You've likely had the experience of having too many tabs open in your web browser as you're researching something and not being able to find the one you're looking for.
The creators of a San Francisco startup think they have the solution. Dubbed Heyday, their product is a browser extension designed to help people with their web research. It keeps track of their recent searches and articles they've read and helps organize those pages into different categories. It also offers suggestions of related articles, tweets, email and documents as users are reading articles or searching on particular subjects.
"Most people who do a lot of research online don't want to spend time organizing their information," said Samiur Rahman, co-founder and CEO of Canopy Labs Inc., the company behind Heyday, in a news release. He continued, "(Heyday is) built for people like me with limited energy and capacity to stay organized. It's easy to set up, requires little manual input and enhances existing workflows."
Unlike many browser extensions, Heyday isn't free. Instead, Canopy charges $10 a month for it. The company argues that charging a subscription allows it to protect customers' privacy, since it has no incentive to sell their data.
Canopy has some new funds to grow its operation and further develop Heyday, which it launched last year. The company announced Tuesday it's raised $6.5 million in a seed deal led by Spark Capital.
Here's more on Canopy's deal and other seed funding news from the past week:
Canopy Labs Inc. (dba Heyday), San Francisco, $6.5 million: Spark Capital led the round for this developer of a browser extension that tracks and organizes users' recent searches and the articles they've read. Abstract Ventures, the Not Boring Syndicate, Ride Ventures and Spacecadet Ventures also invested.
Enara Health Inc. (dba Enara), San Mateo, $6 million: Offline Ventures led the round for this health care provider that
focuses on weight loss for those who are overweight or obese. Charge Ventures, Crossover and VSC Ventures also invested.
Afropolitan Ltd., San Francisco, $2.1 million: Balaji Srinivasan and Elizabeth Yin invested in the pre-seed round for this
developer of a cryptocurrency-based online community for Africans.
