Perception acquires privacy-focused productiveness platform Skiff

Perception introduced its new calendar based on Cron extreme while, however its productiveness go well with can quickly have extra privacy-focused choices. The corporate introduced these days that it has obtained Skiff, a platform that do business in end-to-end encrypted document cupboard, medical doctors, calendar occasions, and e mail.

Skiff used to be began in 2020 via Andrew Milich and Jason Ginsberg. The corporate had raised $14.2 million in funding over two rounds from traders corresponding to Sequoia Capital in conjunction with Alphabet chairman John Hennessy, former Yahoo well-known govt Jerry Yang, and Eventbrite co-founders Julia and Kevin Hartz, Balaji Srinivasan, and re–Inc founder Jenny Wang.

Symbol Credit: Skiff

In a dialog with co-founders posted at the Perception weblog, the corporate’s COO Akshay Kothari stated that Perception had taken notice of Skiff’s paintings 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 stated.

Presen the corporate began out as a accumulation additional to Google Medical doctors, it additionally constructed alternative productiveness answers corresponding to calendar and e mail.

Skiff discussed on its web page that the corporate is becoming a member of Perception. Now we have reached out to Perception to hunt rationalization if Skiff as a product goes away.

Perception’s extreme acquisition used to be the workflow control device Flowdash in 2022. Previous to that, it obtained Cron and India-based Automate.io, which had a set of integrations with 200 services and products.