Bot Food raises $1.07M to let AI users own their data
What's the deal? Bot Food CorporationDealroom has a profile for this one. Try Dealroom →, a Toronto startup founded by the team behind Wysdom, has raised US$1.1M (roughly $1.07 million) in pre-seed funding to build what it calls "one personal context library that works across every AI product." Toronto's GreenSky VenturesDealroom has a profile for this one. Try Dealroom → led the all-equity, all-primary round, which closed in October.
What's the endgame? Bot Food wants to give individuals control and ownership over the personal context they share with AI systems — and when they share it. It launched a beta of its application, Mémoire, alongside the raise.
Why now? Co-founder and chief executive officer Ian Collins argues that as AI systems grow more capable, sharing detailed personal context will become a prerequisite for getting the most from them. "A lot of people are resisting [AI]," he said, "but we're all going to give in eventually; the productivity is just going to be too great."
Collins founded Wysdom in 2012 with Jeff Brunet and worked alongside Nitin Singhal; the startup built an AI evaluation platform for customer service chatbots before selling to Minneapolis-based CalabrioDealroom has a profile for this one. Try Dealroom → in 2024. At Wysdom, the team learned how central context is to AI performance. "As we measured and evaluated all these bots and their performance, it was almost always a context problem," Collins said.
Collins and Singhal have reunited at Bot Food, and Brunet — now managing partner at GreenSky — has joined the board. "We believe a universal personal context layer could become a critical piece of infrastructure for the entire AI ecosystem," Brunet said. The round brings Bot Food's total funding to $3 million; Collins did not disclose a valuation.
What could go wrong? Bot Food is entering a category major assistants are already moving into. Anthropic now lets Claude users view, edit, and delete saved memories, while startups such as VanaDealroom has a profile for this one. Try Dealroom → and MemVerge pitch portable personal context. That creates an opening for Mémoire but also means it will compete with features bundled into far larger services.
The signal: The raise sits in the smaller tier of its category — around the 26th percentile by amount — but marks an early bet on user-owned AI memory as a potential infrastructure layer. As assistants race to lock in users by capturing their data, Bot Food is wagering that some of that value will shift back to the individuals who generate it.
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