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To democratize software connection by giving teams all the tools they need not just to use, but create great software.
-8% employee growth in 12 months
Airtable allows users to create and collaborate on spreadsheets and relational databases without having to write lines of SQL code. It's most often used for customer-relationship management, project management, workflow planning and inventory.
In this sense, the concept is similar to the likes of Google Sheets and Microsoft Excel, but the fact that it functions as a database while remaining as easy to use as a spreadsheet is what sets it apart. So too does the fact that it can be used to build apps using Airtable’s own library of User Interface tools.
Whilst startups, including NocoDB, are setting out to challenge Airtable's industry-leading position, since launching in 2012, the business has grown pretty spectacularly, amassing an $11 billion valuation. The company also boasts an impressive (and evergrowing) list of customers using its cloud based platform, including Netflix, Expedia, Medium and Shopify.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Dec 2021
$735m
SERIES F
Mar 2021
$270m
SERIES E
This company has top investors
Howie Liu
(CEO)Having studied at Duke University, they co-founded Etacts in February 2010, prior to working in Products at Salesforce. They left this position in February 2012 in order to co-found Airtable in June 2013.
Andrew Ofstad
(Co-founder)They studied at Duke University before spending a year at Accenture, and working as a Product Manager at Google for 3 years. They used this experience to co-found Airtable in June 2012 with Howie and Emmett.
Emmett Nicholas
(Co-founder)After a childhood in Washington state, they studied Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Duke University. Prior to Airtable, was a founding engineer of Stack Overflow, which they helped scale to hundreds of millions of users.