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Airtable 
Summary
Airtable is a cloud collaboration service headquartered in San Francisco. It was founded in 2012 by Howie Liu, Andrew Ofstad, and Emmett Nicholas.
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Type of site | Collaborative software |
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| Founded | 2012 |
| Headquarters | San Francisco, California, US |
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| Industry | Internet |
| URL | airtable |
| Registration | Required |
| Current status | Active |
Airtable is a spreadsheet-database hybrid, with the features of a database but applied to a spreadsheet. The fields in an Airtable table are similar to cells in a spreadsheet, but have types such as 'checkbox', 'phone number', and 'drop-down list', and can reference file attachments like images.[1][2]
Users can create a database, set up column types, add records, link tables to one another, collaborate, sort records and publish views to external websites.
History edit
Financing edit
- February 2015: Raised $3 million from Caffeinated Capital, Freestyle Capital, Data Collective, CrunchFund.[3]
- May 2015: Raised $7.6 million funding from Charles River Ventures and Ashton Kutcher.[4]
- March 2018: Raised $52 million in Series B funding; announced the launch of Airtable Blocks.[5]
- November 2018: Raised $100 million in Series C funding.[6]
- September 2020: Raised $185 million in Series D funding.[7]
- March 2021: Raised $270 million in Series E funding;[8] funding was led by Greenoaks and also included WndrCo, Caffeinated Capital, CRV, and Thrive.[9]
- December 2021: Airtable raised $735 million in a Series F[10] funding round that boosted its valuation to $11 billion.
Features edit
- April 2015: Airtable launches its API and embedded databases.[11]
- July 2015: Introduced Airtable Forms to collect and organize data.[12]
- August 2015: Airtable made "Add to Slack" option available to integrate Airtable with Slack.[13]
- December 2015: Airtable redesigned its iOS app.[14]
- December 2015: Airtable introduced barcode as new field type.[15]
- June 2023: Airtable launched a beta program and expanding access to Airtable AI.[16]
Layoffs edit
- December 2022: Airtable CEO and co-founder Howie Liu informed employees that a fifth of them would be laid off, stating: “In trying to do too many things at once, we have grown our organization at a breakneck pace over the past few years....We will continue to emphasize growth, but do so by investing heavily in the levers that yield the highest growth relative to their cost.”[17]
- September 2023: Airtable lays off an additional 27% (237) of its employees.[18]
See also edit
References edit
- ^ "Airtable review: A drop-dead easy relational database management system". Macworld. Retrieved January 26, 2017.
- ^ Martin, James A. "3 ways Airtable for iOS can help you ditch spreadsheets". CIO. Archived from the original on June 27, 2018. Retrieved January 26, 2017.
- ^ Lawler, Ryan (February 25, 2015). "With $3M in Funding, Airtable Makes Complex Databases Usable on Your Mobile Phone". TechCrunch. Retrieved February 6, 2016.
- ^ "Airtable lands $7.6M round to help build simple, extensible database apps". VentureBeat. June 29, 2015. Retrieved February 6, 2016.
- ^ "Airtable Raises $52 Million and Launches Airtable Blocks..." BusinessWire. March 15, 2018. Retrieved March 16, 2018.
- ^ Lunden, Ingrid (November 15, 2018). "Airtable, maker of a coding platform for non-techies, raises $100M at a $1.1B valuation". TechCrunch. Archived from the original on April 15, 2019. Retrieved April 15, 2019.
- ^ "Airtable raises $185M and launches new low-code and automation features". TechCrunch. September 14, 2020. Retrieved September 14, 2020.
- ^ "Cloud-based software company Airtable". mg21. April 20, 2021.
- ^ "Airtable is now valued at $5.77B with a fresh $270 million in Series E funding". TechCrunch. March 15, 2021. Retrieved October 26, 2021.
- ^ León, Riley de (December 13, 2021). "Software start-up Airtable hits $11 billion valuation in latest funding, adds Salesforce, Michael Dell as investors". CNBC. Retrieved April 13, 2022.
- ^ Russell, Kyle (April 30, 2015). "Airtable Launches Its API And Embedded Databases". TechCrunch. Retrieved February 6, 2016.
- ^ "Create Forms in a Snap!". Covering Bases. Retrieved February 6, 2016.
- ^ "Airtable and Slack: Keeping Your Team In Sync". Covering Bases. August 25, 2015. Retrieved February 6, 2016.
- ^ "Airtable Introduces Newly Redesigned iOS App to Make Database Creation Available to Anyone With an iPhone". Marketwire. Retrieved February 6, 2016.
- ^ "A Brief History of Barcodes". Covering Bases. December 23, 2015. Retrieved February 6, 2016.
- ^ https://zapier.com/apps/aitable/integrations
- ^ "San Francisco tech unicorn Airtable lays off a fifth of staff as multiple execs exit". December 9, 2022.
- ^ "'Sickening feeling': SF tech CEO blames himself as Airtable lays off more than 230 workers again". September 19, 2023.