Livescribe, Inc.
Pulse Smartpen & Livescribe Paper-Based Computing Platform
- Conference
- DEMO 08
- Market Segment
- Consumer Devices
- Funding Details
- $23.2 million in Series A funding from VantagePoint Venture Partners in January 2008.
- Competitors
- No direct competitors. The Pulse Smartpen from Livescribe represents the first entry in a new product category.
- Product Description
- Livescribe’s Pulse Smartpen is a computer in a pen that records and links audio to what users write on paper. Users can tap on their notes to replay recorded audio. Notes and drawings with audio can be transferred to a PC for backup, search and replay. Users can share their notes online or email them as interactive movies. Software developer tools make it easy to create applications and content for the mobile computing platform.
- Market Opportunity
- The Livescribe computing platform enables a broad range of new applications in personal productivity, learning, communication and self expression. The Pulse Smartpen is ideally suited for students, journalists, doctors, consultants – anyone who works with pen and paper. Livescribe is initially targeting the U.S. college market of 17.1 million students.
- DEMO Says
- Nearly a year ago, Livescribe gave the world a sneak peek at its Smartpen…and that’s just about all anyone saw. We’ve brought Livescribe to DEMO to take a second look at this product, which is more than ink capture. Livescribe is a content creation tool. It is a platform for animated story telling. It is a marketplace for curriculum. It is ideas come alive.
- Contact
- Karen Lee
- klee@livescribe.com
- Company Address
-
7677 Oakport St., 12th Floor
Oakland, CA 94621 - Primary Phone
- 510-777-0071
- Primary Fax
- 510-777-0159
- URL
- www.livescribe.com
- Corporate Officers
- Jim Marggraff, CEO & Founder Sasha Pesic, COO & General Counsel Byron Connell, CMO Ken Cucarola, CFO