Kosmik is a French collaborative visual canvas for capturing, connecting, and sharing information. It has raised $3.7 million in seed funding led by the European investor that backed Spotify and Klarna, Creandum (backed atla, Laka, and Unitary). The round saw additional participation from existing investors Alven, Kima Ventures, Betaworks, Amjad Masad (the founder of Replit), Andrew Sutherland (the founder of Quizlet), and prominent business angels.
The Paris-based startup will use this investment to scale its operations, build more integrations, grow its team, and create better tools to think, curate, and collaborate without restraints.
First-of-its-kind visual collaboration platform
Founded by Paul Rony in Paris, Kosmik transforms the way we capture, connect, and share information by reimagining the classic desktop. Departing from the hierarchy of files and folders, Kosmik is a freeform canvas that brings different ways of exploring information such as the browser, PDFs, images, and text, into one place where users can create and visualise connections between data.
Kosmik’s vision is to create a universe where everyone from writers, developers, designers, and researchers can create interactive desktops that can be shared and collaborated on.
With Kosmik, users can collect countless pieces of information, and construct and preserve the connections between them, on a freeform canvas that brings the many ways we discover and access information into one place. With an integrated browser, PDF reader, and text editor built-in, users can simultaneously surf the web, read PDFs, import files, jot down annotations, and pull extracts from web pages and PDFs directly onto the canvas. All this is done from within Kosmik. These pieces of information are linked together to create a visual trail of what you have saved and why.
“With traditional desktops, a file can only live in one folder at a time, even if it might be related to others. If you pull it out, you break its ties. As a result, we lose the full context, can’t easily find what we need, and end up wondering: “why did I save this?” Kosmik was created out of the desire to arrange our knowledge in a way that’s personal, intuitive, and spacial,” said Paul Rony, Kosmik Founder.
“Paul and the Kosmik team have built an exceptional product for knowledge management that reimagines from the ground up many outdated paradigms in our daily workflows, from folders to links. Loved already by its users, we couldn’t be more excited to back Kosmik in the next phase of their journey,” said Hanel Baveja, Principal at Creandum and Kosmik Board Member.
