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Town

Town

Early stageUnder 40 employeesAISan Francisco, United StatesFounded 2024
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Overview

Town is a personalized AI assistant that learns how you work across the tools you already use — email, calendar, Slack, docs, WhatsApp, desktop, and web — and starts pitching in without prompting or setup. Each user's assistant is called a Townie. It builds a persistent model of a person's voice, relationships, priorities, and routines, then takes action on their behalf. Town was founded by Jean-Denis Greze, formerly CTO of Plaid, and Tony Vincent, formerly of Google AI.

Jobs
16
open roles · San Francisco and NYC
Product story
2024
founded in San Francisco
Total raised
$73M
across two rounds, 2024–2026
Team
Under 40
employees according to Town's careers page, September 2026
Why we invested

Two Dropbox alumni rebuilt their company around a bet that the moat in consumer AI is not the model and not the feature set — it is accumulated personal context, which no competitor can spin up overnight. We led the Series A in June 2026.

The memo's argument is that the category winner will not be whoever ships the most capability, but whoever earns enough trust to hold a user's context long enough for it to compound. Town shipped a product people were already passing around our own group chats before we ever ran a process.

→ Investing in Town→ The founder’s launch thread→ First Round investor Todd Jackson on adoption
Our first check
$55M Series A
June 2026 — a16z led
Valuation
Not disclosed
neither round disclosed terms

Featured Jobs

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Executive Producer, Brand Ops

$150K – $225K · San Francisco, California, United States · Posted 3 days ago

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Community & Events

$150K – $225K · San Francisco, California, United States · Posted a month ago

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Town

Recruiting and Office Coordinator

$75K – $115K · San Francisco, California, United States · Posted a month ago

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Product story

2024
Founded as a tax company.

Jean-Denis Greze and Tony Vincent, friends and former Dropbox colleagues of over a decade, incorporate Standard Tax Company, Inc. in Delaware in 2024. The product pairs a dedicated human tax advisor with AI-driven document processing, data collection, and regulatory navigation, aimed at giving small businesses the tax advantages large corporations already have. First securities sale closes 15 November 2024; the round is announced publicly four months later, in March 2025. The tax product is the foundation the assistant is later built on, not a false start the company disowns.

Standard Tax’s original Form DSEC EDGAR ↗Town launches with an $18M seed roundFinTech Futures ↗The small-business tax platformPYMNTS ↗

Funding rounds

Date
Round
Raised
Valuation
Lead / investors
Jun 2026
Series A
Raised $55M
Valuation Not disclosed
a16z led · Forerunner Ventures, First Round, Alt Capital, Conviction
Mar 2025
Seed
Raised $18M
Valuation Not disclosed
First Round Capital led · Conviction, Alt Capital, Mischief, WndrCo, Adam D’Angelo, Christina Cacioppo, Helen Min, Immad Akhund, Soleio Cuervo, William Hockey

Team

Jean-Denis GrezeJean-Denis GrezeCo-founder & CEOFormer CTO of Plaid, where he led engineering, product and design from roughly $10M to $300M+ in ARR. Before that, an engineering leader at Dropbox.LinkedIn Tony VincentTony VincentCo-founder & CPOFormer Director of Applied AI Product at Google. Co-founded Aspen (acquired by Google) and Sold (acquired by Dropbox), and led design at Dropbox.LinkedIn
Culture

Town, in their own words

Town's San Francisco office — an open-plan workspace with a wood communal table, orange chairs, sit-stand desks, and the team at work.
In office

Five days a week in San Francisco

The Financial District office has free lunch, snacks and fully covered health benefits; an NYC office is planned.

Town careers page, read 16 Sep 2026 ↗
Jean-Denis Greze, Co-Founder & CEO of Town
Jean-Denis Greze
Co-Founder & CEO
Every Monday

"One meaty, important thing every Monday."

Town kept its weekly shipping ritual while growing from 10 to 26 people, June–August 2026.

@jgreze on X, 28 Aug 2026 ↗
Jean-Denis Greze, Co-Founder & CEO of Town
Jean-Denis Greze
Co-Founder & CEO, Town
Quote · CEO

"And we get it done by Sunday."

For urgent Friday work, teammates volunteer evening and weekend hours after an impromptu stand-up.

@jgreze on X, 28 Aug 2026 ↗
Jean-Denis Greze, Co-Founder & CEO of Town
Jean-Denis Greze
Co-Founder & CEO, Town
On offer day

The offer-day “love bomb”

About a dozen teammates email candidates about why they joined.

@jgreze on X, 11 Aug 2026 ↗
Town wordmark and Townie characters
In the footer

28 Townies in the credits

Every page thanks its AI assistants, with names like Ivy, Gizmo, Marshmallow and Wizard.

town.com footer, read 16 Sep 2026 ↗
Tony Vincent, Co-Founder & CPO of Town
Tony Vincent
Co-Founder & CPO, Town
Quote · CPO

"now i refresh our analytics at midnight to see how many new signups we got."

After shipping to billions at Google, tracking Town signups feels equally high stakes to Tony.

@tonydevincenzi on X, 31 Mar 2026 ↗
A framed Town print on a wall in Town's office — 'TOWN' above a list of the people Town is for — beside a plant and city windows.
How we work

Ownership is the job

Decide at 70%, welcome disagreement, go deep and make every launch worth trying.

Town careers page, read 16 Sep 2026 ↗
Jean-Denis Greze, Co-Founder & CEO of Town
Jean-Denis Greze
Co-Founder & CEO, Town
Per engineer

~$75K a year in AI tools per engineer

Reported annual run rate on 16 Sep 2026; the stack includes Devin, Cursor, Codex and Claude Code.

@jgreze on X, 16 Sep 2026 ↗
Platformer podcast episode: Town's CEO on the self-organizing company▶72 min
Watch · 72 min

The self-organizing company

Casey Newton and Jean-Denis Greze discuss AI assistants, company wikis and private Townie conversations.

Jean-Denis Greze with Casey Newton
Platformer

Platformer, 13 Aug 2026 ↗
Your Townie

Ivy, the CEO’s silver fox

Townie owners choose a name, personality and animal avatar; Ivy nods to the CEO’s prematurely grey hair.

Fortune, 3 Jun 2026 ↗
Jean-Denis Greze, Co-Founder & CEO of Town
Jean-Denis Greze
Co-Founder & CEO, Town
Hiring bar

"I want people who can live AI"

The hiring bar includes months of hands-on AI experiments and building tools to improve your workflow.

@jgreze on X, 20 Aug 2026 ↗
A framed Town print on a wall in Town's office — 'TOWN' above a list of the people Town is for — beside a plant and city windows.
No posting? Apply

Generalists welcome, posting or no posting

"If you're convinced you'd make Town better, tell us why."

Town careers page, read 16 Sep 2026 ↗
Cultural principlesOwnership is the job. · Let's gooooo. · Disagreement is good. · Go deep. · Wow is the bar.