Hoop Raises $5M in Seed Funding

Hoop

Hoop, a NYC-based provider of an AI-powered task management platform, raised $5M in Seed funding.

The round was led by Index Ventures, with participation from Origin Ventures, Divergent Capital, and Chingona Ventures, as well as Wade Foster, CEO of Zapier; Job van der Voort, CEO of Remote; and Andy Dunn, former CEO of Bonobos; Annie Duke, the first woman to win the World Series of Poker; Maria Katris, CEO/Co-founder of BuiltIn; Maggie Adhami-Boynton, CEO/Co-founder of ShopThing; Jay Simons, former President of Atlassian; and Sean Harper, CEO/Co-founder of Kin.

The company intends to use the funds to deepen its AI capabilities, expand its platform integrations, and develop collaborative features.

Led by Stella Garber, Brian Schmidt, and Justin Gallagher, Hoop is an AI-powered task management platform for professionals. Its to-do list updates itself by auto-capturing tasks from tools workers already use such as Slack, Zoom, Google Meet, and email.

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05/06/2024