Note taking service Catch.com secured $7 million in Series A funding led by Excel Venture Management. The company will use the new money to accelerate the rapid growth of its secure notes apps built on its personal content management system for smartphones.
Founded in 2008, San Francisco-based Catch.com competes with Evernote and has more than 13 million downloads on Android phones alone across its range of mobile apps like Catch Notes, Compass and AK Notepad. Catch Notes is their most popular app allowing for quick and easy way to capture, organize and sync notes, images and sounds throughout the day.
Similarly to Evernote, Catch.com also offers an open API and open source examples that help developers integrate notes and note-taking capabilities into their apps. Among existing companies that integrated Catch.com’s API are such apps like Free Dictionary, BBC News, DailyHoroscope and Favorite Recipes.
Commenting on the news, Catch.com’s CEO Steve Brown said: “Excel is an excellent partner for us as they have a tremendous amount of success in developing innovative startups with big ideas. We’re looking forward to working with them at a strategic level to expand our platform that captures and organizes anything you want to keep and remember.”