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Zoom.ai

Zoom.ai was a Toronto AI startup founded in 2016 offering a chat-based virtual assistant that automated workplace tasks like scheduling meetings, generating documents and searching files. It raised $5.1 million, partnered with Microsoft, later rebranded as CalendarHero, and was acquired by Vendasta in 2021.

MarketingTorontoFounded 2016
$5.1Mraised across two rounds by 2018TechTO stage 2018-06-08

The people

What they build

MeetingsAutomated meeting scheduling across connected calendars, cutting the back-and-forth of coordinating times.
InformationA chat-based employee knowledge base and file search surfacing internal company expertise on demand.

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About

Zoom.ai was a Toronto-based enterprise AI company that built a chat-based productivity assistant living inside team chat platforms, including Microsoft Teams. It automated meetings, document generation, and file and knowledge search using in-house NLP and machine learning. Founded in 2016 by Roy Pereira, it later rebranded as CalendarHero and was acquired by Vendasta in October 2021.

Backers

Raised $5.1M across two rounds by 2018 (an earlier $2.1M round reported by BetaKit). Specific investors not confirmed.

Some figures are founder-stated, not independently confirmed

Quick answers

What did Zoom.ai do?

It offered a chat-based AI virtual assistant that automated workplace tasks such as scheduling meetings, generating documents, and searching files, working across chat platforms including Microsoft Teams.

Is Zoom.ai still around?

No. The company rebranded as CalendarHero and was acquired by Vendasta in October 2021.

Where was Zoom.ai based?

Toronto, Canada, where it was founded in 2016 by Roy Pereira.

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