Former Sequoia Partner’s New Startup Uses AI To Negotiate Your Calendar For You
Blockit uses AI agents to negotiate meetings automatically—no more back-and-forth emails. Backed by Sequoia, it aims to reinvent calendar coordination
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Former Sequoia Partner’s New Startup Uses AI To Negotiate Your Calendar For You
AI Calendar Startup Blockit Raises $5M to Automate Scheduling Tired of endless email threads just to schedule a 30-minute meeting? A new AI-powered startup called Blockit says it can handle your calendar negotiations for you—without you lifting a finger. Founded by former Sequoia Capital partner Kais Khimji and ex-Google Calendar engineer John Hahn, Blockit has raised a $5 million seed round led by none other than Sequoia itself. The company claims its AI agents can understand scheduling nuances better than any tool before it, promising a future where calendars “talk” to each other directly. Credit: Blockit Unlike today’s dominant tools that rely on static availability links, Blockit is building what it calls an “AI social network for time”—a system where intelligent agents coordinate across users’ calendars in real time, mimicking human judgment while eliminating friction. From Harvard Dorm Idea to Sequoia-Backed Reality Kais Khimji first sketched out the concept behind Blockit nearly a d…
