Rewatch, a platform that uses AI to optimize virtual meetings, will be integrated with Loom, Atlassian's async video communication tool...Whether you are hosting your meeting via Zoom (ZM), Microsoft Teams (MSFT), or Google Meet (GOOG), the meeting assistant will be automatically added to the invite list.

Atlassian on Thursday announced that it has acquired Rewatch, an AI-powered meeting notetaker, screen recording tool and video hub. The company plans to integrate Rewatch into Loom, the asynchronous video messaging platform it acquired for $975 million last October. But maybe even more importantly, it also plans to integrate it into its recently launched Rovo AI platform so that meeting notes can quickly become Jira issues, for example, and the transcripts become searchable within the overall business context.The two companies did not disclose the price of the acquisition. Back in the heady days of early 2021, when everybody was seemingly looking for better video-centric solutions, Rewatch raised a $20 million Series A round led by Andreessen Horowitz. The company did not raise any additional funding since, according to Crunchbase.As Loom co-founder Joe Thomas told me in an exclusive interview ahead of Thursday’s announcement, Loom already offered an integration with Zoom to record meetings and create transcripts. But that only felt tangential to what the company was trying to do with Loom, he said.“It was worth evolving our platform and bringing in great IP from Rewatch to accelerate our efforts there,” Thomas sad