Notion acquires privacy-focused productivity platform Skiff

Notion launched its new calendar based on Cron final month, however its productiveness go well with can quickly have extra privacy-focused choices. The corporate introduced immediately that it has acquired Skiff, a platform that provides end-to-end encrypted file storage, docs, calendar occasions, and e mail.

Skiff was began in 2020 by Andrew Milich and Jason Ginsberg. The corporate had raised $14.2 million in funding over two rounds from buyers corresponding to Sequoia Capital together with Alphabet chairman John Hennessy, former Yahoo chief govt 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 be aware of Skiff’s work proper from the beginning.

“Skiff began exhibiting up on our radar at Notion proper from the start. I truly tried to achieve out in 2020 whenever you had been constructing your Docs product. We by no means related then, however I saved tabs in your progress. Then a number of months in the past, Ivan [Notion co-foudner] and I had been speaking, and Skiff got here up once more. I downloaded all of the merchandise y’all had constructed, and was actually impressed by the eye to element,” Kothari mentioned.

Whereas the corporate began out as a safe different to Google Docs, it additionally constructed different productiveness options corresponding to calendar and e mail.

Skiff talked about on its web site that the corporate is becoming a member of Notion. On a support page, the Skiff mentioned that the product would shut down after six months. It talked about that the Skiff consumer account gained’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. Previous to that, it acquired Cron and India-based Automate.io, which had a collection of integrations with 200 companies.