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Building for the Future of Interaction

Together with Read, you can have better interactions – starting with your next meeting.

A Webex meeting emphasizing the Read Dashboard App being opened through the Apps tab.

Read's mission is to make every human interaction meaningfully better, smarter, and happier starting with the more than 500 million people worldwide using a video conferencing platform.

3MM+

meeting minutes measured

In less than six months, Read has identified several opportunities to improve your meetings.

1 in 5

video conference calls are bad

Benchmarks and real-time data are needed to understand how to make meetings better.

Read Benchmarks

Our Story

Co-Founders David, Rob, and Elliott saw an opportunity to usher in the next evolution of video conferencing by augmenting interactions with measurement. By making real-time sentiment and engagement metrics available to all meeting attendees, Read encourages collaboration toward a shared goal of a better meeting experience.

Read was founded with a privacy and transparency first approach to measurement, aligning with the founder's past experiences at Placed, Snapchat, and Foursquare. Read Dashboard, the company's first product, encourages more authentic interactions and is available for free on leading video conferencing platforms.

Meet the Founders

David Shim

Co-Founder, CEO

Former CEO of Foursquare, Founder and CEO of Placed (sold to Snapchat in 2017).

Rob Williams

Co-Founder, VP of Engineering

Former Senior Director of Engineering at Foursquare and Placed.

Elliott Waldron

Co-Founder, VP of Data Science

Former VP of Data Science at Foursquare and Placed.

Investors

Madrona Venture Group

PSL Ventures

Strategic Angels

Shane AtchisonCEO, Wunderman

Oren EtzioniCEO, AI2

David JoergFormer Board of Directors, Placed

Nima Khajehnouri
VP of Engineering, Snapchat

Imran Khan
CEO, Verishop

Brian Ma
Founder, Divvy

Bill RichterCEO, Qumulo

Peter SellisVP of Product, Snapchat

+ Other Strategic Angels

News

Latest Press Releases

Read Introduces AI to Convert a 60 Minute Meeting into a 2 Minute Highlight Reel

Read AI introduces Highlights, through which a 60-minute recording of a meeting is automatically converted into a 2-minute video highlight reel. By integrating large language models with video, Read identifies the most important moments in a meeting based on not just the words, but the reaction from the participants.

AI is Meant to Be Shared | New Features from Read

Read has introduced more robust report sharing that eliminates the meeting to talk about the meeting, by delivering concise insights that can be consumed in less than 2 minutes to attendees and interested parties.

January 4, 2023

Read Named to Zoom Curated Essential Apps

Read’s Meeting Tools & Metrics (formerly Meeting Navigator for Zoom) continues to be popular among Zoom customers and featured on the Zoom App Marketplace. Today, Read is excited to announce that we’ve been selected by Zoom Video Communications, Inc. to be featured in Zoom curated Essential Apps.

Latest Coverage

All Press Coverage

January 4, 2023

Zoom

Take your meetings to the next level with Zoom Curated Essential Apps

January 4, 2023

TechCrunch

Read, which lets you measure how well a meeting is going, is now a Zoom Essential App

TechRadar

It's official, video meetings really do suck

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