Notion Labs in a few pages, for writers, partners and anyone curious: the facts, the people, the money, the products and the news. Put together by ToolGPA, not by Notion Labs.
Notion Calendar is made by Notion Labs, Inc., the San Francisco company behind the Notion workspace. The calendar app has no paid tier of its own; Notion earns money from paid Plus, Business and Enterprise plans for its workspace and AI features.
Founded
2013
Based in
San Francisco
Chief executive
Ivan Zhao
Raised
$330 million
Valuation
$11 billion
Latest round
Funding round, $275 million
Unofficial. Put together by ToolGPA from Notion Labs’s own pages, news reports and our own grades, read Oct 18, 2026. Not made, paid for or approved by Notion Labs. toolgpa.com
Part 01 · Company
The company
Who they are, the facts in one place, and the people who run it
2013
The year Notion Labs was founded, in San Francisco
In a sentence
Notion Calendar is made by Notion Labs, Inc., the San Francisco company behind the Notion workspace. The calendar app has no paid tier of its own; Notion earns money from paid Plus, Business and Enterprise plans for its workspace and AI features.
In a paragraph
Notion Labs was founded in 2013 and is based in San Francisco, with offices around the world. Ivan Zhao is its CEO & Founder; Simon Last and Akshay Kothari are co-founders. It has raised $330 million, most recently a Funding round in October 2021. Its last reported valuation was $11 billion, in January 2026.
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Fact sheet
Company
Notion Labs
Founded
2013
Based in
San Francisco, with offices around the world
Raised
$330 million
Last valuation
$11 billion (Jan 26, 2026)
Website
notion.com/product/calendar
Products we list
Notion Calendar
Ownership: Privately held
Privately held and venture-backed. Its own post of January 2026 names Sequoia Capital and Index Ventures as returning investors and GIC as a new one, and no parent company is named.
Leadership
IZ
Ivan Zhao
CEO & Founder
SL
Simon Last
Co-founder
AK
Akshay Kothari
Co-founder
RK
Rama Katkar
CFO
Hiring
128 open roles across the whole company, the most in sales (44), people (16), engineering (14) and outcomes architecture (14).
Affiliate program
Up to $50 per activated sign-up plus 20% of first-year revenue for each referral, tracked through PartnerStack, for workspaces that upgrade within 180 days. The page says the program is not accepting new affiliates.
Part 02 · Funding
The money
Every announced round, who put money in, and what it was last valued at
$330M
Raised in total, over 2 announced rounds
$50 million led by Index Ventures in April 2020, after which the company told TechCrunch it had raised $67 million in all, then $275 million led by Sequoia Capital and Coatue in October 2021. CNBC says it has raised no outside capital since. Its 2022 and 2026 share sales were tender offers to employees, not money for the company.
Announced rounds, oldest first. Bar heights are to scale.
Every announced round
Oct 8, 2021Funding round$275 millionLed by Sequoia Capital, Coatue. siliconangle.com
Apr 1, 2020Funding round$50 millionLed by Index Ventures. siliconangle.com
Investors named
Coatue
Index Ventures
Sequoia Capital
Filled: led at least one round. As each announcement names them.
Last valuation
$11 billion
Jan 26, 2026
Announced by Notion's CFO as the price of a $270 million tender offer in which GIC, Sequoia Capital and Index Ventures bought shares from current and former employees.
What they make
Notion Calendar, as ToolGPA grades it: five subjects, a letter for each, and a GPA.
Notion Calendar
Free calendar app that connects to Notion databases
#3 of 76 calendar and scheduling appsFree plan4.7 on the App Store
3.6GPA
Our pick for people with several calendar accounts who want a desktop app. Keep your to-dos in Notion and your meetings in Google?
AValue
AFree
CFeatures
AEase
APlatforms
Notion Calendar’s grade as a badge for its own site, free: it updates itself and links to the review. Code at toolgpa.com/badges.
Part 04 · News
News and contacts
What they have announced lately, and every official channel
This media kit is ToolGPA’s own summary of what Notion Labs’s pages, news reports, investors’ announcements and public filings said on the dates shown, with our own grades. It is not made, paid for or approved by Notion Labs, and Notion Labs’s names and logos are trademarks of their owner. Grades are our judgement under the rules at toolgpa.com/grades. ToolGPA uses affiliate links and may earn a commission from them, and it works with sponsors; no one can pay for a grade. Product pictures are Notion Labs’s own, from its website and app-store listings.