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  "markdown": "Co-founder and CEO.\n\n- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/alihaghani\n- X: https://x.com/iAligator\n\n## What Ali builds\n\n- [Circleback](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/circleback.md), graded B, 67.6/100, in Meeting capture \u0026 meeting infrastructure. Circleback is an AI meeting notetaker that records online and in-person meetings by bot, desktop or mobile app, and exposes notes, transcripts, action items, recordings, people and companies through a REST API, a remote MCP server and a CLI. Co-founder and CEO, researched 2026-11-06.\n\n## Works with\n\n- [Kevin Jacyna](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/kevin-jacyna/), Co-founder and CPO\n\n## Backed by\n\n- [Y Combinator](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/y-combinator/)\n- [Neo](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/neo/)\n- [Rebel Fund](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/rebel-fund/)\n- [Pioneer Fund](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/pioneer-fund/)\n- [Transpose Platform](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/transpose-platform/)\n- [Kulveer Taggar](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/kulveer-taggar/)\n- [Oliver Jung](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/oliver-jung/)\n- [JJ Fliegelman](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/jj-fliegelman/)\n- [Rich Aberman](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/rich-aberman/)\n- [Jason Freedman](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/jason-freedman/)\n\n## Questions\n\n### Who is Ali Haghani?\n\nAli Haghani is co-founder and CEO.\n\n### What does Circleback (Circleback AI, Inc.) make?\n\nAnchor Terminal lists Circleback from Circleback (Circleback AI, Inc.). Circleback is an AI meeting notetaker that records online and in-person meetings by bot, desktop or mobile app, and exposes notes, transcripts, action items, recordings, people and companies through a REST API, a remote MCP server and a CLI.\n\n### Who has invested in Circleback (Circleback AI, Inc.)?\n\nThe sources our research read name Y Combinator, Neo, Rebel Fund, Pioneer Fund, Transpose Platform, Kulveer Taggar, Oliver Jung, JJ Fliegelman, Rich Aberman and Jason Freedman.\n\n### How are Ali's tools graded?\n\nCircleback is graded B, 67.6 out of 100, on Anchor Terminal's benchmark, which scores every listing against the same checklist.\n\n## Sources\n\n- https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/circleback\n- https://circleback.ai/blog/seed-funding\n- https://circleback.ai/terms\n- https://circleback.ai/.well-known/security.txt\n- https://www.cs.ubc.ca/news/2024/03/technology-accelerator-invests-500k-cs-alums-start\n\nThese are the people building the tools we list, named for their public role in the company or project behind a listing, from public pages, with the date it was researched. They don't work for Anchor Terminal (our own team is on the about page, /about/#author). We show public roles, public profiles and what the listing pages show, nothing private. If a page is about you, link your account from it to write the about and set the links yourself. For a photo, a correction or to have a page removed, write to privacy@anchorterminal.com.\n",
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