Scuba: two former Slack employees raise $34 million for a ‘context engine’ shared between teams and AI agents

Noah Desai Weiss and Dolapo Falola are publicly launching their New York-based start-up, which is backed by Accel and IVP and supported by Patrick Collison, Stewart Butterfield and Mike Krieger.

Former Slack product director Noah Desai Weiss teamed up with Dolapo Falola, who led engineering at Slack and then at The Browser Company, to found Scuba. Their observation: assistants and code agents save everyone's time, but a team struggles to stay aligned with what it is trying to build and how it works. Scuba is a common memory that employees and AI agents alike can consult.

Captures and collections

For the past six months, a few hundred small teams have been testing the service: they record content found online (articles, videos, pages, publications) and store it in shared, searchable and summarizing collections. MCP connectors then make it possible to exploit this context from ChatGPT, Claude or Slack.

The company raised $34 million in two rounds, a pre-seed round led by Accel and a seed round co-led by Accel and IVP. Retail investors include Slack co-founders Stewart Butterfield and Cal Henderson, Patrick Collison (Stripe), Mike Krieger, Reid Hoffman, and Drew Houston.