Tanka Launches at TechCrunch Sessions: AI, Claiming to be Startups' 'AI Co-Founder'
BERKELEY, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Tanka launched its AI-powered collaboration tool for early-stage teams at TechCrunch Sessions: AI on June 5 at the University of California, Berkeley. Tanka's CEO Kisson Lin, a serial entrepreneur who previously held strategic roles at Meta and TikTok, made the announcement on the main stage of TechCrunch Sessions: AI.
Tanka launched its AI-powered collaboration tool for early-stage teams on the main stage of TechCrunch Sessions: AI at UC Berkeley, as announced by CEO Kisson Lin, a serial entrepreneur who previously held strategic roles at Meta and TikTok.
Built from day zero to integrate with an entire tech stack, Tanka unifies Slack, WhatsApp, Gmail, Calendar, Notion, Telegram, and more. But it doesn't stop at consolidation. It transforms every fragmented message, buried doc, or forgotten decision into structured, persistent memory—what Tanka calls a company's " MemoryGraph", which powers faster and smarter agents who complete work directly.
Imagine an AI that builds your landing page based on scattered chat threads. An assistant that remembers your team's internal debates, design preferences, and customer pain points—then auto-generates a prototype, exports it to Figma. That's what Tanka does.
Additional features include:
Memory Transfer, which lets companies pass role-specific knowledge between teammates to ease onboarding;
Search with Memory, which enables search across Slack, email, WhatsApp, Telegram, Notion, and more, for summaries and specific information;
AI Smart Replies, which lets AI draft context-aware replies to one's emails, Slack, WhatsApp, Telegram messages.
At launch, the platform will add several new capabilities not available in beta:
Landing Page Generation: Teams can create both design and code for marketing pages based on prior internal discussions, without extensive prompt engineering.
Presentation Drafting: Fundraising and sales decks can be generated by referencing prior memos and chat history.
UX Feedback Integration: Tanka can analyze customer feedback and suggest UI mockups or prototype code.
Automated Onboarding Documents: Based on a new hire's role and the memory of their predecessor, Tanka can generate personalized onboarding materials.
Lin said the platform is aimed at startups looking to preserve clarity and execution speed as they scale. 'Startups bleed speed when they lose context. Tanka is your memory, your action engine, and your AI-native co-founder rolled into one.' She said. 'It remembers everything, acts with precision, and scales with you.'
End users may access Tanka at www.tanka.ai, and journalists are welcome to reach out for trial credentials.
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