{"id":987662,"date":"2026-01-26T08:48:21","date_gmt":"2026-01-26T03:18:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=987662"},"modified":"2026-01-26T09:09:06","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T03:39:06","slug":"ai-scheduling-startup-blockit-ai-raises-5-million-in-round-led-by-sequoia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/01\/26\/ai-scheduling-startup-blockit-ai-raises-5-million-in-round-led-by-sequoia\/","title":{"rendered":"AI scheduling startup Blockit AI raises $5 million in round led by Sequoia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Blockit AI, a startup founded by Kais Khimji, a former partner at US-based venture capital (VC) firm Sequoia, has raised $5 million in a seed funding round, the company said on Friday. <\/p>\n<p>The round was led by Pat Grady of Sequoia. Other investors include San Francisco-based early-stage venture fund Haystack; Adjacent, which focuses on next-generation technology startups; and Original, an investment firm supporting early- and growth-stage companies. Jeff Weiner, former CEO of LinkedIn, also participated in the round.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blockit AI, a startup founded by Kais Khimji, a former partner at US-based venture capital (VC) firm Sequoia, has raised $5 million in a seed funding round, the company said on Friday. The round was led by Pat Grady of Sequoia. Other investors include San Francisco-based early-stage venture fund Haystack; Adjacent, which focuses on next-generation technology startups; and Original, an investment firm supporting early- and growth-stage companies. Jeff Weiner, former CEO of LinkedIn, also participated in the round.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-987662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/987662","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=987662"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/987662\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=987662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=987662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=987662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}