Circleback

About Circleback

Products by Circleback

All products by Circleback reviewed by our AI panel of experts.

CirclebackAI Meeting Assistants

AI meeting notes and action items, automatically.

From $21/mo6.9/10

How Our Review Panel Scores Circleback

Six independent reviewer personalities assessed Circleback's product on their own terms. They disagreed by 1.6 points — The Skeptic was the hardest to convince, The Domain Strategist the most positive.

Averaged across 1 reviewed product in our catalog. Scores are out of 10.

Competitive Landscape

Who Circleback competes with, and how they differ.

Granola8.2/10

Granola requires the user to jot rough notes during the call which it then enhances afterward, versus Circleback's fully automated zero-manual-note approach.

1 product reviewed on TopReviewed

Fireflies.ai7.9/10

Fireflies leans into enterprise conversation-intelligence and analytics across large call volumes, whereas Circleback focuses on per-meeting action items and downstream automations (CRM updates, task creation).

1 product reviewed on TopReviewed

Otter.ai7.5/10

Otter is built around live in-call transcription and cross-platform team collaboration; Circleback differentiates on triggering automations from what was discussed rather than transcript accuracy.

1 product reviewed on TopReviewed

Fathom8.0/10

Fathom is a free, individual-rep-focused Zoom-native recorder; Circleback targets teams with cross-platform capture (Zoom, Meet, Teams, in-person) plus workflow automation.

1 product reviewed on TopReviewed

tl;dv7.9/10

tl;dv centers on video-timestamped highlight clips for sales coaching and enablement teams, while Circleback centers on note synthesis and automated follow-up actions.

1 product reviewed on TopReviewed

Company Timeline

Key milestones in Circleback's history, with sources.

1. Nov 28, 2024Milestone

   Reported cash-flow positive with thousands of paying customers

   TechCrunch reported Circleback was cash-flow positive with thousands of paying customers on primarily organic growth, and that the founders had turned down additional investment to avoid dilution.

   finance.yahoo.com
2. Nov 26, 2024Funding

   Seed -- $2.5M led by Y Combinator, Rebel Fund, Pioneer Fund, Transpose Platform

   Circleback raised a $2.5 million seed round from Y Combinator, Rebel Fund, Pioneer Fund, Transpose Platform and angel investors including Kulveer Taggar and Oliver Jung.

   trysignalbase.com
3. 2024Funding

   Admitted to Y Combinator Winter 2024 batch with $500K investment

   Y Combinator invested $500,000 in Circleback as part of its Winter 2024 (W24) batch.

   cs.ubc.ca
4. 2023Founded

   Founded in San Francisco by Ali Haghani and Kevin Jacyna

   Circleback was founded by ex-Stripe engineer Ali Haghani and ex-Tableau engineer Kevin Jacyna, both University of British Columbia alumni, to build an AI meeting-notes and workflow-automation platform.

   ycombinator.com
5. 2023Funding

   Received $125K pre-seed from Neo Accelerator

   Circleback's founders received $125,000 through the AI-focused Neo Accelerator before joining Y Combinator.

   cs.ubc.ca