New funding: Portland, Ore.-based Reclaim.ai raised a further $3.2 million. The 16-person firm launched in 2019 and has raised $9.5 million to this point.
The enterprise: Reclaim helps groups determine and prioritize important duties, account for his or her time, and coordinate schedules. The platform has 70,000 lively month-to-month customers — a quantity that quadrupled over the previous yr. It’s utilized by greater than 14,000 firms.
The competitors: Calendly, Clockwise, Movement, Fellow and Jifflenow, amongst others.
The founders: Co-founder and CEO Patrick Lightbody has created and offered two firms within the software program testing house, and was one of many unique contributors to Selenium, a framework for testing internet apps. Co-founder Henry Shapiro was a founding product supervisor at a number of startups within the Portland space. The 2 beforehand labored collectively at New Relic.
The buyers: Yummy Ventures, Character, Flying Fish, Operator Companions, Grafana Labs CEO Raj Dutt, and others.
The analysis: Reclaim not too long ago performed two surveys of greater than 700 customers of its platform to higher perceive time administration and burnout challenges.
One survey discovered that just about one-third of conferences are rescheduled or canceled, and 60% of staff battle to offer larger scheduling availability for increased precedence conferences.
When it got here to points contributing to job burnout, 63% of respondents stated {that a} “lack of time for targeted work” was a key situation and 48% stated having too many conferences was a contributing issue.