Berlin-based Tyles has just raised €1.4 million for its knowledge engine helping users harness information more efficiently and effectively. The startup’s platform aims to help us better segment and digest information enabling ideas to scale better.
They say that knowledge is power and ideas are worth gold. But in our modern world, we are constantly bombarded with information in a way that is overwhelming and hard to digest. Surfing through the internet is an amazing resource to acquire more knowledge, and anyone who has done any research project will know that.
But, they’ll also know how messy it can get. And having one hundred tabs open on the computer can feel like having one hundred tabs open in your brain – which isn’t a comfortable feeling at all. Nor is it conducive to building up knowledge.
Developed by two high school friends, Tyles is a berlin-based startup aiming to help us better build knowledge and harness it. The startup has now raised its first funding round to scale the product.
Naval Ravikant, Co-Founder of AngelList “The wealthiest places in the world now are the ones that have the best ideas.The new oil is an idea. It’s all digital. All the new fortunes are being created in ideas space.”
A new era of knowledge building
Founded earlier this year, the Berlin-based startup has just picked up its first funding of €1.4 million.
Investors include Slingshot Ventures, APX, NCA, Venista Ventures, Diaspora Ventures, Lars Kamp (ex MD at Accenture), Vincent Peters (CEO, Productsup), Jens Jahn (Partner & MD at The Boston Consulting Group), Martin Sinner (Founder at Idealo).
Tyles has been created together with Million Ventures, a venture builder from Berlin that is providing hands-on and strategic support to the startup.
Felix Schaper, Founder of Tyles: “We’re incredibly excited to have the opportunity to work on these technical challenges with outstanding individuals from all across the globe and make our mark in the visions that outstanding visionaries like Douglas Engelbart or Vannevar Bush shaped.”
The funding will be used to build up a remote team to design and develop the product, putting the founders’ vision into a tangible reality.
Marvin Liao, Partner at Diaspora Ventures: “What really stood out for me was their love for design. Felix and Cain are working on a problem specific to the massive knowledge economy that will only continue to grow.”
Tyles is aiming to create a research app that allows high-performing professionals to build up critical knowledge at the highest speed possible. Currently, it operates as a modular note-taking tool that makes it incredibly easy to save information from any app like browsers, PDF files or presentations and keep yourself organized without friction.
Generate and evaluate ideas at scale
There are a reported 1 billion knowledge workers on this planet. And ideas and knowledge are becoming increasingly critical in achieving success. Success is no longer just determined by the uni you go to or the job your parents had, but rather the ability to evaluate and scale your knowledge and ideas.
Simultaneously, we now have the internet which provides us with an infinite pool of accessible knowledge. We just simply aren’t using it as efficiently as we should. We waste time and energy and get stressed out juggling through tabs, folders and links. We end up feeling burnt out, overwhelmed and out of touch, and many simply give up.
Investment banks and management consulting firms would traditionally filter for candidates with the “ability to execute”. However, as automation becomes more common, what now really matters is the decision-making processes on the ‘what’ and ‘how’ at the edges of the organization.
Jörg Rheinboldt, CEO at APX: “We’re increasingly living in an information society where you’ll have a disproportionate advantage if you can navigate the exponentially growing supply of information while maintaining mental bandwidth to come up with great ideas. I am impressed with how clearly Felix and Cain are able to articulate this vision.”
Generating ideas and executing them depends on knowledge, and building up knowledge efficiently. And that’s what Tyles want to help achieve. The team’s proposition claims to maximize the volume of information one can capture and structure per unit of time and maximize the rate at which one can form new connections between that information to generate ideas and insights.
It essentially aims to build a knowledge engine so knowledge workers can finally harness the world’s information in the most efficient and effective way. This new funding will help push forward this vision and create new ways for people to build knowledge, and generate and execute the ideas that will shape decisions.
Jens Jahn, Partner & MD at The Boston Consulting Group: “Nowadays, knowledge advantage and associated speed are clear competitive edges in all industries. Tyles is an innovative, mind-blowing solution for knowledge workers and I am more than happy to support the impressive – and likable – founding team on the exciting journey ahead.”
