Bubbles
San Francisco, US · 89 employees on LinkedIn · 12 known investors
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Bubbles is an AI meeting assistant that automatically joins calls to record, transcribe, and generate summaries and action items, integrating with calendars and meeting platforms. It also supports asynchronous work through screen and camera recordings, screenshots, and video comments for team collaboration.
Also known as Bubbles (usebubbles.com) · usebubbles
Founders & leadership
Investors · 12
Also in the syndicate · 5
Funding
SEC filings, press & company announcements- Undisclosed amountseedMay 2022
468 Ventures, Bain Capital, Craft Ventures, Khosla Ventures, Streamlined Ventures
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Source: company announcements and press reports — follow each round's link for the claim.
Company profile
researched Aug 2026Bubbles is a collaboration platform combining an AI meeting notetaker with asynchronous video messaging. Once a user connects a Google or Microsoft calendar, the Bubbles Notetaker automatically joins scheduled calls on supported platforms — Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, GoTo Meeting and Webex — to record and transcribe them and produce AI summaries and action items, which are delivered by email, in the workspace, and on the corresponding Google Calendar event. Recordings are stored in a searchable workspace that can be organized and shared with teammates or external guests.
The second half of the product is asynchronous communication: users record screen, camera and voice messages, or capture full-page screenshots, from a browser extension or the web app, and collaborators reply with threaded text, video and audio comments anchored to specific timestamps in a video or specific areas of an image. Guests can participate without signing up or installing software. Use cases the company promotes include design and document feedback, project check-ins, resolving ad-hoc questions without scheduling a call, and user-research synthesis for designers. The platform lists more than 200 integrations along with a public API, and the company states it holds SOC 2 Type II certification.
Founding story
Founder and CEO Tom Medema traces the idea to his time as CTO at Bloomon, a Netherlands-based flower delivery company, where from 2014 he managed a distributed engineering team using Slack, Zoom and Google Docs and concluded that those tools produced scheduling overhead, constant notifications and miscommunication rather than productivity. He began work on Bubbles in 2019, framing the product as software built by remote workers for remote workers to enable deep work and reduce burnout.
Business model
Software-as-a-service sold on a self-serve subscription basis, with a free tier and paid per-seat plans; the company also markets to enterprise customers and offers an API.
Freemium subscription. The Basic plan is free but caps recordings at 30 minutes and five meeting recordings per week, locks recordings after two weeks and limits users to two channels. Pro Teams costs $12 per member per month billed yearly ($15 monthly) for workspaces of three or more members, and Pro Personal costs $18 per member per month billed yearly ($22 monthly) for one- or two-member workspaces; paid plans add unlimited recording length and volume, AI transcripts, Notetaker join and sharing controls, custom Notetaker branding and unlimited channels. Every new workspace begins with a 14-day Pro trial.
Traction
Reported roughly 20,000 monthly active users around the May 2022 seed announcement, growing to a stated 100,000+ users on the company's site. Testimonials come from practitioners at Twitch, ClickUp, Google, SurveySparrow, Mediflix and Bardeen, and the company says it serves both startups and enterprises.
Latest developments
Recent site content emphasizes the AI Notetaker, chat with meetings, automatic summaries delivered to calendar events, a 200+ integration catalog and API, and SOC 2 Type II certification, alongside the tiered Pro Teams and Pro Personal pricing. The company continued publishing product and educational blog posts through July 2025.
▸Full profile — market position, technology, go-to-market, geography, history, risks & controversies
Market position
Bubbles positions itself as an async-first alternative to live meetings — described in press coverage as an 'anti-Zoom' video messaging platform — and now also competes in the AI meeting-notetaker category. Coverage at the time of its seed round placed it alongside other async video messaging products and noted Slack's Clips feature as an incumbent-led alternative.
The product pairs automated meeting capture with threaded, time-coded and point-to-annotate replies on recordings and images, so follow-ups happen on the recording itself rather than in another call. Onboarding is designed to be minimal — setup in under two minutes, browser-extension recording in one click, and guest participation without signup, install, passwords or usernames.
Technology
AI-generated meeting summaries, action items and transcripts; a bot notetaker that auto-joins calendar-linked meetings on Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, GoTo Meeting and Webex; browser-based screen, camera and voice recording via a Chrome extension; full-page screenshots; threaded video/audio/text commenting with timestamp and image-region anchoring; chat over meeting content; calendar sync; 200+ workflow integrations and a public API. The company has stated plans for semantic search and topic modeling across conversations. It reports SOC 2 Type II certification.
Go-to-market
Product-led, self-serve growth: a free plan and 14-day Pro trial, a one-click Chrome extension, viral distribution through recordings shared with meeting invitees and guests who need no account, calendar-based onboarding, segment landing pages (e.g. for designers), SEO-oriented blog content on meeting and recording how-tos, and integrations with existing productivity tools. Support is offered 24/7 by email and a public Slack community, and seed proceeds were earmarked for customer acquisition.
Distributed and hybrid knowledge-work teams, including startups and enterprises; the company markets specifically to designers and user researchers, product and operations teams, freelancers and small duos, and to users who collaborate with external clients, vendors, contractors and agencies.
Geography
Headquartered in San Francisco, California, with a remote-oriented user base described as global.
History
Work on Bubbles began in 2019. In May 2022 the company announced an $8.5 million seed round and reported eight employees and roughly 20,000 monthly active users, with the product then free and monetization planned via a team tier with folders and granular access control. Since then Bubbles has launched paid Pro Teams and Pro Personal subscriptions, added the AI Notetaker with automated recording, transcription, summaries and action items, meeting chat, and a broad integration catalog, and its site cites more than 100,000 users. The company continues to publish product and how-to content through 2025 and runs a hosted help center.
Risks & controversies
Coverage at the time of the seed round identified user buy-in as the central challenge for asynchronous video tools — recording a video is more effortful than sending a chat message — and noted that the product was then free with monetization still to be proven. The category includes multiple competing async video startups and a feature-level offering from Slack, and the AI notetaker segment is crowded. Automatic recording and transcription of meetings also carries data-security and privacy obligations, which the company addresses with SOC 2 Type II certification and configurable join/sharing controls.
Compiled by commissioned research from 8 cited public sources — announcements, filings, and press listed under research sources below.
Key figures
latest reportedCompany-reported or press-reported figures, each dated to when it was claimed — not independently audited.
Timeline · 3
launches, deals, and filingsThe company states on its website that Bubbles is SOC 2 Type II certified.
Bubbles announced $8.5 million in seed funding from Khosla Ventures, Craft Ventures, Streamlined Ventures, 468 Ventures/468 Capital and Bain Capital, plus angel investors, to expand its user base and add async collaboration features.
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At the time of the seed announcement the company had eight employees and stated plans to double the size of the team by the end of 2022.
Dated company events from announcements, filings, and press; legal rows summarize public dockets and regulator releases.
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Frequently asked questions
- What does Bubbles do?
- Bubbles is an AI meeting notetaker and async video collaboration tool for distributed teams.
- Who are Bubbles's investors?
- Bubbles's investors include Chapter One, Worklife Ventures, 468 Capital, Bain Capital, Craft Ventures, Khosla Ventures, Streamlined Ventures.
- Where is Bubbles headquartered?
- Bubbles is headquartered in San Francisco, US.