Notion launched its new Cron-based calendar last month, but its productivity outfit may soon have more privacy-focused offerings. The company announced today that it has acquired Skiffa platform that offers end-to-end encrypted storage of files, documents, calendar events and email.
Skiff was started in 2020 by Andrew Milich and Jason Ginsberg. The company had raised $14.2 million in two rounds of funding from investors including Sequoia Capital along with Alphabet chairman John Hennessy, former Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang and Eventbrite co-founders Julia and Kevin Hartz. Balaji Srinivasan and re–Inc founder Jenny Wang.
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In a chat with the co-founders posted on the Notion blog, the company’s COO Akshay Kothari said Notion had noted Skiff’s work from the start.
“Skiff has been on our radar at Notion since the beginning. I actually tried to reach out in 2020 when you were building your product in the Docs. We never connected back then, but I’ve been following your progress. Then, a few months ago, Ivan [Notion co-foudner] and I was talking, and Skiff came up again. I downloaded all the products you had made and was really impressed by the attention to detail,” said Kothari.
While the company started as a secure alternative to Google Docs, it also created other productivity solutions like calendaring and email.
Skiff said on its website that the company is joining Notion. On a support page, Skiff said the product will be discontinued after six months. It stated that the Skiff user account will not be converted to a Notion account. Additionally, users can easily export or migrate their data to other services.
Notion’s latest acquisition was its workflow management tool Flowdash in 2022. Before that, it acquired India-based Cron and Automate.io, which had a suite of integrations with 200 services.
