor selection process

Taloflow, a Y Combinator W21-batch company, has raised $1.3 million in funding. This investment comes from Wonder Ventures, First Check Ventures, and many notable founders, including the founders of PEER 1, Sacra, and Hootsuite, who share our vision for software vendor selection.

Today also marks the launch of our collaborative AI notebook – two years in the making – which automates the research to evaluate tech vendor capabilities for any use case in dozens of B2B categories. Please support us on ProductHunt.

Our new funding will go towards developing on-demand category generation so users can create tailored vendor and feature matrices in any category. We'll also continue to grow channel partnerships, like our collaboration with SD Times, and enrich our public-facing software, cloud, and dev tools guide, which now has nearly 3,000 entries.

Launching Our Collaborative AI Notebook

Choosing the right cloud providers and software is challenging and risky. Vendors exaggerate, politics can interfere, and critical details get overlooked. Moreover, the number of tools has grown 20-70x in the past decade, depending on the category.

After YC, we realized enterprises needed control over assumptions and transparent and comprehensive insights to guide their decisions.

Taloflow’s new product replaces homegrown selection processes that last weeks or months with collaborative notebooks and AI to generate comprehensive rankings, "cover your assets" (CYA), and requirements tables. Unlike Gartner or G2, which offer mostly generic insights, our platform creates tailored reports for specific use cases. We’re used for hundreds of decisions – including by the Fortune 500 – in dozens of categories.

Please support our launch today on ProductHunt and discover how our collaborative AI notebook can automate the soul-sucking research of software vendor selection.