Mayday closes $3.8 million CAD to help remote workers improve their time management

Mayday was co-founded by serial entrepreneur Jeremy Bell, who says his company is building a smarter scheduling and time management tool for remote teams and busy professionals. The seed round came from a group of United States venture firms and was led by 8VC, which has invested in the likes of Asana, Oculus, and Wish. Closer to home, Toronto-based CalendarHero (formerly Zoom.ai) went through a transition from a personal AI assistant for employees to an automated scheduling software that was bought by Vendasta last year. “[I] was left with this realization that the tools that we were all using to manage our time, weren’t actually helping us achieve the things that we wanted, if anything, they were holding us back in a lot of ways,” Bell said. With a focus on remote workers, Mayday is built specifically with three types of employees in mind: makers/designers, managers, and connectors like salespeople.