Henry Shapiro

Co-founder & COO, Reclaim.ai · 1 appearance on the record.

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Henry Shapiro co-founded Reclaim.ai alongside Patrick Lightbody in 2019, building an AI-driven scheduling assistant that was acquired by Dropbox in August 2024. Prior to founding Reclaim, he held senior product leadership roles, notably serving as Vice President of Product Management at New Relic.

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5 assertions · 2 insights · 2 disclosures · every statement was checked. The predictions and assertions are the 5 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 1 is resolved, and 4 name no date, number or outcome precise enough to check. Everything else (opinions, insights, what ifs, disclosures) can never be settled by the record, so it carries no assessment.

The record, in short

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Their most notable supported claim

Assertion Supported

Reclaim has raised $6.3 million in total funding

“We've raised 6.3 million in total.”

Henry Shapiro Dec 16, 2021 ▶ 6:21 Is Reclaim the Next Calendly? 16,000 Users Keep Using Every Month, up 400% YoY

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What they said9 Episodes1

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Insight

Blocking out entire calendars creates extra Slack communication overhead

“If you block out your whole calendar, You're probably creating even more work for yourself because now you've got like people pinging you on Slack and saying, Hey, there's no time on your calendar. Can I get a few minutes? You know, can you move this thing?”

Henry Shapiro Dec 16, 2021 ▶ 3:49 Is Reclaim the Next Calendly? 16,000 Users Keep Using Every Month, up 400% YoY

Insight

Freemium SaaS must display future pricing so organizations can comfortably standardize

“We put pricing out there because we know that it's really hard for people to standardize on anything if they don't really know what to expect once the thing becomes, you know a paid product.”

Henry Shapiro Dec 16, 2021 ▶ 5:43 Is Reclaim the Next Calendly? 16,000 Users Keep Using Every Month, up 400% YoY

Disclosure

Calendly founder Tope Awotona invested in scheduling competitor Reclaim

“We brought 40 or 50 other strategic angels, including Tope from Calendly into the cap table.”

Henry Shapiro Dec 16, 2021 ▶ 12:42 Is Reclaim the Next Calendly? 16,000 Users Keep Using Every Month, up 400% YoY

Assertion Not checkable as stated

Reclaim runs millions of daily simulations against user calendars

“We run millions of simulations daily against calendars.”

Henry Shapiro Dec 16, 2021 ▶ 4:13 Is Reclaim the Next Calendly? 16,000 Users Keep Using Every Month, up 400% YoY

Assertion Not checkable as stated

Reclaim is used across more than 6,000 companies

“We're being used, as I mentioned, across a little over 6000 companies today, meaning we have, you know, anywhere from, you know, several to dozens to hundreds of users inside of these companies and we're spreading pretty quickly.”

Henry Shapiro Dec 16, 2021 ▶ 5:05 Is Reclaim the Next Calendly? 16,000 Users Keep Using Every Month, up 400% YoY

Assertion Not checkable as stated

Reclaim has approximately two years of financial runway before monetization

“In terms of monetization, you know, we're basically, I'd say a couple of years away from the sort of the edge of the cliff.”

Henry Shapiro Dec 16, 2021 ▶ 5:29 Is Reclaim the Next Calendly? 16,000 Users Keep Using Every Month, up 400% YoY

Assertion Supported

Reclaim has raised $6.3 million in total funding

“We've raised 6.3 million in total.”

Henry Shapiro Dec 16, 2021 ▶ 6:21 Is Reclaim the Next Calendly? 16,000 Users Keep Using Every Month, up 400% YoY

Disclosure

Reclaim raised its initial $1.5M round on a $10M capped note

“I believe it was a capped note and I think the cap was 10. And I think we added a discount as well.”

Henry Shapiro Dec 16, 2021 ▶ 11:53 Is Reclaim the Next Calendly? 16,000 Users Keep Using Every Month, up 400% YoY

Assertion Not checkable as stated

Reclaim has approximately 16,000 monthly active users

“Our, we measure them in monthly active users. I could grab the weekly numbers for you, but our monthly active users today are about 16,000.”

Henry Shapiro Dec 16, 2021 ▶ 15:37 Is Reclaim the Next Calendly? 16,000 Users Keep Using Every Month, up 400% YoY

Appearances (1)

Episode	Date	Speaking time
Is Reclaim the Next Calendly? 16,000 Users Keep Using Every Month, up 400% YoY	Dec 16, 2021	11m

Henry Shapiro

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