Snap is buying Saturn, a calendar app used at 1000’s of excessive colleges

Snap has acquired , a calendar app for highschool and faculty college students. The corporate did not disclose the phrases of the deal however mentioned that near 30 of Saturn’s full-time workers might be becoming a member of Snap as a part of the acquisition.

It is not clear what precisely Snap has deliberate for Saturn, however the firm confirmed to Engadget that the calendar app will proceed to function as a standalone service. It additionally recommended that the acquisition might assist Snap convey calendar-focused options into Snapchat.

A calendar app could look like an odd selection for Snap, however there’s clearly quite a lot of overlap between the 2 companies’ customers. In response to Snap, about 80 p.c of US excessive schoolers attend colleges that assist Saturn (its App Retailer web page says it is obtainable at greater than 17,000 excessive colleges). Snap is utilized by greater than half of US teenagers, per .

Saturn can be far more social than the standard calendar app. It has a Snapchat-like design that enables teenagers to simply share and evaluate their schedules with buddies. It additionally helps options particular to many highschool college students’ routines, like block schedules, rotation calendars and extracurricular actions. Saturn additionally has options for school college students, although it would not appear to be as broadly used amongst that barely older demographic.

The startup, based by Dylan Diamond (Saturn’s CEO) and Max Baron (COO) has beforehand raised cash from quite a lot of high-profile traders, together with Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff, Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi and Jeff Bezos’ Bezos Expeditions. Forbes in 2021 the startup had raised $44 million.

Jim Lanzone, the CEO of Engadget’s mum or dad firm Yahoo, joined the board of administrators at Snap on September 12, 2024. Nobody exterior of Engadget’s editorial crew has any say in our protection of the corporate.