Attachments.me gets $500K from Foundry Group

Ronny Kerr · March 2, 2011 · Short URL: https://vator.tv/n/17b1

New service seeks to fix poor attachment management in email services with visual index

“We want to do to email attachments what Dropbox did to the Documents folder.” I’m listening.

Attachments.me, a new service that organizes all your email attachments, has raised $500,000 in seed funding from the Foundry Group, the company confirmed Wednesday.

The service is looking to solve the simple but widespread problem of lost email attachments. Anyone with an email address (read: every person that exists) knows what it’s like to suddenly and desperately need that one particular file sent by that one contact sometime in the last few weeks and everyone knows there’s really only one way to find it: by searching for the email that contains the attachment.

This new service automatically indexes all incoming attachments you receive and displays them in an easy-to-scan grid of icons. You can then search through all your attachments by file type, email address and the text contents. Attachments.me also lets you bookmark searches and share attachments easily with friends on Facebook or Twitter too.

For a pretty humorous (but helpful) introduction to Attachments.me, watch the video embedded below. It’s always nice to see a company that isn’t afraid to have some character. Isn’t half of Groupon’s wild success attributable to its unique identity?

Attachments.me was created by Jesse Miller, Benjamin Coe and Joe Stump. Miller formerly served as CTO of N4 Systems, provider of automated inspection and real-time safety compliance management software. Stump previously founded SimpleGeo, a company that offers products to help developers build location-aware applications, and he still serves as CTO there. Before that, he was the Lead Architect at Digg.

The Foundry Group, a venture capital firm that focuses on early-stage startups, is drawing from its $225 million fund closed last October. Since then, the firm has invested in a number of companies, including Standing Cloud, a cloud application management platform, and LOLcats publisher Cheezburger.