
Recall.ai YC Application
Recall.ai went through Y Combinator in the Winter 2020 batch as a B2B company. Below: what the company does, who founded it, and its application to YC, reconstructed question by question in the real YC form.
- YC batch
- Winter 2020
- Industry
- B2BEngineering, Product and Design
- Team size
- 30
- Status
- Active
- Launched
- 2021
Founders
David GuFounder
Amanda ZhuFounder
What Recall.ai does
Recall.ai is the API to get recordings, transcripts, and metadata from meetings. We offer several form factors to capture this data: 1. Meetings bots 2. A desktop recording SDK 3. A mobile recording SDK We integrate with meeting platforms like Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, and more, as well as in-person meetings. Over 3000 companies rely on our API today to process millions of hours of meeting data. We provide stable infrastructure that typically takes engineering teams 6+ months of time to build, and help our customers get up and running in days instead of months.
Recall.ai's YC application, reconstructed
Y Combinator application
Recall.ai, Winter 2020 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.
- Founders2
- Company7
- Progress7
- Idea4
- Equity3
- Curious2
- Batch Preference1
Company
Recall.ai
API for meeting recordings, transcripts, metadata
Recall.ai provides APIs that deliver recordings, transcripts, and metadata from meetings. We capture data via meeting bots and desktop and mobile SDKs. We integrate with platforms like Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, and support in-person meetings. Our customers use this infrastructure to avoid building complex meeting data pipelines themselves.
We live in San Francisco, CA, and the company is based here.
San Francisco is where our team is located and where our customers are concentrated. Staying here lets us move fast and stay close to engineering and product talent.
21 more answers in the full application
Founders, Progress, Idea, Equity, Curious, Batch Preference are in the full version. Create a free account to open it in YC Insights, next to every other YC batch.
Frequently Asked Questions
Is this the real Recall.ai YC application?
No. Y Combinator keeps submitted applications private. This is a reconstruction: the real YC form questions, answered from Recall.ai's public data (launch notes, founder backgrounds, product description). It shows how a company like Recall.ai would present itself to YC, not the text they submitted.
What YC batch was Recall.ai in?
Recall.ai was part of the Y Combinator Winter 2020 batch.
Who founded Recall.ai?
Recall.ai was founded by David Gu, Amanda Zhu.
What does Recall.ai do?
The API to get recordings, transcripts, and metadata from meetings
How do I read the full reconstructed application?
Create a free Round Funded account. The full 26-answer version of Recall.ai's application, and every other YC batch, is in YC Insights.