LiveMinutes Raises $1.4M Seed Round For Its Real-Time Collaboration Service, Announces Partnership With Evernote Real-time team collaboration service LiveMinutes today announced that it has closed a $1.4 million seed round. The round was led by Great Oaks Venture Capital – a VC firm that previously backed the likes of Trulia and OkCupid — with participation from New World Ventures, former Facebook business development head Ali Rosenthal and Match CEO Sam Yagan. As the company’s founder and CEO Kemal El Moujahid told me earlier this week, LiveMinutes plans to use this money to extend its marketing efforts and to implement more partnerships with industry players. “We also have a really exciting roadmap we want to implement with regards to real-time collaboration,” El Moujahid told me. LiveMinutes launched about 18 months ago as a web-conferencing service with a focus on document sharing. Since then, it has morphed into a fully featured collaboration service that still includes live video conferencing, as well as real-time document and to-do list editing, image annotations and some basic sketching tools. The product today feels a bit more like a lightweight version of Podio and less than a video conferencing service, though videoconferencing is still available (and uses WebRTC on Chrome). The company also today announced a partnership with Evernote Business. Evernote users can now import their notes to LiveMinutes with just a click and then annotate it collaboratively — a feature Evernote itself doesn’t currently offer. “LiveMinutes adds real-time collaboration to Evernote’s business collaboration features,” says Rafe Needleman, Evernote’s Director of Developer Relations, in a statement today. “It lets colleagues edit notes in real-time, host conference calls, and save everything back on Evernote to get the most of Evernote.” To annotate images, LiveMinutes is also considering an integration with Evernote’s Skitch. As El Moujahid told me that, in the early stages of collaboration tools, we had to deal with real-time native desktop clients like Skype and asynchronous web-based tools like Basecamp, which led to very disjointed conversations. Today, thanks to HTML5 and WebRTC, we can bring all of these features together into one service. LiveMinutes wants to be at the forefront of this movement. bit.ly/136bWhL tcrn.ch/12fzIhk Source: TechCrunch
Posted on: Tue, 23 Jul 2013 15:14:58 +0000
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