SuperMe Secures $20 Million Funding to Expand AI Expert Network

SuperMe announced a $20 million round led by Kirsten Green at Forerunner, aiming to grow its AI-driven platform that matches users with expert profiles.

NationPulse Desk

Oct 29, 2026 · 9:19 PM 3 min read

Key takeaways

SuperMe raised $20 million in a funding round led by Kirsten Green at Forerunner with Greylock Partners participating.

The startup was founded in 2024 by Casey Winters and Ludo Antonov, who have backgrounds at Grubhub, Pinterest, Eventbrite, Lyft and Whatnot.

SuperMe's platform creates AI-driven group chats that match user questions with profiles of real experts such as venture capitalists.

The service gathers data from public sources and tools like LinkedIn, YouTube, Google Drive and Notion, ensuring personal information does not appear in answers.

The company, with about 13 employees, plans to introduce a paid limit on questions and is hiring to improve AI models and expand expert coverage.

SuperMe, a platform that links users to AI versions of real-world experts, disclosed today that it has closed a $20 million financing round. The investment was led by Kirsten Green of Forerunner with participation from Greylock Partners.

Founded in 2024 by Casey Winters and Ludo Antonov, the startup draws on the founders' backgrounds at companies such as Grubhub, Pinterest, Eventbrite, Lyft and Whatnot. Winters previously held executive roles at Grubhub, Pinterest and Eventbrite and has advised Airbnb and Canva part-time, while Antonov served as head of engineering at several startups.

Winters explained to TechCrunch, "There are these hidden networks in Silicon Valley of who the best people are for niche skills. Our idea was: could we make that network of who the absolute best people are more transparent, and could we take all of the key insights that are locked inside their heads and make them more readily available?"

Users access SuperMe via its website, type a question into a chatbot and are placed into a group chat with AI profiles of relevant experts. They can also revisit existing groups for follow-up queries. Example queries include "Analyze my pitch deck. Which parts of the story are the weakest, and which questions should I be most prepared to answer?" which would draw responses from AI versions of VCs such as Mercedes Bent, Sarah Tavel and Josh Elman.

The service aggregates publicly available data from LinkedIn, YouTube, Substack and blogs, as well as information from connected tools like Google Drive, Notion, Gmail and Granola. SuperMe noted that while some collected material may contain personal data or trade secrets, none of that appears in the answers provided.

Currently free, the platform intends to limit the number of questions per user before introducing a paid tier, and is exploring ways to reward experts for contributing additional knowledge.

SuperMe also integrates with the Model Context Protocol (MCP), enabling users to pose questions through external chatbots such as Claude and ChatGPT.

The company employs about 13 people and is hiring technical staff to refine its conversational AI and matching algorithms, as well as network staff to recruit experts in new subject areas.

Forerunner's Green said SuperMe is well placed to create a space where AI works alongside humans. She added, "I think it's one of the reasons why this is very timely, and it's good to have something like this establishing itself when we're relatively early in this journey... because there's going to be so many lessons that are going to be learned, and they need to be shared so that people can come along in a productive way. I think that the balance here is to build a network so that you do have a true sharing component where there are incentives and benefits for everybody to contribute what they know."

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