Town AI

Co-Founder and CEO at https://t.co/sff289lxk0 (@TownAI). Ex-CTO @Plaid. Investor at @ASDFVentures. Everything is satire.

Town is launching out of beta with a personalized AI assistant, branded as a "Townie," that learns how an individual already works rather than asking them to learn a new tool. The product is pitched as proactive and context-aware, helping across the apps a user already uses , drafting emails in the user's voice, managing to-do lists, calendar, docs, and messages, and taking on recurring tasks without being prompted. Town is available on iOS, desktop, WhatsApp, Telegram, Slack, and web , which positions it for daily use by founders, operators, and knowledge workers who live across multiple surfaces. The launch is anchored by a meaningful funding round. Town raised a $55 million Series A led by Andreessen Horowitz, with participation from Forerunner Ventures, First Round, Alt Capital, and Conviction. The company was founded in late 2024 by Jean-Denis Gréze, former CTO of Plaid, and Tony Vincent, former director of applied AI at Google , a pairing that explains the product's emphasis on both consumer-grade product polish and the infrastructure required to personalize an assistant per user. For investors and operators evaluating the crowded personal-assistant space, Town's distinguishing bet is the direction of adaptation. The tool does the adapting and learning rather than the person, and the round is framed as a bet that Town is on the right track rather than proof the problem is solved. The mascots Ivy and Proxy, introduced in the launch video, signal a deliberately consumer-friendly brand for a category that has so far skewed toward power users.

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