Pocket at $27M annualized revenue
Jan-Erik Asplund
TL;DR: As AI notetakers from Otter to Granola battle over virtual meeting capture, Pocket built a $129 hardware device with a MagSafe contact mic to record the conversations that happen off-screen—phone calls, doctor visits, in-person sales. Sacra estimates Pocket hit $27M in annualized revenue in February 2026, growing 50% month-over-month from its October 2025 launch. For more, check out our full report and dataset on Pocket.
Key points via Sacra AI:
- As AI notetakers from Otter, Fireflies & Granola took over the virtual meeting market, Akshay Narisetti, previously co-founder of one of the world’s largest open-source AI notetakers in Omi, co-founded Pocket (YC W26) and launched it in October 2025 as a $129 three-microphone device with a MagSafe contact mic that captures both sides of a phone call without speakerphone. The device records offline to 64GB of onboard storage with a four-day battery, syncing to a companion app that transcribes 120+ languages on a free tier with no minute cap, with Pocket capturing recurring value through a $15/month Pro subscription gating AI speaker labels, 100+ summary styles, unlimited cloud history, and an "Ask Pocket anything" query layer over every conversation recorded.
- Sacra estimates Pocket hit $27M in annualized revenue in February 2026, growing 50% month-over-month from $0 in October 2025, with subscription outpacing hardware at roughly 54% to 46% of its run rate. Compare to fellow hardware AI notetaker Plaud at $250M in annualized revenue as of September 2025, up 83% YoY, with revenue split 50/50 between software and hardware, Otter at $100M ARR in March 2025, up 56% YoY, Abridge at $100M ARR in May 2025, up 900% YoY, and “Plaid for meeting bots” Recall.ai at $31M ARR in January 2026, up 211% YoY.
- As high-quality, AI-generated transcripts & notes become ubiquitous across meeting apps (Zoom AI Companion, Teams, Google Meet), the OS (Granola), productivity apps (Notion) and vertical SaaS (OpenEvidence, Gong), the hardware notetaker’s market compresses toward the slice of mostly-offline prosumers willing to pay to record their field sales, in-person consultations, or open houses. 3 months on from the end of the AI pendant form factor, the emerging form factor for AI hardware notetakers is increasingly looking like the slim, MagSafe-compatible gadget that snaps on the back of your phone for easy access and limited obtrusiveness, between Pocket, the Chinese leader Plaud ($250M annualized revenue) & Notta Memo from Japanese AI notetaking software company Notta (10M+ existing users).
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