Evernote Reaches Two Million Lifeloggers, Half Of Them Are On Th. The idea of a life recorder that captures every moments of your life on video is still a bit of a tech fantasy, but an early version of the life recorder already exists.
It is called Evernote, the popular iPhone (and now Android) app which lets you record your memories by snapping geo-tagged photos, making voice notes, or just text notes and making it easy to search through them. Evernote does not yet support video recording other than as an attachment (for premium subscribers), but when that becomes more practical it will.
“Evernote is definitely positioned to be the lifelogging tool of choice,” says CEO Phil Libin. “That ambient video capture was my original plan for Evernote—always recording, not storing, you bookmark it—that is exactly what we want to do.” Next year Evernote will introduce voice search, which will be a big step towards that ultimate vision (if you can search audio, you can search through what was said in videos). Looking at new users per day is more instructive. Productivity App Evernote Gets Another $85M, 75% In Secondary Financing, Led By London’s ACG Equity Partners/m8 Capital. Evernote, the personal data and productivity app that now has over 45 million users, is today announcing it has raised another $85 million, with 75% of that, $63.75 million, in the form of a secondary investment.
We have heard that the raise was looking to be done on a $2 billion valuation. This round of financing, which brings the total raised by Evernote to $251 million, bring two new investors to the company. AGC Equity Partners, via its majority-owned, mobile-focused affiliate m8 Capital, is leading the round; and Valiant Capital, which also invests in Dropbox, is participating, along with existing investors T. Rowe Price. In a blog post announcing the news, Phil Libin writes that this round wasn’t raised because it needed cash. “This gives some liquidity to shareholders and and rotates out shorter-term horizon investors for longer term horizon investors,” Libin told me in an interview earlier today. This is not the first secondary sale in Evernote. Evernote CEO Phil Libin in No Rush for an IPO. Evernote By The Numbers: 34M Users, 1.4M Paying, And The Relative Merits Of Different Platforms. Phil Libin, the CEO of note taking app Evernote, is sitting on a $1 billion valuation and plans for an IPO, and while it may be a while yet before it follows through on going public , today at LeWeb in London he revealed new numbers for just how much the service is getting used, and how much money different platforms are bringing into the pot.
He said that the company now has 34 million users overall across all platforms — mobile and web — with the number of paying users now at 1.4 million: that’s a significant rise on the 25 million overall and 1 million paying users Evernote last reported as recently as May, when it announced its $70 million round. He then did something a little atypical for a startup,which can be cagey about how much money it makes when the chief aim is to scale as much as possible. He talked about average revenues per user, on an annual basis, based on different platforms.
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