People will always love capturing notes, ideas and sketches with pen and paper. It’s a more intimate experience and studies show we retain more information using notebooks than laptops. We’re building a premium brand in the $81 billion stationary market with a line of Rocketbook products that are innovative, efficient and buzzworthy.
The Rocketbook Wave provides the freedom of a traditional pen and paper notebook, while instantly blasting your notes into the cloud using your smartphone.
When you use Pilot FriXion pens with the Wave notebook, you can erase your notes using your microwave oven and reuse your notebook. Seriously.
We partnered with Pilot Pen to use their FriXion line of pens which contain special heat sensitive ink. FriXion ink turns clear at 140 degrees Fahrenheit and the Rocketbook Wave is specially designed to be microwave safe. Every notebook comes with one FriXion pens, and you can repurchase them in stores and online.
We launched our Indiegogo campaign in March of 2015 and in that campaign alone, sold over 30,000 Rocketbook notebooks—we’d completely sold out of notebooks. Since that campaign our customers have been asking, “What other technology aspects are you going to do next?” So we launched another crowdfunding campaign that funded the new batch of Rocketbook Waves with integrations with iCloud, Box, and Slack. This is where we’re hoping to expand as we move forward.
On March 4th, 2015, we began an amazing journey, launching the Rocketbook Wave on rewards-based crowdfunding. Over 22,000 backers joined us to bring our first product to life, and we’ve shipped over 40,000 Rocketbook Waves.
As of May 16th, 2016, for the first time in history, the law changes. No longer is angel investing limited to the elite and wealthy. Now everyone can join our mission through equity crowdfunding.
It is time for the next stage of the Rocketbook mission, to scale our success and build a meaningful brand that creates educational and office products that help people be more productive, more creative, and just plain awesome.
To anyone who believes in our vision, our mission, and our potential, I hope you’ll join us.
Sincerely,
Joe Lemay
CoFounder & CEO
Jake Epstein