Cc:Betty, a free service that helps organize group email threads, today has secured $1.5 million in seed led by Venrock with investors Seraph Group and Hillsven participating. The company was incubated in Venrock’s offices and officially launched at DEMO in March.
Founded in 2008 by Michael Cerda, Cc:Betty is a service that routes, parses, and organizes email conversations in a simple at-a-glance dashboard so you never have to scour your inbox to find the bits and pieces of a long thread. If you cc “betty@ccbetty.com” on any email, “she” will create a mailspace, which is a webpage, for your entire email thread and will divide important things such as dates, times, people, places, and files and will format them all in one place. Cc:Betty will track messages with up to 100 recipients and can organize emails with up to 20 MB in size, including attachments.
Recently, Cc:Betty upgraded its service with several new features, including the ability to see maps, images and documents as large thumbnails in email threads, and a list of people in an email conversation. You can also filter content of the thread by participant.
Congrats Michael!
Now I’m confused. Who have stolen the idea from who?
CC:Betty from Posterous or Posterous from CC:Betty?
Actually plenty of other similar products … My favourite is Followup.cc, u’d love it if u are a techie …
There you go…
Actually, sounds a lot more like the defunct I Want Sandy service…
As other people have noticed, this is very similar to I Want Sandy (http://www.iwantsandy.com/), which failed a while ago.
Well done MC!
or naggr which has bcc/cc your email and sends reminders on your behalf
And besides, who needs such a thing.
And how is this different, while being more trouble, than Gmail?
cc:betty to all my emails…. that’s kind of scary!
Can’t keep a good team down.
Impressive that Michael Cerda has been able to pull this off during a time that he made “The Year One” with Jack Black. Oh wait — that was Michael Cera. But seriously folks, if these do it right, this could be a useful tool. I wonder if they are nervous about Google Wave?
I can’t see going out of my way for a web based email log when I use gmail. Unlike wave there’s nothing compelling about. Maybe there’s potential but it is far from being useful at the moment.
This is just another reason why Prop 8 didn’t pass.
There is no way in hell I am CC’ing Betty. Shame on Betty for being such a nosy email peeper.
Say no to Prop 8 Betty Email Snooper
BTW I love your betty crocker cake recipes, stick to the kitchen hun, there is nothing snoopy about that sweetheart.
If you’re trying to make comparisons Cc:Betty is 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.