Pearltrees Announces Botticelli

New version Represents Visual Upgrade to Pearltrees

Provides Immersive Experience as People Explore their Interests.

Paris, France, March 5th, 2013. Today, Pearltrees, the place where people cultivate their interests, announcedBotticelli a new version of Pearltrees that transforms organized collections into beautiful illustrated libraries. With 50 million web pages organized into 6 million pearltrees, Pearltrees is now the largest collaborative library in the world.

As a result of today’s release, both new and existing Pearltrees users will immediately notice changes that include:

  • Beautiful full screen backgrounds now illustrate each pearltree,making the product more beautiful and easier to navigate. The new backgrounds provide context for each pearltree, resulting in much more immersive navigation from interest to interest.
  • Highly realistic pearls now allow users to play with and dive into content in an entirely new way. Each pearl presents a view of what it contains, making what’s inside immediately recognizable. The realistic pearls offerunderstandingataglance.
  • A full suite of customization options now allows contributors to connect with their libraries in a more emotional way. Reusable image galleries, improved zooming capabilities and better image formatting create a familiar atmosphere that lets people feel at home in their libraries.

According to Pearltrees Co-Founder and CEO, Patrice Lamothe, " With this new release, wefocused on thethevisual potentialof Pearltrees to let people dive deeply into their interests and nearly feel them. Now Pearltrees conveysmore emotion and more informationata glance as people explore their libraries. It becomes really immersive!”

The new release is available immediately for the iPad and iPhone as well as on the web. Both the standard version of Pearltrees and the app are free. A premium version with additional features is available for $4.99 per month or $49.99 per year

About Pearltrees:Launched first in Beta in December 2009 and achieved a 1,0 release in November 2012, Pearltrees currently has over 2 million monthly active users and more than 50 million pearls. In 2012, the company released an iPhone app that is consistently rated 5 stars. The product hasalso been featured multiple times by Apple, Google and Mozilla. Pearltrees has raised 8 million EUR / 11.5 million USD from a group of international entrepreneurs and angel investors. The company has been recognized by OSEO in Europe as a “leap forward” and was selected as one of only five companies for the Launch Pad at Web2.0 Expo in 2010.