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Livescribe designs and manufactures smartpens, enabling customers to capture, search, and share handwritten notes on the digital devices.

Livescribe is a U.S.-based company that designs and manufactures smartpens, enabling customers to capture, search, and share handwritten notes on the digital devices they use every day. Smartpens manufactured by Livescribe synchronize handwritten notes with recorded audio, making the ubiquitous pen more useful in today’s world. Its family of smartpens includes the Echo smartpen, the Sky wifi smartpen, and the Livescribe 3 smartpen, with complementary software for each platform. Livescribe’s smartpens convert handwritten notes and audio into digital format for access through the devices people use daily, fundamentally changing the way handwritten notes are accessed and shared. Its smartpens have an embedded infrared camera that detects penstrokes on special Livescribe paper, allowing notes to be recorded digitally in real time. Livescribe has won innovation awards including the prestigious Red Dot Award, Envisioneering or Showstoppers Best of CES, The Tokyo Gift Show Grand Prix, Hexus Innovation Award, SIIA CODiE finalist, Scholastic Teacher’s Pick, BusinessWeek Best Tech Startups, and MacLife Editor’s Choice. Livescribe was founded in 2007 and is headquartered in Oakland, California. The company has received funding from firms such as Scale, VantagePoint and Crosslink Capital, along with other participants.