DISQUS

VentureBeat: Email assistant Cc:Betty raises $1.5M

  • Jason Spievak · 6 months ago
    Congratulations to Michael, Ben and the team. You've tackled a real problem, and Cc:Betty actually solves it. Your focus on usability will be the differentiator here. Congrats!
  • Rod · 6 months ago
    I use ClearContext and am pretty happy with it. How is this different and better?
  • Anthony Ha · 6 months ago
    Well for starters, isn't ClearContext just for Outlook?
  • stoyan · 6 months ago
    serious hurdle to adoption by business e-mail users will be user privacy concerns, sarbanes oxley regulations, not to mention that that kind of context analysis is a stone throw away in Outlook, Yahoo mail and Google, who are the three most widely used e-mail services.

    Small idea - small future.
  • Aaron Burcell · 6 months ago
    Congrats on the raise fellas -- agree with Jason, organizing all of the media, contacts and comms that flow through the inbox is a really big consumer need. Good luck!
  • sample032 · 6 months ago
    It seems like a cuter, online version of Xobni, and cuter than "it's inbox spelled backwards" is pretty damn impressive. That said, competing with Xobni and Gmail will be a challenge; both are very good at what they do.
  • Anthony Ha · 6 months ago
    "That said, competing with Xobni and Gmail will be a challenge; both are very good at what they do."

    Agreed.
  • Yuri Ammosov · 6 months ago
    Pardon me, but just stupid one should be to copy all his private email to some website just because he can?
  • Sean OMalley · 6 months ago
    Congrats Michael and team!

    @sample032...If you’re trying to make comparisons Cc:Betty is probably most similar in focus to Google Wave. Google Wave is a tool for group communication and collaboration and Cc:Betty’s ‘Mailspace’ concept focuses on many of the same use cases. Basically, email hasn’t innovated to accommodate these group interactions so it’s a big need to be filled.
  • Phil Yanov · 5 months ago
    It's kind of hard to figure out why anyone would use this service more than occasionally.