Every company swears it wants clarity. Then Monday happens. Meetings stack, Slack scrolls, decisions get made in the margins, and by Friday everyone is nodding at outcomes nobody can quite trace back to a why. Context doesn’t die loudly. It leaks. Quietly. And enterprises bleed from a thousand forgotten conversations.
Sentra.app just raised $5M to deal with that leak, and not with another polite wiki that asks employees to remember to remember. This is an enterprise general intelligence platform built on the radical idea that companies should have memory the same way people do. Living. Reflective. Slightly opinionated. The kind that knows what mattered last quarter and why it still matters now.
The round was co-led by a16z speedrun and Together Fund, with Parable, Precursor Ventures, Inovia, Backwards Capital, and Antigravity Capital in the mix. Angels include Gokul Rajaram, Siqi Chen, and former executives from Microsoft, Dropbox, Salesforce, and Slack. That roster reads like people who have watched organizations scale and felt the moment when alignment quietly slipped out the back door.
Jae Gwan Park is building this as Co-founder and CEO with the posture of someone who has seen complex systems fail in slow motion and decided that was optional. Andrey Starenky, Co-founder and CTO, gives Sentra its spine, turning theory into something that actually holds up inside real enterprises. Ashwin Gopinath brings the Reflexion research that started at MIT and asked a dangerous question: what if systems could learn by thinking about how they think? Al Rey rounds out the founding team, named and present, even if the work speaks louder than the bio.
Sentra captures conversations, decisions, and commitments as they happen, connects them into a governed knowledge graph, and surfaces context when teams need it, not 3 weeks later during a postmortem. Slack, Jira, GitHub, Zoom, calendars, email. The tools enterprises already live in. The memory they never had. A git log for decisions, minus the blame and plus the understanding.
There is already a paid proof of concept running with SoftBank. Not a vibe check. A check with a signature. SOC 2 compliance, role-based retrieval, on-prem and isolated deployments. This is not an experiment pretending to be enterprise ready. It is built for organizations where forgetting costs real money.
The lesson here is simple and uncomfortable. Scale does not break companies. Amnesia does. Sentra is betting that the next generation of enterprise software will not just execute work, but remember it, reason about it, and quietly keep everyone honest about what was said, what was decided, and why it mattered.
