# Fireflies.ai

> Fireflies.ai is a San Francisco-based AI meeting assistant that joins video and phone calls across Zoom, Google Meet and Microsoft Teams to record, transcribe, summarize and analyze conversations. Its bot captures speaker-labeled notes and action items, its AskFred assistant answers questions about past meetings, and its Perplexity-powered Live Assist offers real-time web answers during calls. Founded in 2016 by Krish Ramineni and Sam Udotong, the company reached a $1 billion valuation in 2025 while staying profitable and is used by teams across more than a million organizations.

- **Founded:** 2016
- **Headquarters:** San Francisco, California, United States
- **Founders:** Krish Ramineni (Co-founder & CEO), Sam Udotong (Co-founder & CTO)
- **Team size:** Roughly 80-120 employees (reported ~79 in source data; lean relative to scale)
- **Products:** AI Meeting Assistant (Notetaker), AskFred, Live Assist / Talk to Fireflies, Conversation Intelligence & Analytics, AI Apps / Skills
- **Notable:** Reached a $1 billion valuation in June 2025 via a secondary tender offer, Profitable since 2023 with triple-digit year-over-year growth, Has not raised primary capital since its 2021 Series A

## Products & services

- **AI Meeting Assistant (Notetaker)** — A bot that joins Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams and dialer calls to record, transcribe and summarize meetings with speaker recognition and automatic action items, in 100+ languages.
- **AskFred** — A conversational AI you can ask about any past meeting to surface answers, decisions and follow-ups without rewatching the recording.
- **Live Assist / Talk to Fireflies** — Voice- and text-activated assistant ('Hey Fireflies' or '/ff') that gives real-time coaching, suggestions and Perplexity-powered web answers during live meetings in 60+ languages.
- **Conversation Intelligence & Analytics** — Tracks speaker talk-time, sentiment, topics and participation to surface trends across calls for sales, support and leadership.
- **AI Apps / Skills** — 200+ automations that extract insights and generate follow-up emails, reports, candidate scorecards, content calendars and CRM updates for specific departments.
- **Integrations & API** — Connections to Salesforce, HubSpot, Slack, Notion, Asana, Zapier, ATS tools and a developer API for piping meeting data into other systems.

## Achievements

- Reached a $1 billion valuation in June 2025 via a secondary tender offer
- Profitable since 2023 with triple-digit year-over-year growth
- Has not raised primary capital since its 2021 Series A
- Adopted by teams across 1M+ companies and a reported ~75% of the Fortune 500
- Launched 'Talk to Fireflies' with Perplexity, free to all users including the free plan
- Rated 4.8/5 on G2 for AI meeting assistants
- Bootstrapped for roughly four years on a few thousand dollars before institutional funding

## Latest updates

- **2025-06** — Reached a $1 billion valuation via tender offer and announced a strategic partnership with Perplexity, launching 'Talk to Fireflies' voice-activated real-time web search in meetings.
- **2025-06** — Made Live Assist / Talk to Fireflies available to all users, including those on free plans, across Zoom, Google Meet and Microsoft Teams in 60+ languages.
- **2024** — Expanded its AI Apps / Skills marketplace to 200+ automations for sales, recruiting, support, finance and operations teams.

## Links

- Website: https://fireflies.ai
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/fireflies-inc
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/firefliesai
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@firefliesai
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/firefliesai
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/firefliesapp

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Last updated: 2026-06-16