AI Notetaker reaches 130k units! Take notes on ANY conversation

Pocket, an AI-powered note taking company, raised $11 million led by Accel with participation from Y Combinator and ElevenLabs CEO Mati Staniszewski, the company announced on Sunday. In its first year in market, the company has sold over 130,000 of its $129 hardware puck which attaches to the back of your phone and captures conversations offline with free unlimited transcriptions.

For $200/year, users can get access to AI summaries, daily briefs, searchable conversations, and ask their AI assistant questions about past conversations. It pairs with your phone over Bluetooth and can be used in places where Zoom bots and laptops fall short like construction sites, doctors’ offices, courts, business dinners, and lectures. It integrates with other products like Claude, Cursor, Google Calendar, Obsidian, and comes with an MCP server which allows AI agents to ask questions about past conversations.

1Why offline recording is the differentiator

In a space filled with AI notetakers like Granola, Otter, Zoom, Fireflies, and Read AI, most products are designed for online meetings. Users send a bot link and the bot comes into the meeting and transcribes it. This model breaks down when meetings are offline. “We thought all of the meeting notetakers were designed for online meetings, but none of them were designed for real world conversations,” said Akshay Narisetti, co-founder & CEO of Pocket who had founded another meeting notetaker called Omi. The hardware puck solves this problem by capturing audio continuously and locally without needing internet connectivity.

In a market that’s starting to see specialization, there are high end players like Plaud and Vibe who have premium hardware devices and low end players who are attempting to replicate functionality through mobile apps. Pocket is in the middle ground with a specialized hardware device that’s accessible to everyone and turns any smartphone into a fully functional recording device. With 130,000 sales already, there seems to be interest in this middle ground tier without much marketing as they’ve relied mostly on word of mouth and YC connections.

With this $11 million round led by Accel, they can now double down on integrations and pursue enterprise opportunities. Their focus markets are lawyers, real estate agents, doctors, and salespeople. Having an MCP server is especially interesting because it signals that they’re thinking beyond just being an app and more of a memory layer that AI agents can interrogate. This aligns with the future of the market where agentic workflows require personal context.