Evernote is an online note-taking service that works on the web and mobile devices. This morning the company plans to announce a $10 million Series B round of funding, giving them over $16 million in total funding. The lead investor was Morgenthaler Ventures. Evernote makes money from paid subscribers. The company has close to 2 million users which is double what they had last year. All of the funding will be going towards the product including new platforms and new language support.
Evernote is a storage service where users can clip notes from the web, take snapshots, record audio, and search on the computer for that saved information. Information that is taken can be stored on Evernote’s cloud servers. Evernote has software available for the PC, Mac, iPhone, Windows Mobile, the Web, and now they have a BlackBerry application available.
To use the software, BlackBerry users can navigate around the interface using the track ball. At the bottom of the application is a search box that allows you to find notes by tags. The Menu button allows you to view recently created notes, pending notes that are uploading, and the ability to activate the GPS. Playing back voice notes requires opening the BlackBerry media player.
The application is free, but subscriptions costs $5 per month for 40MB. The application works with the Bold, Storm, and the Curve 8900. It is currently only available through BlackBerry App World. Evernote raised $4.5 million this past January.
Evernote is a web startup that enables users to take clippings of photos, text, and images and make them into notes. So if you see something you like on the web, iPhone, or Windows Mobile device you can store it on Evernote. The company closed $4.5 million in funding from Russian investment company Troika Dialog on December 31.
Phil Libin, CEO of Evernote stated that “The rumors that circulated in the beginning of December were very premature—we still had unresolved issues and the closing was far from guaranteed [TechCrunch].” Evernote has had about 630,000 registrations since last year. Evernote wants to close 2009 with 2 million users.
When storing notes on Evernote, they can be accessible anywhere despite the platform. So if you own a Mac and a Windows Mobile phone, you can store the exact same files when you login. Let’s say you edit a PowerPoint file on the Mac and click save, it gets synched back to Evernote and the updated document can be downloaded again from Windows Mobile. The doc sync is what costs money, but everything else is free. The doc sync feature costs $5/month.
