Fireflies.ai
Series ARaised Since FeaturedYour AI meeting assistant
AI-powered meeting assistant that automatically records, transcribes, and analyzes conversations across video conferencing platforms.
About
Fireflies.ai is an AI meeting assistant that joins your video conferences on Zoom, Google Meet, and Microsoft Teams to automatically record, transcribe, and generate intelligent summaries with action items. Founded in 2016 by Krish Ramineni and Sam Udotong, the company famously started by having its founders manually dial into meetings as 'Fred' and take notes by hand โ charging $100/month before building the actual AI. After automating in 2017, Fireflies grew to serve over 20 million users across 500,000+ organizations, including 75% of Fortune 500 companies. The platform features AskFred, a built-in AI assistant trained on your meetings, and launched 200+ AI-powered workflow automation apps in 2025. Fireflies achieved unicorn status in June 2025 with a $1B+ valuation through a tender offer โ notably while being profitable since 2023 and without raising primary capital since its 2021 Series A.
DailyDropout Take
Fireflies.ai caught our attention as a scrappy AI-native startup with an incredible origin story โ two founders manually taking meeting notes while pretending to be an AI bot, then bootstrapping that into a real product. Their capital efficiency is remarkable: reaching unicorn status on just $19M raised while being profitable since 2023. In a crowded meeting AI space, Fireflies' 20M+ user base and Fortune 500 penetration speak to genuine product-market fit.
Discovery signal: MIT/Penn founder pedigree, early mover in AI meeting space, unusually capital-efficient growth, strong enterprise adoption signals
What Makes Them Unique
Fireflies combines conversation intelligence with real-time web search via its Perplexity partnership, making it the first meeting assistant to bring live internet knowledge into meetings. Its capital-efficient path to unicorn status โ profitable since 2023 without raising since 2021 โ is rare in AI.
20M+
Users
500,000+
Organizations
$1B+
Valuation
75%
Fortune 500 Adoption
Target Markets
Founders
Krish Ramineni
Co-Founder & CEO
Studied at the University of Pennsylvania. Originally planned to go into finance or consulting before pivoting to startups.
Sam Udotong
Co-Founder & CTO
MIT graduate in Aerospace Engineering. Nigerian American. Previously interned at Lockheed Martin and Boeing working on avionics and control systems.
Fireflies.ai is hiring!
Team size: 50-100
Funding History
Lead: Canaan Partners
Lead: Khosla Ventures
Investors
Firms
Individual Investors
Former VP Product, Slack