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Srinivasa Reddy Kandi: Former Sequoia Partner Launches AI Startup That Negotiates Your Calendar

January, 24, 2026-04:56

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Former Sequoia Partner Launches AI Startup That Negotiates Your Calendar:

Kais Khimji spent much of his career on the investing side of the table, including six years as a partner at Sequoia Capital. But like several other Sequoia alumni who went on to build major companies—such as Nubank founder David Vélez—Khimji long aspired to start his own venture.

This week, he unveiled that venture: Blockit, an AI-powered calendar scheduling startup based on an idea he first explored nearly a decade ago while studying at Harvard. Signaling strong conviction, Sequoia led Blockit’s $5 million seed round.

“Blockit has the potential to become a $1B+ revenue company, and Kais is the right person to build it,” said Sequoia general partner Pat Grady in a blog post announcing the investment.

While scheduling tools are nothing new, Khimji argues that recent breakthroughs in large language models make it possible to fully automate what has historically required human coordination. Blockit’s AI agents are designed to manage the entire scheduling process end-to-end—handling context, back-and-forth communication, and subtle preferences—without requiring users to share availability links or step in manually.

That approach sets Blockit apart from incumbents like Calendly, which was last valued at $3 billion and still depends on link-based scheduling. It also differentiates the company from earlier attempts in the space, such as Clara Labs and x.ai, which struggled before advances in today’s AI capabilities.

Khimji co-founded Blockit with John Han, a veteran of calendar and productivity products including Timeful, Google Calendar, and Clockwise. Together, they envision Blockit as something more ambitious than a scheduling tool—effectively an “AI social network” for time.

“It’s always seemed strange,” Khimji said, “that I have my own time database—my calendar—and you have yours, yet they can’t intelligently communicate with each other.”

Author: Kandi Srinivasa Reddy, Srinivasa Reddy Kandi, #KandiSrinivasaReddy, #SrinivasaReddyKandi