Schedule adjustment tool "Jicoo" supports paid seminars by introducing advance payment —— CEO Suzuki “Aiming for Stripe in the reserved area” | BRIDGE Technology & Startup Information

One of the most active verticals in 2021 could include a scheduling platform.

His Calendly in the United States raised US $ 350 million to become a unicorn. E-mail startup Superhuman, whose vision is to complete all actions, including scheduling, in 0.1 seconds has raised US $ 75 million and is in the countdown stage until it becomes a unicorn. Woven, a calendar startup launched by former Facebook CIO Tim Campos, has ended its service and is being acquired by Slack, speculating that Slack may launch an innovative calendar feature. In Japan, "Spir" launched last year by Shinsuke Oyama (currently CEO) from the user base announced a seed round.

Space Market co-founder Shinichiro Suzuki, who was his CFO and CTO until the end of 2019 listing at the company, also launched a startup called Jicoo in 2020 and scheduled the same name. We are working on the development and operation of the platform. Jicoo can book real and web conferencing, and isn't much different from many other platforms in terms of working with major calendar systems and his web conferencing system, but can publish custom designs and original URLs. We have been trying to differentiate in terms of points. This month, we added a pre-payment function and expanded the reservation system, and it has evolved into a platform that can handle paid seminars.

From the perspective of managing paid seminars and lesson reservations, "Coubic", which was acquired by hey last year and became a part of the commerce brand "STORES", is a daily business appointment. Being able to centrally manage paid seminars with the same mechanism may create new use cases. Facebook tried to provide a paid function to connect and interact with people who have a lot of followers for a while, and for a certain period of time he was paid a service such as web consulting and consulting. There have been so far. It could also be used to filter out appointment spam, so to speak, ridiculous appointment requests.

Among the many vertical options, Suzuki gave the following answer to his BRIDGE interview as to why Mr. Suzuki, who experienced exit, is working on the scheduling platform.

Social background has a lot to do with Jicoo's advancement in this area. Demand for his D2C / EC site for personal branding has increased, and online consumption has increased due to changes in the living environment of Korona-ka. People's tastes are shifting from the era of buying things to the era of buying things. Mercari, who once surpassed his C2C market in Japan with advanced mobile UX while having a Gulliver named Yahoo Auction, seemed to have all the players, and it is new to remember that he entered the EC platform area this year. Jicoo's aim is to "reinvent the wheel".

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