Almanac Labs

About Almanac Labs

Almanac Labs Inc., doing business as Almanac, was established as a technology company focused on building collaborative infrastructure for the digital economy. Founded in 2019 by Adam Nathan, Malinda Coler Johnson, Dan Bartlett, and Taylor Thompson, the company is headquartered in San Francisco and operates on a fully distributed basis with employees worldwide. CEO Adam Nathan, who previously worked in the White House, started Almanac with the conviction that the shift to distributed work required better tooling for structured and transparent collaboration across different time zones.

The company developed a cloud-based platform designed as an operating system for remote work. The core of its offering was a collaborative document editor that included built-in workflows for approvals, feedback, and version control, aiming to reduce the reliance on meetings and streamline asynchronous communication. The platform allowed teams to create, organize, and track documents, manage projects, and build a centralized knowledge base. Almanac's business model targeted remote, hybrid, and distributed teams of all sizes. The company secured significant venture capital, raising a total of $50.6 million over three rounds, including a $34 million Series A in 2021 led by Tiger Global, with participation from Floodgate and General Catalyst.

Despite adoption by thousands of customers, the growth in the remote work market was slower than anticipated for a venture-backed company. This led the team to pivot. In 2023, observing the rapid advancements in artificial intelligence, the company developed a new product called Blaze, an AI tool designed to help small teams generate content. The quick success of Blaze, which attracted tens of thousands of users within months, prompted a strategic shift. Consequently, Almanac announced it would shut down its original collaboration platform on January 31, 2025, to focus the team's resources entirely on developing Blaze. The same team that built Almanac is now behind Blaze, leveraging their experience to serve a different customer base under a new brand.