SuperMe Raises $20M to Build an AI-Powered Network of Expert Profiles

SuperMe, a startup building an AI-powered network of expert profiles, has raised $20 million in a funding round led by Kirsten Green at Forerunner, with participation from Greylock Partners. The company aims to make the knowledge and experience of professionals more accessible through AI-powered conversations.

Founded in 2024 by Casey Winters and Ludo Antonov, SuperMe is developing a platform where users can ask questions and receive responses from AI profiles built around the knowledge of real-life experts. Instead of relying on a single chatbot, the platform identifies professionals suited to a particular question and brings their AI profiles together in a group conversation.

The funding will help SuperMe expand its network of experts and users while improving the technology behind its platform.

Turning professional expertise into AI conversations

SuperMe is built around a simple idea: people often seek advice from professionals who have already faced similar challenges. That could mean asking an experienced investor to review a pitch deck, consulting a product leader about a career decision, or learning from someone who has built and scaled a company.

The startup wants to make this kind of expertise easier to access.

Users can enter a question on the SuperMe website, after which the platform identifies relevant experts and creates a group chat featuring their AI profiles. Users can also revisit existing conversations, ask follow-up questions, or interact directly with individual expert profiles.

For example, someone preparing to pitch investors could ask the platform to analyse their pitch deck, identify weaknesses in the story, and highlight questions they should be ready to answer. SuperMe can bring together AI profiles of experienced venture capitalists, including Mercedes Bent, Sarah Tavel and Josh Elman, to respond.

The company is effectively attempting to turn professional knowledge into an accessible network that people can consult on demand.

How SuperMe builds its expert profiles

The platform collects knowledge from public sources such as LinkedIn, YouTube, Substack and personal blogs. It can also draw information from connected applications, including Google Drive, Notion, Gmail and meeting-notetaking tools such as Granola.

According to the company, this information helps build AI profiles that can respond to questions based on the expertise and knowledge of real people.

SuperMe says some of the information it processes may include personal information and trade secrets. However, the company says it takes steps to ensure that such information does not appear in the answers generated by its AI profiles.

The platform also supports the Model Context Protocol (MCP), allowing users to access SuperMe through external AI assistants such as Claude and ChatGPT.

Founders bring experience from major consumer technology companies

SuperMe was founded by Casey Winters and Ludo Antonov in 2024.

Winters has held executive positions at Grubhub, Pinterest and Eventbrite. He has also advised companies such as Airbnb and Canva. Antonov previously served as head of engineering at multiple startups, including Pinterest, Lyft and Whatnot.

The two founders connected while Winters was advising Whatnot. As generative AI tools such as ChatGPT gained popularity, they began exploring how AI could make professional networks and specialised knowledge more accessible.

Their idea is based on the belief that valuable expertise often exists within professional networks but remains difficult for people outside those networks to access.

Funding to expand the expert network and improve AI capabilities

The $20 million round was led by Kirsten Green at Forerunner, with participation from Greylock Partners.

SuperMe plans to use the capital to expand both sides of its network: the number of people asking questions and the number of experts contributing knowledge.

The company is also hiring across its technology and network teams. On the technology side, it is looking to improve its AI models for conversations and the process of matching questions with relevant experts. On the network side, it plans to bring in people who can identify and onboard experts in subject areas that are not yet covered by the platform.

SuperMe currently has approximately 13 employees.

Building a business around shared expertise

The platform is currently free to use, although SuperMe plans to introduce limits on the number of questions users can ask. Users may eventually need to pay once they exceed those limits.

The company is also exploring ways to incentivise experts to contribute more knowledge to the network.

Forerunner's Kirsten Green sees an opportunity to build a platform where AI and human expertise work together. The challenge will be creating a network in which experts have meaningful incentives to share what they know while users receive useful, relevant answers.

For SuperMe, the next stage will involve expanding its expert coverage, improving the quality of AI-generated conversations and developing a sustainable model for participation.

The $20 million investment gives the startup capital to pursue that expansion as it works to make specialised professional knowledge more accessible through AI.