Read AI

About Read AI

Read AI was founded in 2021 in Seattle by David Shim, Robert Williams, and Elliott Waldron. The platform provides an AI copilot for meetings, email, and messaging that automatically records, transcribes, and summarises interactions, extracts action items, and provides engagement analytics. The platform integrates with Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, Gmail, Outlook, and Slack. Key features include real-time meeting transcription, automatic summary generation, action item extraction, sentiment and engagement scoring, and cross-platform search across all meetings and communications. Read AI raised $50 million in a Series B round (2024) led by Smash Capital with participation from Madrona and Goodwater Capital, bringing total funding to $81 million. The company has approximately 85 employees. For European businesses, Read AI competes with tools like Fireflies.ai, Otter.ai, and built-in Microsoft Copilot features. Meeting recordings and transcriptions contain highly sensitive business data, making data residency and handling policies critical. As a US-incorporated company, standard CLOUD Act considerations apply. European businesses should review data handling terms carefully given the sensitivity of meeting content.