Which scheduling automation startup was founded by Tope Awotona?

Calendly was founded by Tope Awotona.

Awotona created the company after becoming frustrated with the back-and-forth involved in arranging sales meetings. He founded Calendly in Atlanta in 2013, using personal savings and a small-business loan while working from Atlanta Tech Village. The company hired the Kyiv-based development firm Railsware to help build the early product, and seed investors provided $550,000 later that year.

Calendly popularized a simple scheduling model: users connect calendars, define available times, and share a booking link. Invitees choose an open slot, which is then added automatically to connected calendars such as Google Calendar or Microsoft Outlook. The service is sometimes confused with Doodle, Acuity Scheduling, or Appointy, but those are competing scheduling products. Calendly’s freemium model and the viral nature of shared booking links helped it spread well beyond its original sales-meeting use case. In January 2021, the company raised $350 million at a reported $3 billion valuation.