Facts
- HQ
- Seattle
- Sectors
- Software Development
- Founded
- 2021
- Type
- Corporation Seattle business license
- Employees
- 119
- Registered name
- Read AI Inc Seattle business license
- Stage
- startup
- Total raised
- $81M SEC Form D filings Total of this company's SEC Form D filings
- Last round
- $50M · Sep 2024 SEC Form D
- Founders
- David Shim, Rob Williams, Elliott Waldron
Earley AI Podcast - Episode 88: Digital Twins, Agentic AI, and the Future of Work with David Shim
From Meeting Intelligence to Personal AI: How Digital Twins Are Reshaping How We Work Guest: David Shim, Co-Founder and CEO at Read AI Host: Seth Earley, CEO at Earley Information Science Published on: April 27, 2026 In this episode, Seth Earley speaks with David Shim, Co-Founder and CEO of Read AI, the fastest-growing meeting intelligence platform globally with over 5 million monthly active users. They explore how AI is moving beyond summarization toward recommendation and autonomous action, what it really means to build a digital twin grounded in your actual work history, and why the organizations getting the most from…
2:32 Julie Sandler, Pioneer Square Labs
DARE speaks with Julie Sandler, Managing Director at Pioneer Square Labs and co-founding general partner of PSL's venture capital firm, PSL Ventures. The firm invests in companies all over the Pacific Northwest region. Julie has a long-standing interest in digital solutions serving women and underserved communities. Prior to PSL, Julie was a partner at Madrona Venture Group and managed digital marketing for Amazon’s ebook business worldwide. Julie was named a “Power 100” influencer in the Puget Sound Business Journal, voted “Geek of the Year” by GeekWire, named an AdWeek “Brand Star” for her work with underrepresented entrepreneurs, voted GeekWire’s “Hire…
How AI Is Rewriting the Workweek: David Shim on Productivity & Read AI | The AI Cognitive Shift
Are Mondays becoming easier—and Fridays less frantic—because of AI? In this episode of The AI Cognitive Shift, Alastair Goldfisher sits down with David Shim, CEO and Co-Founder of Read AI, to explore how AI assistants, agentic workflows, and “storage of intelligence” are reshaping the workplace for both knowledge workers and frontline employees. David shares insights from Read AI’s global user base, including why 70% of workers want AI to take on more tasks, how multimodal tools are transforming decision-making, and why AI-driven orchestration may replace prompt-driven workflows altogether. Some highlights from the interview: * How AI reduces “Monday dread” by…
54 - David Shim, Co-Founder & CEO at Read AI
David Shim, CEO of Read AI, shares how AI-powered summaries are transforming meetings, emails, and collaboration. Key Highlights: - David Shim’s Journey: From founding Placed to leading Read AI, an innovative AI-powered communication tool. - The Birth of Read AI: Inspired by inefficient virtual meetings, Read AI aims to streamline collaboration. - Beyond Meetings: Read AI integrates with emails, Slack, and more for cross-platform summaries. - AI’s Role in Contextual Understanding: How AI advancements improve transcription accuracy and actionable insights. - Future of AI in Collaboration: The next phase of AI-driven efficiency and the role of Read AI in upcoming…
Give me 24 mins. I'll teach you how to conquer rejection (by AI CEO David Shim)
In this season opener, Jean and Cherie sit down with David Shim—former CEO of FourSquare, founder of Read AI, and the entrepreneur who sold his startup to Snapchat for $200M. He reveals how he overcame relentless rejections, launched his first business at age six, and why “letting it wash off you” can be a superpower in sales. Stick around for Jean and Cherie’s post-interview debrief, where they break down their biggest takeaways, share personal stories that connect with David’s journey, and offer practical tips you can apply to your own business or career. Don’t miss this eye-opening start to our…
David Shim: Revolutionizing Meetings with AI at Read
David Shim is the Co-Founder and CEO of Read AI. Read AI empowers you to enhance the effectiveness of your meetings. By applying AI and analytics to video conferencing, Read analyzes, prescribes, and prevents bad meetings. Experience the ultimate app for hybrid meetings with Read available on Zoom as part of Essential Apps. Prior to Read AI, David was the CEO of Foursquare. Topics: - Leveraging AI to solve common pain points in virtual meetings - The future of hybrid work and the role of AI in enhancing productivity - The potential of AI to transform meeting culture and team…
Seattle Venture Day 2024 - Highlight Video
Seattle Venture Day is OneSixOne Ventures' flagship Seattle tech event. The 2nd annual event brought together 250+ tech leaders, investors and founders at the Queen Anne Beerhall for networking and some insightful dialogues about build and investing in startups. The event featured a fireside chat with Matt McIlwain, Managing Partner at Madrona (3x Forbes Midas list) in addition to panel discussions featuring other notable speakers such as Geoff Entress (Pioneer Square Labs), Bill McAleer (Voyager Capital), Aviel Ginzburg (Founders Co-op), Kristen Hamilton (Enjoy The Work), Maria Colacurcio (Syndio), Laura Ruderman (Technology Alliance), Kirby Winfield (Ascend VC), Julie Sandler (PSL Ventures)…
Read AI's David Shim on Making Meetings More Efficient With Intelligent Agents
In this episode, Madrona Managing Director Matt McIlwain hosts David Shim, founder and CEO of Read AI. These two have known each other for over two decades, having worked together at Farecast and then Placed, which David founded in 2011. They came together again in 2021, when David started Read AI, which delivers AI solutions that make meetings, emails, and messages more valuable to teams with AI-generated summaries, transcripts, and highlights. In this episode, David and Matt examine how leveraging emerging technologies, getting engagement from multiple members of your ecosystem in the early days, and learning your way into a…
Think Tank Ep. 4 - Building Centers for Digital Innovation w/ Julie Sandler of Pioneer Square Labs
What happens when you bring together two bright minds to tackle health care’s biggest challenges? This isn’t your typical brainstorm among healthcare experts. This is a supercharged session between two minds that work in similar, but very disparate industries. Our guests talk about a broad challenge they face and discuss how they’ve approached the problem in their respective fields. The magic? To see how their approaches to a challenge can be applied to another industry to spark new avenues of innovation. This series is all about creating synergy between two different, but very like-minded healthcare and tech experts. In our…
Fireside Chat with Julie Sandler
Julie Sandler from Pioneer Square Labs and Josh Williams from Seattle Bank discuss trends in startup financing, angel investing and venture capital.
Julie Sandler
Julie is a managing director at Pioneer Square Labs, and runs the firm's venture capital arm, PSL Ventures. Prior to PSL, Julie was a partner at Madrona Venture Group, where she led the firm’s investments in Integris, Poppy, and Julep. In 2013, Julie launched the Seattle Entrepreneurial Women’s Network, an informal forum for women entrepreneurs and startup executives to connect in the Greater Seattle area. She currently resides in Seattle with her husband, Alejandro, and their toddler son and newborn daughter. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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David Shim Founder, Co-Founder, CEO, Executive Officer, Director
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Kate Reinmiller Executive, Vice President of Operations, Vice President Operations
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