Note Sharing Service, U-NOTE Raises From Three VCs / Cnet Japan

U-NOTE announced fundraising of 11 million yen from partyfactory, VOYAGE VENTURES, and MOVIDA JAPAN.

U-NOTE operates U-NOTE allowing users to share notes of lectures or classes created by collaboration in real-time. It has had over 15,000 notes created including summary of various events.

U-NOTE was launched in June 2012. ... The founder attended internship of VOYAGE GROUP, IncubateCamp, an incubation program by IncubateFund, and was selected for the second batch of KDDI mugen Labo. ...

It plans to provide paid functions for event organizers from gathering information prior the event, archiving the contents, to feedback for the event.

Cnet Japan 12/10/2012 [jp]

memo

• It does not seem so easy to monetize with the service, however, it is an interesting project to create contents which are currently not shared as knowledge in text format. It may have great potential.
• http://u-note.me/