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Workplace productivity app Aerotime raises $2 million seed funding


Bengaluru: Workplace productivity app Aerotime has raised $2 million in a seed funding led by Nexus Enterprise Companions with participation from Y Combinator, Sequoia Capital India, and Soma Capital.

The spherical additionally noticed participation from angel buyers like Akshay Kothari, chief working officer of Notion, Nir Eyal writer of Hooked & Indistractable and Damien Coullon, vp of Product, LinkedIn.

Based in 2021 by Piyush Narwani and Dhruv Goel, Aerotime is a calendar that solves productiveness losses attributable to fragmented conferences and fixed office distractions, with out altering something within the person’s workflow.

Narwani and Goel include product and engineering expertise, having labored with Linkedin and Amazon Internet Companies, respectively.

“Prioritisation and context switching are two of the largest causes for this. Aerotime helps you be intentional in regards to the time and automates many workflows to avoid wasting time” Narwani mentioned in a ready assertion on Thursday.

The corporate operates in India and the US. It earns round 70% of its income from the US and 30% from India.

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A examine compiled by Atlassian pegs the wage value of pointless conferences for US companies alone at $37 billion, and Aerotime plans so as to add extra productiveness on this section, Narwani added.

In response to Aerotime, most firms run on a supervisor’s schedule as a result of it is rather exhausting to seek out time with them, resulting in spaced-out conferences on the calendar for everybody else. This calendar fragmentation just isn’t good for deep work, making work hours extremely unproductive, it mentioned.

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