Reclaim.ai Inc., a Portland-based startup that uses artificial intelligence to coordinate schedules with its calendar app, announced Tuesday that it was acquired by file-sharing giant Dropbox Inc.

Founded in 2019, Reclaim’s calendaring tool assists with finding the best times for recurring routines, schedules tasks, tracks time and will even buffer breaks for travel and rest between meetings for entire teams and organizations.

Reclaim Founders Henry Shapiro and Patrick Lightbody said in an announcement on X that today the app is used by 320,000 users across more than 43,000 companies, including notable companies such as PagerDuty, Zapier and GitHub.

Although Dropbox did not reveal the terms of the deal, the founders said that the entire team of 22 employees would be joining the storage giant as well as the entire service. The founders added that they would continue to invest in the app and build new features and updates to the experience.

“We started Reclaim by focusing on the calendar because we believed — and still do — that it’s perhaps the most critical system that individuals, teams, and companies have for both understanding what’s being worked on and for taking action,” the founders wrote in the announcement blog post. “We also believe that it only gets better with increased intelligence, automation and humanity.”

The company had raised $9.5 million in funding to date from investors including Calendly LLC, Index Ventures, Yummy Ventures and Gradient Ventures. Reclaim’s competitors include calendaring and scheduling automation services Calendly, Clockwise Inc. and Doodle AG.

According to Shapiro and Lightbody, what drew them to Dropbox was a letter published by Chief Executive Drew Houston in 2018 that outlined his vision of a calendar that would make everyone’s life better by organizing their day.

“Imagine getting to work in the morning to find your calendar reorganized so you have a three-hour block of time to actually focus,” Houston said. “Imagine starting your day and seeing the perfect to-do list — one based on a deep understanding of your priorities and your team’s priorities.”

Today, the founders of Reclaim said, the emergence and popular adoption of generative AI makes it possible to embrace this sort of tooling. By joining forces with Dropbox, users will get a calendar that not only understands what other people are doing but also what they’re involved with. The power of generative AI makes it possible for you to just say what you need and can handle all the underlying work of scheduling for you.

Requiem currently works only with Google Calendar, but the team says that a key priority is bringing support for Microsoft Corp.’s Outlook on board in the next few months for all users. The company also said it’s working towards introducing an AI copilot named Reclaim Assistant.

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