By Chris Traganos, Senior Web Developer at Evernote We’ve held a number of successful hackathons around the world and recently hosted our biggest one ever in São Paulo, Brazil. Teaming up with Samsung and Wayra Incubator, we challenged developers and designers to build apps that would work on the Evernote platform over the course of [...]
I’m happy to say that we’ve just closed an $85 million round of funding. This round is led by London-based AGC Equity Partners/m8 Capital with participation from Valiant Capital Partners and existing investors including funds and accounts managed by T.Rowe Price Associates, Inc. Seventy five percent of this money comes in the form of a [...]
On November 15, I hosted the first Evernote Talks event. This is our new series where we get together with Evernote users and fans and talk about the core elements of the Evernote experience. For this first event, the focus was on design. It was a good time to cover this topic, since we’ve just [...]
I am really excited about the newest release of Skitch for Mac, but troubled by some of the negative reaction from some of our oldest and most loyal users. After thinking about this for the past few weeks, I’ve come to the realization that we’ve underestimated how deeply ingrained Skitch had become in many people’s [...]
We spend a lot of our time improving our products to make them easier to use and more friendly. Now we’re applying that same thinking to our Terms of Service, Privacy Policy and legal relationship with our users. On December 4th, we will launch a new Legal Page at Evernote.com that will collect the important [...]
It’s been a busy few months for Evernote. We have new clients for Windows 8 and Windows Desktop. Our dramatically upgraded Mac client just went into limited beta. A new iOS client is coming shortly. And there are new versions of Skitch for Windows (desktop | Windows 8) and Android. Evernote partners have also recently [...]
Part of my job at Evernote is helping developers who are building new apps and want to integrate those apps into Evernote. That’s what my “platform advocate” title means. But another cool part of my job is scouring the startup landscape for new ideas. Every startup tells a story, after all, and most of them [...]
ETC 2012 was pretty great. The day was broken up into two series —Developer and Life — and all attendees watched keynote presentations and our DevCup finalist pitches. You can read the full recap of the event here. If you missed any or all of the conference, you can now watch all of it! That’s [...]
Our second annual Evernote Trunk Conference has come and gone. This year’s event was exactly twice as big as last year’s, drawing over 800 attendees to the San Francisco Design Center. ETC was packed with big announcements, Devcup pitches, user sessions, and lots of partners and Ambassadors. We even had a weekend full of fun [...]
Over the past few months we have been busy moving the Evernote service to a new datacenter. This new facility is with a top tier service provider and gives us plenty of room for future growth. Not only that, but it also means that your Evernote experience will be faster and more reliable. Most of [...]