Soot, founded by Jake Harper, builds a spatial filing system that lets users visualize huge datasets, import and organize different file types, and collaborate with AI. The product is described as a vector-database-style interface that maps pieces of information as points in a multidimensional space. Soot layers creative AI tools to generate new content and supports highly visual interfaces (examples shown with photography, Pokémon, and clothing). The company sees use cases across consumers (visual browsing and shopping) and enterprises (internal organizing for visual products and media archives). Early customers include Jefferson Hack of Dazed Media, who is building an AI-powered search for the magazine and expects “first explorations” in autumn. Financially, Soot has raised a $7.2M seed round and previously took pre-seed funding from Village Global and Compound.

Total raised

$7M

Funding rounds

1

Latest round

Seed

Latest activity

Jun 2024