Calendly, a $3 billion scheduling startup has acquired Prelude, a startup specializing in the hiring process.
Prelude is specifically geared toward scheduling job interviews or other types of recruitment-related meetings.
Tope Awotona, Calendly CEO while announcing the acquisition wrote, “What makes this acquisition especially exciting is that it accelerates our vision to holistically solve external scheduling challenges for individuals and teams in companies of all sizes, from SMB to enterprise,”
Calendly has been focused on companies, not just individual users, for the past few years now. It released a group meeting feature to help teams schedule across time zones back in December 2021.
The Prelude acquisition shows Calendly’s interest in the HR software space and hints at its desire to build out other specific use cases. Awotona told TechCrunch that this is unlikely to be its last acquisition or its only dive into catering to specific industries.
Source: Protocol