notion have bought a few companies in the last year and today we're diving into what 10.3 billion
dollar post money valuation notion are doing with their Acquisitions so if you're new here welcome
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news and many more applications so notion coo their Chief Operating Officer Akshay katari who
I was very lucky to meet a couple of years ago fantastic chap has said this in a statement we
find ourselves in an interesting position because we've always been cash flow positive and we don't
need to do those things so we've been thinking the last six months a lot well if everybody is zigging
how do we zag and that is a statement against how many companies at the moment are doing hiring
freezes and slashing head counts in companies as big as Tick Tock all the way to sub stack
now in September 2011 we start our timeline here notion acquired a workflow based company a little
bit like zapier and they acquired it and they were based out of Bangalore and they were automated.io
and the notion itself actually raised 275 million dollars in that same month and they secured a 10.3
billion dollar post money valuation and since then they have been a little bit quiet about
their acquisition however in June 2022 of this year KRON was acquired for those who don't know
KRON calendar is a calendar application and it's still on the market now that is in Early Access
you can find that in the link in description if you're looking to explore what cron calendar is
we've done a video on it and they stated I would say we're very much in the market to continue to
talk to companies both on the product side as well as the aqui higher side and see how we accelerate
our roadmap internally so notion largely did the cron deal to acquire the skills of the cron team
versus necessarily actually buying the company for the sake of its technology which they might
have done with something like automate.io now notion in the month after actually invested so
much money into their marketing their Global ad campaign and that's now where you see adverts
for notion on bus stops and buses around many different countries across a globe which is
pretty awesome to see so in that acquisition KRON actually became interesting as well as part of
their product as the way that they set up their calendar experience I can see notion looking to
look at their availability and sharing of calendar events as something they weave into the product
and they did State at the time about synchronous communication being as important as asynchronous
communication something notion already tend to specialize in just due to the nature of their
Wiki setup so in saying that notion could as well be interested in the video market and the
chat Market as potential Acquisitions in the near future but they're playing a very different game
to many other people due to the fact that their cash flow positive with a lot of funding backing
them as well which is a pretty different approach to how many other companies start things up and
August 2022 notion acquired something called flow Dash flodash described himself as the
most flexible platform for teams to manage track and complete work what they're calling themselves
as a task management software that fits your business perfectly saving you time and getting
things done and it quite interestingly the way that they set themselves up is more how air table
set themselves up in terms of of coordinating different types of Integrations and also managing
your tasks so it's interesting to see how and where the notion will take advantage of the
way that they structure their databases to make them more coherent and flexible for the future
of machine learning a very interesting strategy if they decide to go down that route so in the
last year notion of acquired automate Cron, flow Dash and have invested a lot in their Global ad
campaign valuing themselves at over 10 billion dollars in post money valuation crazy world we
live in now but notion is on the way up and that was all of their Acquisitions in the last year
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