Extra

building @extradotemail with a tiny team at buildforever // prev CPO @Pinterest

Extra is a consumer email app for Gmail users on iOS and web that turns the personal inbox into a daily summary of what actually requires attention, surfacing things like flight details, package deliveries, school updates, appointments, and birthdays instead of leaving them buried in a chronological feed. The launch matters now because the product is moving out of closed beta into general availability, with new signups onboarded daily off the waitlist. Extra is the first product from BuildForever, a consumer technology company founded by Naveen Gavini, Steven Ramkumar, and Albert Pereta, who collectively spent over a decade at Pinterest . Gavini was previously Pinterest's chief product officer, Pereta its executive creative director, and Ramkumar a distinguished engineer, and the same group previously shipped Shuffles, the Gen Z collage app that briefly topped the U.S. App Store in 2022. Their pitch is that email tools designed before LLMs are a poor fit for personal life, where usage looks less like work back-and-forth and more like passive consumption of important signals mixed with noise. In practice, Extra summarizes daily meetings and key messages, like the delivery status of an Amazon package or a looming deadline to purchase tickets, and groups the rest into smart categories that users can create and edit, such as Kids for parents or Reservations for foodies . Emails surface suggested actions like adding to calendar or going to a ticket page, alongside a chatbot for querying old context . The company tested with about 1,000 users over five months of beta and has raised $9.5 million from Felicis Ventures, Abstract Ventures, A*, and Elad Gil , which gives some runway to take on a category most operators consider a graveyard.

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