From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Not to be confused with air table.

Formagrid, Inc.
Type of site
 Collaborative software
Founded2012
Headquarters San Francisco, California, US
Founder(s)
  • Howie Liu
  • Andrew Ofstad
  • Emmett Nicholas
IndustryInternet
URL airtable.com
RegistrationRequired
Current statusActive

Airtable is a cloud collaboration service headquartered in San Francisco. It was founded in 2012 by Howie Liu, Andrew Ofstad, and Emmett Nicholas.

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

Financing

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

References

  1. ^ "Airtable review: A drop-dead easy relational database management system". Macworld. Retrieved January 26, 2017.
  2. ^ 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.
  3. ^ Lawler, Ryan (February 25, 2015). "With $3M in Funding, Airtable Makes Complex Databases Usable on Your Mobile Phone". TechCrunch. Retrieved February 6, 2016.
  4. ^ "Airtable lands $7.6M round to help build simple, extensible database apps". VentureBeat. June 29, 2015. Retrieved February 6, 2016.
  5. ^ "Airtable Raises $52 Million and Launches Airtable Blocks..." BusinessWire. March 15, 2018. Retrieved March 16, 2018.
  6. ^ 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.
  7. ^ "Airtable raises $185M and launches new low-code and automation features". TechCrunch. September 14, 2020. Retrieved September 14, 2020.
  8. ^ "Cloud-based software company Airtable". mg21. April 20, 2021.
  9. ^ "Airtable is now valued at $5.77B with a fresh $270 million in Series E funding". TechCrunch. March 15, 2021. Retrieved October 26, 2021.
  10. ^ 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.
  11. ^ Russell, Kyle (April 30, 2015). "Airtable Launches Its API And Embedded Databases". TechCrunch. Retrieved February 6, 2016.
  12. ^ "Create Forms in a Snap!". Covering Bases. Retrieved February 6, 2016.
  13. ^ "Airtable and Slack: Keeping Your Team In Sync". Covering Bases. August 25, 2015. Retrieved February 6, 2016.
  14. ^ "Airtable Introduces Newly Redesigned iOS App to Make Database Creation Available to Anyone With an iPhone". Marketwire. Retrieved February 6, 2016.
  15. ^ "A Brief History of Barcodes". Covering Bases. December 23, 2015. Retrieved February 6, 2016.
  16. ^ https://zapier.com/apps/aitable/integrations
  17. ^ "San Francisco tech unicorn Airtable lays off a fifth of staff as multiple execs exit". December 9, 2022.
  18. ^ "'Sickening feeling': SF tech CEO blames himself as Airtable lays off more than 230 workers again". September 19, 2023.
Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Airtable&oldid=1215711001"