Rise is a team-focused calendar app that uses a scheduling engine to find the most convenient meeting times across attendees, dividing weeks into meeting time and focus time. The product parses natural-language scheduling commands and ranks time slots to pick the best option for all participants. Rise is currently in private beta and aims to sell via a software-as-a-service model with monthly subscriptions. The company highlights potential network effects if multiple organizations adopt Rise, enabling cross-company scheduling at mutually convenient times. It faces competition from other calendar startups such as Cron, Hera and Amie, and positions itself as opinionated about time management to reduce configuration for users. Co-founder Rick Pastoor, author of the book GRIP, has sold over 75,000 copies of the book in the Netherlands, which the team cites as relevant background and audience traction.

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Jan 2022