Loading organizations...
Logseq provides an open-source, privacy-first knowledge management system, designed to help users connect and organize their notes. The platform enables individuals to structure information through features such as linked references, queries, flashcards, and block references, transforming disparate thoughts into a cohesive and interconnected knowledge base. This approach facilitates a deeper understanding and aids in generating new insights from accumulated information, serving as a versatile tool for complex knowledge workflows.
The company was founded in 2020 by Tienson Qin, driven by the insight that modern knowledge workers are often overwhelmed by disconnected information, leading to a loss of context and difficulty in synthesizing ideas. Qin envisioned a system that could address this fragmentation, allowing users to move beyond linear note-taking to a more organic, interconnected method that mirrors human thought processes, thereby fostering better organization and idea generation.
Logseq caters to a broad audience of knowledge workers, including students, academics, writers, project managers, and developers who grapple with large volumes of information. The company's long-term vision centers on building a "new World Knowledge Graph," aiming to empower users to gain clarity and enhance their understanding by transforming their daily deluge of unstructured data into a structured and easily navigable resource.
Logseq has raised $4.0M across 1 funding round.
Logseq has raised $4.0M in total across 1 funding round.
Logseq is a free, open-source personal knowledge base and note-taking app that stores data locally and uses a graph database to create semantic connections between notes, tasks, flashcards, and PDF markups.[1][2] It serves students, academics, writers, project managers, developers, and teams seeking privacy-first tools for managing interconnected information, solving the limitations of hierarchical apps like Evernote or Notion by enabling infinite graph-based navigation.[1][2][3] Backed by Logseq Inc., which raised over $4.1M in seed funding from investors like Stripe CEO Patrick Collison and Shopify CEO Tobias Lütke, Logseq shows strong growth through community adoption at organizations like Google, Meta, and MIT, with expanding features like plugins and cross-platform support (Windows, macOS, Linux, Android, iOS).[1][2]
Tienson Qin founded Logseq after growing frustrated with existing note-taking tools that failed to run on his iPad—where he took work notes and drew with his six-year-old daughter—and relied on rigid hierarchical structures rather than interconnected graphs.[1][2] Starting as a solo project around 2021 to build a platform for storing and traversing infinite graphs of information across devices, it evolved into a full open-source tool written in ClojureScript with Electron for desktop apps.[1][5] Logseq Inc. was formally established with co-founders An Vu, Huang Peng, Tienson Qin, and ZhiYuan Chen, securing $4.1M in seed funding to fuel growth, marking a pivotal shift from hobbyist origins to a backed venture with GitHub sync and plugin ecosystems.[1]
Logseq rides the personal knowledge management (PKM) trend, fueled by remote work, AI-augmented research, and demand for non-hierarchical tools amid tools like Notion's rise, positioning it as a rethink for individual and team knowledge graphs.[2][4] Timing aligns with open-source resurgence and privacy concerns post-data breaches, leveraging graph databases (like those in CRMs) for semantic search that mirrors the web's hyperlink model but locally.[2] Market forces favor it through adoption at tech giants and radar nods from Thoughtworks, influencing ecosystems by enabling democratic team wikis, reducing onboarding friction, and inspiring plugin economies—though curation is needed to prevent overload.[2][4]
Logseq's trajectory points to enterprise-grade features like full real-time collaboration and advanced AI integrations for query-building, capitalizing on its $4.1M war chest to challenge proprietary PKM leaders.[1][2] Trends in decentralized knowledge (e.g., local AI models, Web3 sync) will amplify its privacy edge, potentially evolving it into organizational CRMs or research platforms. Its open ecosystem could cement influence by spawning derivatives, tying back to Qin's vision of traversable infinite graphs that empower users over platforms.[1][2]
Logseq has raised $4.0M across 1 funding round. Most recently, it raised $4.0M Seed in May 2022.
| Date | Round | Lead Investors | Other Investors | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 1, 2022 | $4M Seed | Tobias Lütke | Aglae Ventures, AirAngels, Andreessen Horowitz, Breakthrough Energy Ventures, C2 Investment, Divergent Capital, Felicis Ventures, FJ Labs, Flex Capital, FTX Ventures, Jlabs, Jude Gomila Rolling Fund, Lowercarbon Capital, Otherwise Fund, Pareto Holdings, Polychain Capital, Redpoint Ventures, Sequoia Capital, Serena Ventures, Seven Seven SIX, Sherpalo Ventures, Social Capital, Sweet Capital, The HIT Forge, Union Square Ventures, Unruly Capital, World Fund, Akshay Kothari, Azeem Azhar, Balaji Srinivasan, Charlie Songhurst, Claire Hughes Johnson, Derrick LI, Ellen PAO, James Beshara, Jeremy Stoppelman, Jeremy YAP, Manu Ginobilli, Marcos Galperin, Michael MA, Nitay Joffe, Sahil Lavingia, SAM Blond, Scott Belsky, Seth Goldman, Tikhon Bernstam, Varadh Jain, Charlie Cheever, Dave Winer, NAT Friedman, Patrick Collison, Sriram Krishnan, A16z Scout Fund, Craft Ventures, DAY ONE Ventures, Matrix Partners | Announced |
Logseq has raised $4.0M in total across 1 funding round.
Logseq's investors include Tobias Lütke, Aglae Ventures, AirAngels, Andreessen Horowitz, Breakthrough Energy Ventures, C2 Investment, Divergent Capital, Felicis Ventures, FJ Labs, Flex Capital, FTX Ventures, Jlabs.
