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Meditation app Calm sacks one-fifth of staff

Meditation app Calm sacks one-fifth of staff


Meditation app Calm sacks one-fifth of staff
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The US-based meditation app Calm has laid off 20% of its workforce, becoming the latest US tech startup to announce job cuts.

The Calm app, founded in 2012, offers guided meditation and bedtime stories for people of all ages. It received a surge of downloads triggered by the 2020 Covid lockdowns. By the end of that year, the software company said the app had been downloaded more than 100 million times globally and had amassed over 4 million paying subscribers.

Investors valued the firm, which said it had been profitable since 2016, at $2bn.

More than 500 startups have laid off staff this year, according to layoffs.fyi, a website that tracks such announcements.

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