Fireflies.ai
Fireflies.ai (stylised as „fireflies.ai“) is a private technology company that develops an AI-powered meeting assistant platform. The company creates software to record, transcribe, summarise and analyse voice and video meetings, and integrates with major conferencing and collaboration tools.
History
The company was founded in 2016 by Krish Ramineni and Sam Udotong. The initial idea stemmed from addressing the challenge of capturing meeting content (notes, action items) across teams; the founders pivoted several times before landing on the meeting-assistant product. By June 2025, Fireflies.ai announced it had reached a valuation of over US$1 billion while remaining profitable.
Products and Services
Fireflies.ai’s core offering is a cloud-based meeting assistant that can join meetings (via tools like Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams), record audio / video, transcribe the conversation, identify speakers, generate summaries and action items, and capture insights for search and analytics. It also supports integrations with CRM systems and other workflow tools, enabling automation of meeting-data entry and insights.
Market and Customers
The company reports usage by organisations across many sectors; publicly they claim usage by a high percentage of Fortune 500 companies. Customer testimonials highlight that Fireflies.ai automates time-consuming work of capturing and organising meeting content for sales, customer-facing teams and internal team meetings.
Technology
The service leverages speech-to-text transcription, natural language processing to generate summaries and action items, speaker-diarisation (identifying who said what), and search/indexing over meeting transcripts. The recent “Talk to Fireflies” feature adds voice-activated real-time web-search capability during meetings.
Funding and Valuation
By mid-2025 the company had reached a valuation over US$1 billion through a tender-offer event, marking “unicorn” status while reporting profitability.
Reception and Criticism
Reviews of Fireflies.ai note that its transcription accuracy is strong under ideal conditions, and the ease of integrating meeting capture workflows is a positive. However, some users cite limitations in noisy environments, multiple accents, and slower processing times. On forums, users have raised concerns about the process by which the assistant joins meetings (for instance seeing an attendee labelled “Fireflies AI Notetaker”) and ask questions about consent, privacy and configuration.
See Also
- Artificial intelligence
- Meeting productivity software
- Transcription software
- Voice assistant