Pocket Raises $11 Million for Credit Card-Shaped Meeting Recorder

Pocket has raised $11 million from Accel, Y Combinator, and ElevenLabs CEO Mati Staniszewski, TechCrunch reported. The company sells a $129 credit card-shaped puck that attaches to the back of a phone and records conversations for transcription. The device has sold more than 130,000 units since its launch last year.

Basic transcription is included at no extra cost, while a $200-per-year subscription unlocks unlimited AI summaries, queries to an AI assistant, daily highlights, and file attachments. Users can generate meeting summaries, query an AI assistant about recorded conversations, create mind maps, and convert text into templates through the accompanying phone app.

Enterprise customers receive custom workflow management, webhook support, and integrations with Google Calendar, OneDrive, Google Drive, Obsidian, Claude, and Cursor, along with a model context protocol server for connecting the AI assistant to other databases.

Pocket was founded by Akshay Narisetti, a founding member of rival note-taking startup Omi, and Gabriel Dymowski, who previously founded a blockchain-based document management startup. “We thought every meeting notetaker was built for online conversations, but nothing was geared towards real-life talk,” Narisetti told TechCrunch.

” Accel partner Cecilia Wang said the puck allows recording on the go and offline, which matches how lawyers, salespeople, doctors, real estate agents, construction workers, and students use the device.

She added that the approach keeps people present during conversations while capturing more information than would otherwise be lost, building a central record of ideas over time.