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SourceThe API to get recordings, transcripts, and metadata from meetings
Company research
Public company, workplace, funding, and market signals
Updated Jul 30, 2026
Overview
Recall.ai is a San Francisco-based conversation-data infrastructure company (founded in 2020; Recall.ai branded launch in 2022) that provides APIs/SDKs for meeting recording, transcripts, metadata, speaker diarization, and related capture workflows across video calls, desktop, mobile, phone, and in-person meetings.
Primary product
Meeting Bot API and conversation-data infrastructure for meeting recording/transcription
Founded
2020
Headquarters
San Francisco, California, United States
Team size
11-50 employees
Work style
Onsite
Industry
Software Development
Sub-industry
Meeting recording API / conversation data infrastructure
Offices
2261 Market Street #4339, San Francisco, CA 94114, United States
Business model
usage-based developer API
self-serve pay-as-you-go
custom enterprise pricing
Funding
People & investors
Leadership
Co-founder & CEO
Co-founder & COO
VP of Sales
VP of Finance
Founding RevOps
Fractional CFO
Investors
Austen Allred
Bessemer Venture Partners
Brian Vallelunga
Bungalow Capital
Cathexis Ventures
David Cramer
Eoghan McCabe
Hack VC
HubSpot Ventures
Industry Ventures
IrregEx
Michael Siebel
Mike Adams
Paul Graham
Pioneer Fund
Rebel Fund
Ridge Ventures
RTP Ventures
Salesforce Ventures
Siqi Chen
Solomon Hykes
Starling Ventures
SV Tech Ventures
Y Combinator
Work & culture
Founder-led, execution-heavy, and strongly in-person in San Francisco. Public posts emphasize fast shipping, customer feedback loops, and hiring ex-founders / high-agency operators.
Work style
Onsite
Compensation
Public job postings showed San Francisco base pay roughly in the $185K-$300K range, with at least one backend role advertising 0.20%-0.50% equity; the company also posted senior sales and engineering roles at market-leading base salaries.
Benefits
Office meals and snacks
Commute reimbursement (fuel, parking, ride-hailing/Waymo)
Company cards for office-related expenses
Product & market
Pricing
Usage-based pricing per recording hour, with a free tier, add-on transcription/storage charges, and custom Launch/Enterprise plans
Differentiators
- —Separate participant audio streams for diarization
- —100% perfect speaker identification claim
- —Bot and no-bot capture options via Desktop Recording SDK
- —Calendar API for meeting metadata enrichment
- —Broad platform coverage across Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, Webex, Slack Huddles, and in-person workflows
- —Enterprise-grade reliability/compliance positioning with a 99.9% SLA claim
Technology
Zoom
Google Meet
Microsoft Teams
Webex
Slack Huddles
Calendly
HubSpot
Apollo.io
Confluence
Ramp
YouTube
Reddit
LinkedIn
X / Twitter
Customers
ClickUp
Apollo.io
Revenue.io
Jiminny
Mem.ai
Incident.io
Circle Medical
Filevine
Mindtickle
Fellow
Affinity
Datadog
Calendly
Instacart
Rippling
Competitors
Fireflies.ai
Otter.ai
Nylas Notetaker
Meeting BaaS
Attendee
Skribby
Scale & contact
Estimated revenue
$1M-$10M
Estimated monthly visits
186K
Traffic estimate as of Jul 2026
Signals & risks
Latest news
Recall.ai blog · May 2026
Recall.ai lowered usage pricing to $0.50/hour, removed platform fees, and continued to position itself as infrastructure for meeting-data products.
SiliconANGLE · Sep 2025
SiliconANGLE covered the Series B and described Recall.ai as backend infrastructure for AI that understands human conversations.
Business Wire · Sep 2025
The company closed a $38M Series B led by Bessemer Venture Partners at a $250M valuation and said it serves more than 2,000 companies.
Axios Pro · Sep 2025
Axios reported the $38M Series B led by Bessemer Venture Partners and highlighted Recall.ai's meeting-recording infrastructure business.
TechCrunch · May 2024
TechCrunch reported the $10M Series A led by Ridge Ventures and detailed Recall.ai's API for extracting meeting data from multiple platforms.
Jobs and careers at Recall.ai
5 jobs at Recall.ai
Founding Internal Products Engineer
On-site
Engineering
San Francisco; San Francisco, California, United States
2w ago
On-site
Full-time
Founding Controller
On-site
G&A
San Francisco; San Francisco, California, United States
2w ago
On-site
Full-time
Founding Enterprise Account Manager
On-site
Sales
San Francisco
3mo ago
On-site
Full-time
Velocity Account Executive
On-site
Sales
San Francisco
7mo ago
On-site
Full-time
Backend Software Engineer
On-site
Engineering
San Francisco
1y ago
On-site
Full-time