About us

Two parents who wanted back in on their own family's life.

Parendipity started as a fix for one household and became a mission: give parents their time back, and give both of them the same view of what is going on.

The founder's family sitting together in a field at golden hour — The Grote family. The first household on Parendipity.

Sitting on the outside, looking in.

Before Parendipity, Myles co-founded Upper Hand, a platform for youth sports and activity businesses. Over the years a pattern emerged: the world around kids filled up with apps, each one built for a small slice of life. School had one. The league had another. Every extracurricular brought its own.

The harder realization was closer to home. His wife carried the whole family schedule in her head. Every time he tried to help, he made more work for her than if he had stayed out of it. He was a parent on the outside of his own kids' lives, looking in.

That is the problem Parendipity exists to solve. Parents are handed an unreasonable amount of information and forced into tools they never chose. We set out to unshackle them from that, and to give both parents one shared place to operate from, so each can be in the know and carry an equal share of running the household.

Ron raised four kids who are now grown. When he heard the idea, he recognized it in the rearview mirror immediately, and wanted in.

The founders

Myles Grote

Founder

Co-founder of Upper Hand. Dad of two in the thick of it. Runs his own family on Parendipity, with his family's real inbox and calendar, every day.

Ron with his wife and four grown children

Ron Reeves

Co-founder and CTO

Dad of four, all grown now. He lived two decades of the schedule Parendipity untangles, and builds the technology that does the untangling.

What we believe.

We are a small team, not big tech. The app runs on our own families' information, so the rules we hold ourselves to are the ones we would want held for us.

Time belongs to families

Anything technology can now handle, it should. Parents should spend their evenings with their kids, not with the schedule.

Both parents, one view

No one should have to hold the whole household in their head. A shared space means either parent can step in without creating work for the other.

Privacy, the way we would want it

Your inbox and calendar are your family's. We do nothing with them that we would not want done with ours.

Less mental load. More presence.

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