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

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

It isn’t 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 steered that the acquisition might assist Snap convey calendar-focused options into Snapchat.

A calendar app could appear to be an odd selection for Snap, however there’s clearly numerous overlap between the 2 companies’ customers. Based on Snap, about 80 % of US excessive schoolers attend colleges that assist Saturn (its App Retailer web page says it is accessible at greater than 17,000 excessive colleges). Snap is utilized by greater than half of US teenagers, per .

Saturn can be way more social than the everyday calendar app. It has a Snapchat-like design that enables teenagers to simply share and examine their schedules with pals. It additionally helps options particular to many highschool college students’ routines, like block schedules, rotation calendars and extracurricular actions. Saturn additionally has options for faculty college students, although it does 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 plenty 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 father or mother firm Yahoo, joined the board of administrators at Snap on September 12, 2024. Nobody exterior of Engadget’s editorial workforce has any say in our protection of the corporate.