YC-backed Recall.ai gets $10M Series A to help companies use virtual meeting data

More cash for the generative AI increase: Y Combinator-backed developer infrastructure startup Recall.ai introduced Thursday it has raised a $10 million Sequence A funding spherical, bringing its complete raised to over $12 million.

The startup has constructed infrastructure and a unified API that allows corporations to entry uncooked information from digital assembly platforms like Google Meet, Microsoft Groups, Slack Huddles, Zoom and even platforms with no API. With the video and audio information, customers can construct AI-powered assembly bots or apps reminiscent of gross sales teaching, assembly notetaker or day by day standup bots. 

Recall.ai stated the brand new capital will be used to develop its crew and construct integrations with extra information sources. The 2-year-old startup at present has 9 employees and expects to develop its crew to greater than 16 by the top of this 12 months, David Gu, co-founder and CEO, informed Trendster. 

Gu and Recall.ai co-founder Amanda Zhu each attended the College of Waterloo earlier than dropping out to construct the startup. “I studied software program engineering whereas my co-founder studied laptop science and enterprise,” Gu stated. “We dropped out of Waterloo after we have been 19 years outdated to start out an organization collectively. I did Y Combinator once I was 19.”

The duo beforehand labored on a real-time transcription software for video conferences and had expertise constructing integrations with video conferencing platforms and the related infrastructure.

They launched Recall.ai in 2022 with the purpose of responding to 2 important developments — a shift to distant work worldwide and the increase in generative AI — after witnessing different corporations face the identical drawback they did round integrating AI instruments. 

“Enterprises are more and more in search of methods to include AI into their product choices and conversations are a large dataset the place making use of AI makes a ton of sense,” Gu steered. “In 2022, a rising variety of corporations began constructing merchandise that used LLMs [large language models] to course of information from video conferences. Nevertheless, each single considered one of these corporations was working into the identical integration and infrastructure hurdles we had encountered and solved.” 

“It takes a 12 months or extra of engineering time to construct the infrastructure and integrations in-house in essentially the most primary kind,” he went on. “As soon as it’s constructed, corporations face a much bigger problem: Internet hosting the infrastructure requires tons of to hundreds of servers to deal with the processing and a crew of engineers to observe, scale and keep the whole lot.”

Enterprises that use Recall’s API and infrastructure don’t have to construct out this infrastructure themselves, which implies they will deploy new AI-powered merchandise and options quickly and cost-effectively, Gu defined, likening it to how corporations can faucet cloud computing infrastructure like AWS to scale their net apps. Recall.ai goals to offer the frequent infrastructure for each firm that should entry and apply AI to conversations, he added. 

“Recall.ai offers the infrastructure layer that many of those corporations construct on prime of, much like how these corporations use AWS,” he steered. “We don’t have any rivals, as there aren’t another corporations providing the identical service which is developer infrastructure to seize and course of assembly information.”

On the regulatory entrance, Recall.ai says it’s SOC2, GDPR, CCPA and HIPAA compliant and has no navy or authorities contracts. Audio and video recordings are saved for a most of seven days, after which they are mechanically deleted. 

“We additionally present an API endpoint for customers to delete the information instantly at any time in the event that they wish to reduce the period we retailer the information for,” Gu stated. 

The startup earns income by charging per hour of audio and video processed by its APIs. In lower than two years Recall.ai has grown annual revenues from zero to a number of million {dollars}, Gu famous, saying it now has greater than 300 enterprise clients which collectively carry “thousands and thousands” of customers.

Over the previous 12 months, the corporate has seen 10x progress in income, he additionally informed us.

Ridge Ventures led the Sequence A together with Trade Ventures, Y Combinator, IrregEx, Bungalow Capital, Hack VC and different present buyers.