In 2008, Tim Su and Jon Paris co-founded Astrid in San Francisco, CA. In 2011, Astrid attend the
AngelPad startup accelerator. Later that year, they raised a seed round of
venture capital from Google Ventures having had 1.5 million downloads and 250,000 monthly active users. In May 2013, Astrid co-founder and CEO Jon Paris announced on the company's blog on May 1 that
Yahoo! had acquired Astrid. In an early July 2013 announcement, the public was made aware of Yahoo's scheduled closure of the task management service Astrid. Yahoo discontinued the service on August 5, 2013. The team at Astrid supplied its customers with a data export tool and recommended former competitors such as
Any.do, Sandglaz,
Wrike, and
Wunderlist. In 2014, the source code for the
Android app was forked to create Tasks.org, an independent to-do list app for Android. ==See also==