Vectr — Free Vector Graphics Editor For Web & Desktop — Launching Out Of Beta! (Media Kit)

Hi friends,

We are so excited to announce that Vectr is launching out of beta! For two years now we’ve been working hard building our free cross-platform graphics editor, and now finally we are ready to show it to the whole world.

In this Medium post we’ve prepared for you the most vital information about Vectr and why it’s so full of value. Below you will also find pretty screens of our application and team photos. Please don’t hesitate to reach out to nick.budden@vectr.com shall you have any questions, or check our press page.

Launch Details

• Date — Tuesday September 6, 2016
• Price — Vectr is completely free, forever!
• Twitter — @vectrlabs
• Website — www.vectr.com

Funding

In conjunction with launching out of beta, Vectr will also be announcing our seed funding. Vectr, a Taiwan-based company, has been seed funded from some top North American firms.

Resolute Ventures led the round, a firm which includes the lead investor in WordPress’ first round of funding, and Raanan Bar-Cohen, who built WordPress’ business-side for a decade before moving to VC. With the parallels between Vectr & Wordpress’ models, Resolute is likely the most experienced partner Vectr could have.

Other seed investors include Guillermo Rauch, one of the world’s most respected JavaScript developers and creator of socket.io, Michael Lints who invested individually as an angel but hold a Venture Partner role in Singapore, and newly-founded Montreal VC firm Interaction Ventures.

What is Vectr?

Vectr is a free collaborative vector graphics editor, for both web & desktop, that aims to help everyone create vector graphic designs easily and intuitively, using its simple yet powerful web and desktop cross-platform tool. It doesn’t matter whether you’re a seasoned pro, or just getting your feet wet in design for the first time — you’ll be up and running in no time flat.

Vectr is design software for people like Sarah Vonderberg (you can read about her story here) — an alternative to complicated, difficult-to-learn design software — the editor has an incredibly low learning curve allowing professionals of different domains to fully harness the power of graphic design.

For the past year, Vectr’s been updated regularly every two weeks since our “accidental beta” last September. As you’ll see in Vectr’s Open Roadmap, we’ve got some big plans over the coming year, including:

• Built-in Marketplace & Community — create, share, or sell designs assets with others on the platform.
• Google-docs Style Collaboration — Vectr’s a real-time, collaborative graphics editor. It’s like Google-docs, except that it also supports some offline editing if you’re ever without a connection. We’ll ship this tech later this year, but it’s mostly built so we’d be happy to demo it if you’re interested! Just send an email to nick.budden@vectr.com
• Built-In Version Control — no more threads of email attachments with “design_version_1”, “design_version_2”. Just send someone a link to your Vectr document, and you can view every version of that design in one place.
• + More—this only scratches the surface of what we’ve got brewing. Check out https://vectr.com/roadmap or reach out for more detail ;)

Why Vectr?

Vectr is #free and #simple

The most active users of Vectr are currently not designers but software engineers, project managers, bloggers and social media specialists — those in need to deal with graphic editing in their everyday work and can’t afford to spend time/money for complicated paid tools.

Vectr is #social

Designing is a social activity — people love sharing what they’ve created and want to receive immediate feedback. Vectr understands this, which is why Vectr users are able to post their projects directly to Facebook or Twitter with a unique URL that allows others to edit the copy of the project as their own, and why over the coming year we’ll be building social collaboration directly into the editor.

Vectr is #crossplatform

Vectr is not only completely free, but also one of the only editors available cross-platforms — on the web or as a desktop download — on Mac, Windows, Chromebook, or Linux. Up to now, most of these platforms were stuck without alternatives to Adobe’s bloated/complicated products.

Vectr is #ambitious

Next Vectr team is planning to implement the marketplace for peer-to-peer designs sharing, and develop a premium account with advanced graphic design features. This should take startup to the new level, growing a strong internal community and opening up monetization channels.

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