Tempo AI announces $10 million funding round, aims to become a personal assistant app

First launching in February, smart calendar service Tempo looks to improve calendar management beyond scheduling and organizing. Creators of the application, Tempo AI, have announced a $10 million funding round in Series A lead by Relay Ventures and Sierra Ventures. The funding is intended to improve the app’s artificial intelligence to become less of a smart calendar and more like a personal assistant.

Tempo spurred from research institute SRI International, origin place of iOS voice command assistant Siri. Its involvement with Siri’s development explains its vision of becoming a proactive calendar organizer and ubiquitous personal assistant platform.

Besides scheduling and organizing events on the calendar, Tempo looks to surface context for scheduled events such as driving directions to a meeting, conference call numbers and contacts email addresses all with one click.