Astrid was a multi-platform to-do list and task management application that was created in
San Francisco, CA
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in 2008. It was identified by the company's octopus icon. The service reminded users of scheduled tasks and was designed for limited integration with
Google Calendar
Google Calendar is a time-management and scheduling calendar service developed by Google. It became available in beta release April 13, 2006, and in general release in July 2009, on the web and as mobile apps for the Android and iOS platforms.
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.
Yahoo!
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acquired the company on May 1, 2013 and shuttered the Astrid service on August 5, 2013.
History
In 2008, Tim Su and Jon Paris co-founded Astrid in San Francisco, CA.
In 2011, Astrid attend the
AngelPad
AngelPad is an American seed-stage startup incubator, launched in September 2010 by Thomas Korte and Carine Magescas with six other former Google employees as mentors. AngelPad provides mentorship, seed money, and networking at two 10-week cours ...
startup accelerator. Later that year, they raised a seed round of
venture capital
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from Google Ventures having had 1.5 million downloads and 250,000 monthly active users.
In May 2013, Astrid co-founder and CEO Jon Paris announced on the company's blog on May 1 that
Yahoo! had acquired Astrid.
In an early July 2013 announcement, the public was made aware of Yahoo's scheduled closure of the task management service Astrid.
Yahoo discontinued the service on August 5, 2013. The team at Astrid supplied its customers with a data export tool and recommended former competitors such as
Any.do, Sandglaz,
Wrike
Wrike, Inc. is an American project management application service provider based in San Jose, California. Wrike also has offices in Dallas, Tallinn, Nicosia, Dublin, Tokyo, Melbourne and Prague.
History
Wrike was founded in 2006 by Andrew File ...
, and
Wunderlist
Wunderlist is a discontinued cloud-based task management application. It allowed users to create lists to manage their tasks from a smartphone, tablet, computer and smartwatch. Wunderlist was free; additional collaboration features were available ...
.
See also
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Astrid
Astrid is a feminine given name of Scandinavian origin, a modern form of the name Ástríðr. Derived from the Old Norse Ássfriðr, a compound name composed of the elements (a god) and (beautiful, fair).
Variants
* Assan (diminutive) (Swed ...
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Astrid (disambiguation)
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List of Yahoo-owned sites and services
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References
Android (operating system) software
Time-tracking software
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