July 9-10, 2013
San Francisco, CA

Early Bird Tickets on Sale

Our good buddies over at Scan have just taken the wraps off the next version of the app, and the QR code scanner didn’t just get a little nip/tuck.

Calling the upgrade a “giant leap closer to our larger vision for what Scan is becoming,” founder Garrett Gee said in a statement on the news that the new version represents a ground-up overhaul for the startup’s flagship product.

In addition to a slick new UI, Scan 2.0 also supports more devices (iPhone 5, check; iPad mini, check; Android, no dice — yet), more one-click login options, and faster scanning for QR codes, UPCs (Universal Product Codes, or bar codes, as they’re more commonly known), EANs (International/European Article Numbers), and ISBNs for books.

“We had to totally redo the backend,” Gee told us via email, “in order to enable future in-app native actions that will directly tie with the business/web side of Scan.”

“We came at it from a design perspective and we were young, sort of native to the iPhone,” Gee said in a recent chat with VentureBeat. “Most people are interacting with QR codes using their phones, but a lot of time that took them to a mobile web site that was poorly designed.”

Also, the company has just announced a big milestone: 25 million users, up from 10 million just 9 months ago. After working with big-name clients such as NBA teams and Lady Gaga, the young team sealed an early-stage funding deal with Google Ventures and Menlo Ventures to the sweet, sweet tune of $1.7 million.

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