Tiger World and a16z-backed productiveness firm ClickUp has acquired the calendar app Hypercal to spice up its platform providing, TechCrunch has discovered. As a part of the acquisition, the app’s founder Ricardo Clerigo can be becoming a member of ClickUp as Head of Calendar.
UK-based Hypercal was based in 2022 as an app for Mac and supplied integration with totally different apps similar to Notion, OneNote, Apple Notes, Google Docs, Todolist, Apple Reminders, Asana, Issues app, Microsoft To-Do, and Slack.
Its free plan allowed customers to attach with one calendar and one process app. Hypercal additionally had a paid tier costing $10 monthly for limitless calendar and process integrations.
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ClickUp provides a single platform for corporations to talk, collaborate on paperwork, handle tasks, observe timelines, ideate on whiteboards, and get insights from analytical dashboards.
Zeb Evans, CEO and Founding father of ClickUp confirmed the acquisition to TechCrunch in an announcement and mentioned that Hypercal will assist infuse new AI-powered options into the corporate’s productiveness suite.
“It has always been ClickUp’s goal to create one app to replace them all. We’ve already eliminated the need for many apps by building docs, whiteboards, dashboards, tasks, and AI natively into our platform. Calendar has been a part of ClickUp’s product for the last 5 years and our future vision is to connect Calendar to “productivity,” by evolving the core characteristic.”
“Through our acquisition of HyperCal, we will be able to accelerate our vision for individual productivity, which is largely reliant on how workers schedule their day within a calendar. It will provide users with the context they need for every meeting they join, pulling from tasks, docs, and projects.”
Final July, ClickUp laid off 10$ of its staff (around 90 employees) as a part of a restructuring to change into extra environment friendly and IPO-ready. In 2022, the startup reduce 7% of its workforce. At the moment, it mentioned this was a “one-time decision” to attain profitability.
ClickUp final raised $400 million in Series C funding co-led by Andreessen Horowitz and Tiger Global. The corporate has different traders together with Lightspeed Enterprise Companions, Meritech Capital Companions, Craft Ventures, and Georgian Companions.
The calendar apps area has been busy in the previous few months. Final November, Vimcal secured $4.5 million in funding from Altos Ventures to develop its enterprise providing. Earlier this month, Notion launched its standalone calendar, based mostly on Cron, which it acquired in 2022. On the similar time, France-based startup Amie removed its waitlist and integrated email functionality.
