Calendly
Scheduling and meeting-productivity software founded by Tope Awotona, now expanding into AI meeting tools.
- Productivity software / SaaS
- active
- Founded 2013
- Researched Sep 2026
The story
Calendly was founded in 2013 in Atlanta by Tope Awotona, who built it with personal savings and a small business loan after struggling to schedule sales calls. It stayed lean for years, then raised $350 million from OpenView and Iconiq in 2021 at a $3 billion valuation and went fully remote the same year. It remains active under Awotona as CEO and in 2026 expanded into AI meeting notetaking and scheduling assistance.
Timeline
Calendly founded in Atlanta
Tope Awotona founded Calendly using savings and a loan
Seed funding raised
$550,000 from OpenView, Atlanta Ventures, IncWell, Greenspring
Premium version launched
Company added a paid premium tier for individuals
$350M growth round
OpenView and Iconiq invest at $3B valuation
Closed Atlanta headquarters
Company shifted to an all-remote workforce
AI notetaker and Callie launched
Added meeting notetaker and AI assistant Callie
Founders
Tope Awotona
Founder & CEO
Former EMC/Dell EMC salesperson; funded Calendly with savings and a small-business loan
6 sourcesEvery fact above links back to these.
- Calendly - Wikipediaen.wikipedia.org
- How Atlanta's Calendly turned a scheduling nightmare into a $3B startuptechcrunch.com
- Calendly throws its hat into meeting note-taker circustechcrunch.com
- Calendly homepage (organization schema, about link)calendly.com
- Calendly: Meeting Scheduling - App Storeapps.apple.com
- calendly.com RDAP/WHOIS domain registration recordcalendly.com