Vesence Raises $9,000,000 in Seed Round to Build the AI Workspace Where Knowledge Actually Works
November 4, 2025
 byFenoms Start-Ups

Vesence has raised $9,000,000 in Seed funding, backed by Emergence Capital, Creandum, Y Combinator, 20VC, Paul Graham, Anton Osika, Jason Bohemig, and others. Led by founder Henrik Hansson, Vesence is building something deceptively simple but painfully overdue: an AI workspace where information doesn’t just sit - it becomes usable.
Instead of forcing teams to search across wikis, scattered docs, endless Slack threads, and “who remembers where that link is?” DMs, Vesence centralizes knowledge and makes it actionable. Any workflow, SOP, or tribal knowledge becomes instantly accessible through AI that understands context, permissions, and intent. Vesence brings intelligence to the place companies store information - and turns knowledge into execution.
Teams spend hours gathering what they need in order to get five minutes of actual work done. Vesence flips that dynamic.
You don’t go search for the knowledge  -  the knowledge comes to you.
Reframing Knowledge Management: From Storage to Execution
Traditional knowledge tools act like filing cabinets. You store information, but the moment you need it, the hunt begins. Pages, folders, tags, naming conventions - it all becomes friction. Modern companies don’t struggle with documentation. They struggle with accessing what has already been documented. Vesence solves it by connecting AI to your actual knowledge graph. Workflows become self-service. Information becomes responsive.
Instead of thinking in terms of “where is this?”
Vesence reorients work around “what needs to happen next?”
The product doesn’t store knowledge.
 It operationalizes it.
Infrastructure Over Another AI App: Vesence Becomes the Layer Everyone Builds On
Every company is hunting for their “AI moment” - writing agents, building internal copilots, adding automation to random workflows. But these tools are only as powerful as the information they can reference. AI without context is just autocomplete.
Vesence solves the missing layer.
It becomes the knowledge infrastructure that every AI agent, every workflow, every app will eventually plug into.
Instead of pushing another dashboard or another workspace, Vesence acts as the central nervous system where:
- knowledge lives,
 - context is preserved,
 - and decisions become automated.
 
AI is not powerful because it can think.
 AI becomes powerful because it can access the right information.
Make the System People Can’t Opt Out Of
Here’s the biggest strategic unlock  -  and it applies to every founder, not just this product.
Most companies build features that help workflows.
Category owners build the system the workflow depends on.
Vesence doesn’t ask companies to adopt a new workflow.
It inserts itself into the workflows teams already use.
Founders often obsess over adoption. Vesence focused on inevitability.
Instead of asking, “How do we convince teams to use this?”
They asked, “How do we make this impossible not to use?”
When your product becomes the system, users don’t adopt you.
 They rely on you.
Investor Confidence and Strategic Momentum
Emergence Capital and Creandum are known for backing category-defining SaaS companies - think Notion, Zoom, Veeva, Salesforce. Y Combinator, 20VC, and Paul Graham don’t chase noise. They chase inevitability. And the signal here is obvious: the next platform shift in enterprise AI will be memory, context, and knowledge orchestration, not more standalone AI tools.
This investor lineup doesn’t just offer capital.
It offers network, distribution, GTM acceleration, and founder firepower.
Investors aren’t betting on documentation.
They’re betting on the infrastructure that will power the next generation of AI-driven work.
A Market That Needs Knowledge to Move, Not Sit
Knowledge management is a trillion-dollar productivity problem disguised as “just documentation.” Global workforce research shows:
- Employees spend 19% of their week searching for information.
 - Knowledge workers lose 3–5 hours per week to fragmented systems.
 - The market for enterprise collaboration and AI knowledge tools is projected to exceed $200+ billion by 2030, growing aggressively as AI replaces manual lookup and coordination.
 - Companies using centralized knowledge platforms see 25–40% productivity uplift.
 
The number one reason teams fail to execute isn’t lack of documentation.
It’s because knowledge doesn’t move with the workflow.
The future of work is not about storing information.
It’s about activating it.
Why Vesence Wins: Context Is the New Interface
There are hundreds of tools that promise better workflows.
But workflows aren’t broken because tools are bad.
Workflows are broken because context doesn’t travel with the work.
Vesence turns:
- tribal knowledge into documented clarity,
 - documented clarity into automation,
 - automation into speed.
 
Information becomes a living asset  -  not a graveyard of outdated docs.
The result? New hires ramp faster, teams execute aligned, and knowledge becomes reusable instead of recreating it every time.
Vesence doesn’t save time by “making documentation easier.”
It saves time by making documentation irrelevant.
What’s Next for Vesence
With $9M secured, Vesence is scaling engineering teams, deepening AI orchestration capabilities, and building integrations across enterprise tools - Notion, Slack, Google Drive, CRM platforms, and developer environments. The next phase is turning Vesence into the context brain across an organization, where AI agents pull information dynamically and execute tasks without humans assembling context.
Vesence is not building another workspace.
It is becoming the environment where work actually happens.
The end state?
You don’t ask the AI questions.
The AI already knows what you need  -  and handles it.
Final Thoughts
Most companies will adopt AI.
Only a few will fully leverage it.
Vesence is forcing a shift in how we think about work:
- not “Where is the information?”
 - but “Why isn’t this already done?”
 
Knowledge no longer sits in wikis, messages, files, or someone’s head.
It becomes an active part of execution.
The future of productivity isn’t documentation.
It’s automatic context.
 And Vesence is building the system that makes knowledge self-executing.









