CircleBack

About CircleBack

Circleback AI, Inc., operating as Circleback, was established in San Francisco in 2023 by co-founders Ali Haghani and Kevin Jacyna. The company's inception stemmed from the founders' direct experience with the loss of valuable information following meetings in large corporate environments. Haghani, the CEO, previously served as an engineer at Stripe, where he led the initial integration of large language models (LLMs) into support systems, and also worked on ad experimentation at Twitter. Jacyna's background includes a role as a senior software engineer at Tableau, focusing on predictive analytics. Both are alumni of the University of British Columbia. The duo began coding for Circleback in January 2023 and left their full-time jobs in July 2023 to dedicate themselves to the venture.

The company operates as a B2B software-as-a-service (SaaS) provider in the productivity software market, targeting a broad range of clients from individuals and sales teams to large enterprises. Its business model is subscription-based, with pricing tiers for individuals, teams, and custom enterprise plans. Circleback has secured a total of $3 million in funding over two seed rounds, with notable investors including Y Combinator (as part of the W24 batch), Rebel Fund, Pioneer Fund, and Transpose Platform. The most recent funding round in November 2024 raised $2.5 million.

Circleback offers an AI-powered platform designed to enhance meeting productivity. The service automatically transcribes, summarizes, and identifies action items from virtual and in-person meetings. It integrates with major calendar and video conferencing platforms like Google Meet, Zoom, and Microsoft Teams, and supports transcription in over 100 languages. The platform's core functionality is to create a searchable knowledge base from conversations, allowing users to query past meeting details. A key feature is its automation capability, which enables workflows to be created that can push data to third-party applications such as CRMs like HubSpot and Salesforce, or project management tools like Notion and Linear. The platform emphasizes data security and is SOC 2 Type II certified.