Read AI

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Your AI copilot for work

AI-powered meeting copilot that generates real-time engagement analytics, summaries, and action items across meetings, emails, and messages.

Founded January 2021Seattle, WA~50 people$81M raisedFeatured at Seed

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About

Read AI is an AI copilot platform that transforms how professionals interact with meetings, emails, and messages. Founded in 2021 by David Shim, Rob Williams, and Elliott Waldron — the team behind Placed (acquired by Snap for $200M+) — the company initially launched as a real-time Zoom engagement analytics tool that used NLP and computer vision to measure attendee engagement, talk time, and sentiment during virtual meetings. The platform has since expanded into a comprehensive productivity suite offering AI-generated summaries, action items, and a search copilot that unifies insights across meetings, emails, chats, CRMs, and workflows. Read AI integrates with Google Meet, Zoom, Microsoft Teams, Gmail, Outlook, Slack, and 25+ other platforms, supporting transcription in 20+ languages. With over 100K new accounts created weekly and 1M+ monthly users, Read AI has become one of the fastest-growing AI startups in the enterprise productivity space. The company is SOC 2 Type 2 certified and GDPR/HIPAA compliant. Zoom officially selected Read AI as an Essential App with premium features enabled.

DailyDropout Take

Read AI was spotted early as a Zoom analytics tool and has since evolved into one of the fastest-growing AI productivity platforms in enterprise software. The founding team — serial entrepreneurs who built and sold Placed to Snap for $200M+ — brought deep enterprise DNA to a crowded meeting-AI space and differentiated by expanding beyond transcription into a unified copilot across all workplace communication channels. With 1M+ monthly users and a $450M valuation, Read AI has validated the thesis that AI-powered meeting intelligence is a must-have, not a nice-to-have.

Discovery signal: Experienced founding team with successful exit (Placed → Snap $200M+), early mover in AI meeting analytics, rapid user growth trajectory.

What Makes Them Unique

Read AI goes beyond simple transcription by combining real-time engagement analytics with AI-powered summaries across meetings, emails, and messages — creating a unified copilot for all workplace communication rather than just meeting notes. The founding team's track record of building and exiting Placed ($200M+ acquisition) gives them deep enterprise credibility.

1M+

Monthly Users

100K+

New Accounts/Week

$450M

Valuation

$81M

Total Raised

25+

Integrations

Target Markets

EnterpriseSMBsRemote TeamsSales TeamsEducation

Founders

David Shim

Co-Founder & CEO

Serial entrepreneur who previously founded Placed, a location analytics company acquired by Snap for $200M+ and later by Foursquare where he served as CEO. Named GeekWire CEO of the Year.