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Business Standard
2 days ago
- Business
- Business Standard
Fireflies hits $1 bn valuation, adds real-time search with Perplexity
Voice assistant expands features with Perplexity tie-up as Fireflies crosses $1 bn valuation and sees sharp growth in enterprise AI-powered meeting productivity tools Peerzada Abrar Bengaluru Listen to This Article the artificial intelligence meeting assistant used by employees at three-quarters of Fortune 500 companies, has surpassed a $1 billion valuation following its inaugural tender offer, according to chief executive and co-founder Krish Ramineni. Alongside this milestone, the company announced a partnership with AI search startup Perplexity, aiming to integrate real-time, voice-activated web search into its platform. The new feature, dubbed 'Talk to Fireflies', allows users to query the internet during meetings without leaving the conversation—a move Fireflies says will streamline access to external information in live discussions. The valuation and product update highlight the growing demand for productivity tools
Business Wire
2 days ago
- Business
- Business Wire
Fireflies Reaches $1 Billion Valuation, Partners With Perplexity to Bring Real-time Web Search to Meetings
SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- the #1 AI teammate for meetings used by people at 75% of Fortune 500 companies, today announced it has reached a valuation of over $1 billion following its first tender offer. The company also unveiled a strategic partnership with Perplexity to bring voice-activated, real-time web search capabilities to meetings through "Talk to Fireflies," enabling users to access the world's knowledge without leaving their conversations. "By integrating Perplexity's search capabilities into Fireflies, we're eliminating the need to switch contexts or postpone decisions as workers move to question-first problem-solving." - Dmitry Shevelenko, Chief Business Officer at Perplexity Share The tender offer provides liquidity to early team members who have been with the company for years, reflecting Fireflies' commitment to rewarding those instrumental in building the company. This milestone comes as Fireflies maintains profitability since 2023—a rarity among AI startups—while sustaining triple-digit year-over-year growth without raising primary capital since 2021. "We wanted to recognize our earliest employees who've been vital to Fireflies' journey," said Krish Ramineni, CEO and co-founder of "Reaching this significant valuation milestone while remaining profitable validates our approach to building an AI company differently from the conventional 'raise big, burn fast' playbook. This coincides with a larger product evolution that will change how people experience meetings." Fireflies has quietly become one of the fastest-growing productivity platforms, serving 20 million people across more than 500,000 organizations globally. Over the past 18 months, user growth has surged 8x, driven by demand for AI tools that streamline meetings, automate workflows, and unlock institutional knowledge. Talk to Fireflies: transforming the meeting experience With today's launch of "Talk to Fireflies," Fireflies becomes an interactive AI meeting companion that users can engage with via voice ("Hey Fireflies!") or text ("/ff") during meetings—in over 60 languages. In a first-of-its-kind partnership, Fireflies has integrated Perplexity's web search capabilities, allowing users to ask questions and get real-time answers sourced from the internet—all without leaving their meeting. "At Perplexity, we're focused on bringing accurate, real-time answers to people wherever and whenever they're making decisions," said Dmitry Shevelenko, Chief Business Officer at Perplexity. "Meetings are where critical decisions happen, but they're often information-poor environments. By integrating Perplexity's search capabilities into Fireflies, we're eliminating the need to switch contexts or postpone decisions as workers move to question-first problem-solving." Unlike features restricted to paid tiers or specific platforms, "Talk to Fireflies" with Perplexity search is available to all Fireflies users—including those on free plans—and works seamlessly across Zoom, Google Meet, and Microsoft Teams. 'Talk to Fireflies lets people search the web in real-time and get answers about the current meeting. For example, a late joiner can ask, 'Hey Fireflies, what key decisions have been made so far?' or a team can find information by asking, 'Hey Fireflies, what are the market growth projections for AI meeting agents?',' said Ramineni. 'This turns Fireflies into your most knowledgeable teammate.' The feature enables practical use cases such as: Special offers for customers As part of the partnership, Fireflies customers on Pro and Business plans can sign up to receive one year of Perplexity Pro at no cost, while Enterprise customers can get three months of Perplexity Enterprise Pro free. Likewise, Perplexity Pro customers can receive three months of Fireflies Business, and Perplexity Enterprise Pro customers can get three months of Fireflies Enterprise. Fireflies customers will have access to these offers within their user dashboard, while Perplexity customers will be able to access these offers via the Perplexity Perks Program. Both companies' existing customers can also look for the offers via email. Looking ahead Fireflies plans to conduct more regular tender offers moving forward, prioritizing active team members and reinforcing a long-term ownership mindset within the company. The company is also building toward a new era of intelligent meeting automation, including AI voice agents that can attend meetings entirely on a user's behalf and enhanced "Talk to Fireflies" capabilities, like the ability to search across a user's entire meeting database in the future. These agentic capabilities mark the next chapter in Fireflies' evolution—transforming how modern teams collaborate, decide, and execute. Availability "Talk to Fireflies" with Perplexity's web search is available to all Fireflies customers as of today. Users can activate the feature in Zoom, Google Meet, and Microsoft Teams meetings by saying "Hey Fireflies" or typing "/ff" in the meeting chat. Expand About helps millions of people unlock the knowledge buried inside conversations every day. Serving 20+ million people and 500,000+ organizations, Fireflies has processed over 2 billion meeting minutes with users at 75% of Fortune 500 companies. The platform provides enterprise-grade security with private storage options and never uses customer meeting data to train its AI models. Backed by Khosla Ventures and Canaan Partners, is a remote-first, global organization employing 100 people across 20+ countries. For more information, visit About Perplexity Perplexity is an AI-powered answer engine that draws from credible sources in real time to accurately answer questions with in-line citations, perform deep research, and more. Founded in 2022, the company's mission is to serve the world's curiosity by bridging the gap between traditional search engines and AI-driven interfaces. Each week, Perplexity answers more than 150 million questions globally. Perplexity is available in the app store and online at
Yahoo
23-04-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
AI note-taking app Fireflies adds new ways to extract insights from meeting notes
Khosla Ventures-backed an AI-powered note-taking app, on Wednesday released a set of domain-specific "mini apps" to extract insights from meeting transcripts automatically. With the widespread availability of automatic speech recognition models and generative AI, meeting intelligence startups like Otter, Read AI, Circleback, Krisp, and Granola have registered impressive growth. Fireflies, similarly, has seen 8x expansion in terms of users and has achieved profitability, according to co-founder and CEO Krish Ramineni. To boost growth further, the startup is releasing over 200 mini apps within its platform for different roles and use cases, including sales, marketing, recruiting, operations and management, customer support, and customer success. There's the BANT Sales App, for example, which will extract details like budget and timelines for sales teams. The Agent Performance Feedback Generator will generate insights for a customer service agent's performance and give coaching tips. Elsewhere, the Product Launch Planning App will craft a product launch strategy. If you have a transcription of a meeting, you could write a prompt to gather some insights using a tool like Circleback. But with its mini apps, Fireflies is looking to make the process easier by removing the need for prompting. "The amount of time it takes to get insights from a conversation after a meeting is a lot," Ramineni told TechCrunch "We want to close that gap with these apps. With these apps, Fireflies can kick these actions off right after the meeting and make people more productive." Users can also choose to send output from these mini apps to other platforms through integrations with Salesforce, HubSpot, Asana, Jira, BambooHR, Greenhouse, Slack, and Microsoft Teams. For example, a meeting host can choose to share a meeting summary with a manager on Slack once the meeting is over. Fireflies says that users can deploy these apps on a per-meeting basis and also create their own apps for more customized outputs. In the future, they will be able to share these apps within a user group, says the company. Beyond mini apps, Fireflies is working to improve meeting knowledge by introducing a meeting brief to inform users about participants and organizations. Ramineni says that the company has also been testing a way to include "digital twins" of users in meetings that can respond to basic queries, similar to implementations apps like Zoom have tested. Sign in to access your portfolio
