Get the latest noteworthy news.

Evernote raises $10 million investment

November 16th, 2009

I’m very happy to report that Evernote just raised $10 million in our “B” round! The lead investor is Morgenthaler Ventures, one of the deans of Silicon Valley venture capital. Troika Dialog and DOCOMO Capital, our “A” round investors, participated as well.

What will we do with the money? We’re going to invest it into making our product better: more platforms, more features, and more polish (we’re working on Polish, too, along with Swedish, Japanese and a dozen other languages). We want Evernote to be your trusted, permanent and ubiquitous electronic memory. This investment gives us the runway to get there.

I’d like to thank our team, who’ve worked amazingly hard to build one of the brightest companies on the Internet today; our investors, for giving us their trust; and, most of all, our awesome community of users. Your voice has helped guide our product, and your enthusiasm for Evernote was a critical factor in our successful fundraising.

Thanks for finding us and thanks for sticking with us. We’re glad you’re along for the ride!

Food Month Tasting Event with Foodzie

October 16th, 2009

Do we have an exciting Food Month treat for you! Evernote has teamed up with the amazingly great Foodzie.com for an exclusive San Francisco tasting event for six lucky Evernoters.

What is Foodzie?

Foodzie is a marketplace devoted to small and artisanal food producers from around the US. They carry an obscene amount of deliciousness (just wait till you see the food photos). Best off all, they help you discover locally-made foods that you never knew existed.

READ ENTIRE POST »

Welcome to Evernote’s Food Month!

October 1st, 2009

Mmmmm, food. Mouth-watering, yummy, delicious food. For many of us at Evernote (and many of you out there), food is much more than a necessity—it’s a hobby, a job, a fascination, a passion, and maybe even a bit of an obsession.

If you’re anything like me, then food-related thoughts enter your mind with embarrassing frequency. From recipes to restaurant reviews to gadgets to cookbooks, it seems there’s always something worth throwing into Evernote for later. Without exaggeration, Evernote is the greatest food companion I’ve ever had (sorry friends and family). As it turns out, I’m not the only one who feels this way.

Welcome to Food Month

And so begins Evernote’s Food Month, our exploration of all the many ways gastronomy and Evernote intersect. Throughout October, we will bring you user stories, videos, tips, community projects, giveaways, and tons of other great stuff all around the topic of food and Evernote.

READ ENTIRE POST »

Write to us in your language

September 16th, 2009

We’ve said it once and we’ll say it again, we want there to be an Evernote in your language. To make that happen, we recently launched a community translation project to translate Evernote into French, German, Italian, and Spanish. This has been going really well, and now we’re ready to start the next part of the project: optimizing our handwriting recognition for these new languages.

READ ENTIRE POST »

Help Evernote get a speaking spot at SXSW 2010

August 28th, 2009

We recently proposed a panel for next year’s SXSW (South by Southwest) Interactive Festival and we’d love your vote. Here’s the panel description:

Preserving the You: Creating Memories Beyond the Chatter

We want to discuss how mobile and cloud-based technologies have paved the way not only for increased communication via Facebook, Twitter, and the like, but also for new ways of preserving our memories and individuality.

These days, each of us is continually involved in increasingly public conversations with friends, colleagues, acquaintances, and complete strangers. However, we all simultaneously live within our own worlds–ones consisting of delicate webs of experiences, inspirations, ideas, and interests. In our proposed SXSW panel, we will talk about how, in the face of the lightning-fast, community-driven landscape of Web 2.0, there exists a parallel world of technologies aimed at helping to capture and preserve who we are as individuals.

We will discuss the ways in which lessons learned from social media–availability, access, collaboration–can be applied to personally relevant content in an effort to preserve the YOU in the face of the WE.

Vote!

If you like our panel idea, please head on over to the Panel Picker page and vote for us. Voting closes on September 3rd. Thanks!

The New Evernote Video: Evernote to the Rescue

August 19th, 2009

Check out our shiny, new Evernote video.

What do you think?

We Want to Speak Your Language

July 29th, 2009

If you took a map of the world and threw a dart at it, you would likely hit an area with an Evernote community. We’re thrilled to see just how widespread Evernote use has become over the past year, and we know that we’re only scratching the surface.

Starting today, we embark on an ambitious plan to make Evernote accessible to more people in more places. Say bonjour to the Evernote Translation Program.

Que?

Evernote is currently available in two languages: English and Russian. By year’s end, we plan on having Evernote versions in French, German, Italian, and Spanish. For a company of our size this is a tremendous task, so we need your help.

How you can help

It’s easy. We have deployed a simple web-based tool that allows you to translate as much, or as little, of Evernote as you like. Want to translate a single line of text? Great. Want to translate the entire Evernote for Mac client? Go for it. The tool will let you do all of this, and also edit existing translations. There’s no commitment and no minimum. We appreciate any help that you provide.

Why did we choose community translation?

Our goal is to make Evernote accessible to as many people as possible. We chose the four languages above as a start (and a test). If this process proves successful, more languages will follow. Ultimately, using this translation method allows us to focus our very limited resources on the most important task of all: making Evernote better.

We’ll do our part

Community translation is just one step in the process of launching Evernote in different countries. While you help us translate, our researchers and engineers will be busy making our image recognition and other technologies ready for their international debut.

Get started

To get started, visit the Evernote Translation Program home »

Danke schoen!