en.Wedoany.com Reported - Pocket, a Y Combinator-backed startup specializing in meeting transcription devices, announced it has secured $11 million in funding from Accel, Y Combinator, and ElevenLabs CEO Mati Staniszewski. Since its launch last year, the company has sold over 130,000 units of its $129 credit-card-sized device, which attaches to the back of a phone and offers unlimited recording, transcription, and to-do list features without a subscription.

Unlike AI devices such as Rabbit or Humane, companies focused on meeting recording and transcription have made progress. While smartphones paired with note-taking apps can perform similar tasks, startups like Plaud, Mobvoi, Anker, Viaim, and Vibe have entered this market. Pocket aims to stand out through its design, packaging, and pricing advantages.

Users can attach the disc-shaped device to the back of their phone and start recording during meetings, with the device capturing and transcribing conversations. The companion mobile app supports generating meeting summaries, asking questions to an AI assistant, creating mind maps, and converting text into different templates. Basic transcription features are provided free with the device, while the company also sells a $200 annual plan that includes unlimited AI summaries, AI assistant queries, daily highlights, and file attachments.

Accel partner Cecilia Wang stated that lawyers, salespeople, doctors, real estate agents, construction workers, and students are using Pocket to record on the go, offline, and in the field. Users can not only stay focused on the present without being distracted by note-taking but also capture more information and insights that would otherwise be lost. Over time, the accumulation of these insights becomes highly valuable, with users' conversations and thoughts all centralized in one place.

Pocket was co-founded by Akshay Narisetti and Gabriel Dymowski. Narisetti was a founding member of the competitive note-taking startup Omi, while Dymowski previously founded a blockchain-based document management startup. Narisetti told TechCrunch that existing meeting note-taking tools are mostly designed for online conversations, lacking tools focused on real-life conversations, and that AI needs more offline context to better serve users.

For enterprise customers, Pocket offers custom workflow management, webhook support, and integrations with applications such as Google Calendar, OneDrive, Google Drive, Obsidian, Claude, and Cursor. The company also provides a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server for connecting its AI assistant to other databases.

Pocket aims to help users automate tasks such as drafting emails, updating CRMs, and creating action items from meetings. The company faces competition from software vendors like Granola, Zoom, Fireflies, Otter, and Read AI. However, device-first companies like Plaud (which expects to achieve $100 million in annual revenue through software sales) are also building enterprise capabilities and offering desktop applications for digital meetings.