Microsoft has hired the entire team behind Cove, a Sequoia-backed AI collaboration startup that built an infinite whiteboard where AI could generate cards, tables, and lists, with the product shutting down on April 1 and all user data to be deleted. Cove was founded in late 2023 by three former Google Maps veterans and raised $6M in seed funding from Sequoia Capital, Elad Gil, and others before the acquihire. Microsoft did not detail how it plans to integrate Cove’s technology, though the company said the ideas behind Cove “will live on” within Microsoft, which already added Copilot to its own Whiteboard collaboration product in 2023.
