Notion launched its new calendar primarily based on Cron final month, however its productivity swimsuit can quickly have extra privacy-focused choices. The firm introduced immediately that it has acquired Skiff, a platform that gives end-to-end encrypted file storage, docs, calendar occasions, and e-mail.
Skiff was began in 2020 by Andrew Milich and Jason Ginsberg. The firm had raised $14.2 million in funding over two rounds from buyers equivalent to Sequoia Capital together with Alphabet chairman John Hennessy, former Yahoo chief government Jerry Yang, and Eventbrite co-founders Julia and Kevin Hartz, Balaji Srinivasan, and re–Inc founder Jenny Wang.
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In a dialog with co-founders posted on the Notion weblog, the corporate’s COO Akshay Kothari mentioned that Notion had taken notice of Skiff’s work proper from the beginning.
“Skiff started showing up on our radar at Notion right from the beginning. I actually tried to reach out in 2020 when you were building your Docs product. We never connected then, but I kept tabs on your progress. Then a few months ago, Ivan [Notion co-foudner] and I were talking, and Skiff came up again. I downloaded all the products y’all had built, and was really impressed by the attention to detail,” Kothari mentioned.
While the corporate began out as a safe different to Google Docs, it additionally constructed different productivity options equivalent to calendar and e-mail.
Skiff talked about on its web site that the corporate is becoming a member of Notion. On a help web page, the Skiff mentioned that the product would shut down after six months. It talked about that the Skiff person account received’t be transformed to a Notion account. Plus, customers can simply export or migrate their knowledge to different companies.
Notion’s final acquisition was the workflow administration device Flowdash in 2022. Prior to that, it acquired Cron and India-based Automate.io, which had a set of integrations with 200 companies.