Eye-Fi raised $5.5 million in Series A funding by Opus Capital and Shasta Ventures. With the funding, Eye-Fi will enhance operations and product development.  Opus Capital[2] has previously invested in people search engine Spock and Shasta[3] invested in Tumri Inc. about a week ago.

“Digital cameras have made it very easy to take pictures, but it’s a chore to get photos off the camera to a place where you can print or share them,” stated Robert Coneybeer, the managing director for Shasta Ventures “This is a very real problem affecting both consumers who own digital cameras, and companies in the digital photography industry looking to boost profits. We see a huge market opportunity for Eye-Fi because anyone with a Wi-Fi network and a digital camera is a potential customer.”

Eye-Fi has an interesting model because there are many cellphones that have built-in features to transfer pictures online. The way I see it is that they’ll be competing against such features so they need to find a way to “switch” users of such technology.

[1] eye.fi
[2] Pulse 2.0: Opus Capital coverage
[3] Pulse 2.0: Shasta Ventures coverage