SNAP is to get Saturn, which is an evaluation application used in thousands of secondary schools

Snap has acquired Applying a calendar for high school students and colleges. The company did not reveal the conditions of the deal, but it said that nearly 30 SATURN employees will join Snap as part of the acquisition.

It is not clear what Snap planned exactly to Saturn, but the company confirmed to Engadget that the evaluation application will continue to work as an independent service. He also suggested that the acquisition can help obtain features focusing on the calendar to Snapchat.

The evaluation application may seem a strange option for Snap, but it is clear that there is a lot of overlap between users of the two service. According to Snap, about 80 percent of the United States high school students enroll in schools that support Saturn (its application store page says it is available in more than 17,000 high schools). Snap is used by more than half of us, for each .

Saturn is also much more than the model evaluation application. It contains a Snapchat -like design that allows teenagers to participate and compare their tables with friends. It also supports many features of high school students, such as block schedules, rotating calendars and extracurricular activities. Saturn also has features for university students, although it does not seem widely used between a little old demographic.

The startup company, founded by Dylan Diamond (CEO of SATURN) and Max Baron (CO) collected money from a number of prominent investors, including the CEO of Salesforce Marc Benioff, CEO of Uber Dara Khosrowshhi and Jeff Bezos Bezos Experedits. Forbes In 2021, an emerging company raised $ 44 million.

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