AirTable Yearbook
From How Airtable Became a Unicorn by Reinventing the Spreadsheet
Before AirTable
Howie Liu’s first startup was Etacts, which he founded in 20 10. The idea was simple. Etacts was a CRM for email contact management.
From How Airtable Became a Unicorn by Reinventing the Spreadsheet
as of Oct, 2022
September 2020
Raised $185 million in Series D funding.
Reinventing Spreadsheets
Spreadsheets are really optimized for numerical analysis and financial calculations. But almost 90% of spreadsheets don’t have formulas. Most are used for organizing purposes.
— Howie Liu, founder, Airtable
“We’re seeing people using our tools in ways we never could have imagined—preserving ancient languages, tracking scientific equipment, managing construction projects, and even planning a U.S. presidential campaign.”
— The Airtable blog, June 2015
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Pivotal Years
2015 and 2016 were pivotal years for Airtable as a product and a company. It had hit upon a solid idea for a business and attracted sufficient capital to make that idea a reality.
From How Airtable Became a Unicorn by Reinventing the Spreadsheet
AirTable Revenue History (Chart)
In 2022, AirTable revenue run rate hit $142M in revenue.
From AirTable revenue is $142M, valuation more than $11.7B
For Users, By Users
Airtable is hoping that people will adopt the app for themselves, and then bring it to their workplace, and vice-versa. To promote such adoption, the startup watches for users coming up with neat ways to use the app, and when it finds something that could be used broadly, adapts the custom solutions made by users into templates that others can build from.
– Kyle Russell on TechCrunch
AirTable 2.0 Release on Product Hunter
Beyond the spreadsheet.
@Airtable makes it easy to organize anything you can imagine. https://producthunt.com/tech/airtable-2-0
Bring all your data together
No matter where your data comes from, you can bring it into Airtable. Organize it, connect it, and format it how you want: it'll always be up to date and in sync.
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Define how work flows
Managing end-to-end workflows? Easy-to-use automations and integrations can run processes and perform tasks, even across separate systems. For an extra power boost, try custom scripting.
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Create visual interfaces
Make your work clear, visual, and actionable with interfaces. Use a template view, or build custom interfaces that meet specific needs.
From Airtable | Create apps that perfectly fit your team's needs
Pricing
Team
AirTable has 756 total employees and 134 sales reps that carry a quota. They have 300000 customers an engineering team of 1066 and a marketing team of 31
From AirTable revenue is $142M, valuation more than $11.7B
Howie Liu
Prior to Airtable, Liu was a product leader at Salesforce after its acquisition of his first company, the intelligent CRM Etacts.
Originally from Texas, he taught himself how to code C++ at the age of 13, after finding an unread training book in his dad’s office, and has been interested in software as a medium for creative expression and economic value creation ever since.
From Howie Liu - Co-founder & CEO @ Airtable - Crunchbase Person Profile
Valuation: USD 11.7B+ (2022)
User Num: 300K
Software Startup Airtable Scores a $11.7 Billion Valuation
Collaboration software startup Airtable has raised new funding at an $11.7 billion valuation, making it part of a rarefied club of companies to reach decacorn status -- a more than $10 billion valuation.
Airtable raised $735 million in the funding round, the company plans to announce Monday, and will use the cash infusion to improve its workplace application platform and expand to Europe.
From Airtable Funding Brings Startup Valuation to $11.7 Billion - Bloomberg
Howie Liu is CEO of Airtable, the platform democratizing software creation that he co-founded in 2016.
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AirTable Funding History (Table)
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2014
The perfect tool to stay organized
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2015
Organize Erverthing
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2017
Organize anything
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2016
Organize anything you can image
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2019
Create, Your Way
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2021
One platform.
Endless Solutions.
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Start from 2012
Founded in 2012, Airtable is an alternative to one of the most critical, yet often overlooked, software tools upon which much of society relies—the humble spreadsheet.
Vision
Airtable’s founder, Howie Liu, didn’t want to make a better spreadsheet. He wanted to reinvent the spreadsheet entirely.
Liu’s vision was to empower people to create what are essentially applications without writing a single line of code.
According to Liu, spreadsheets are powerful tools, but they simply weren’t designed for the kinds of things most people use them for.
From How Airtable Became a Unicorn by Reinventing the Spreadsheet
Financials
Funding: $10.6M
Revenue: $7.5M
Financials
Valuation:$1B
Funding: $152M
Revenue: $45M ~ $73M
Financials
Valuation:$11.7B
Funding: $1.19B
Revenue: $73M ~ $102M
AirTable Funding History
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Tweets
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AirTable Yearbook
🌱 before 2015
✨ 2015 ~ 2017
✨ 2018 ~ 2019
🦄 2020 ~ 2021
Founders
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Backed by Ashton Kutcher
$7.6M Series A in Jun, 2015
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Co-founder & CEO
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From TechCrunch
Obviously MySQL is great if you want to use code or custom SQL queries to interface with the data.
But, ultimately, you’d never as a business end user consider using literally a terminal-based SQL prompt as the primary interface to and from your data.
Certainly you wouldn’t put that on your designs. Clearly you would want some interface on top of the SQL level database.
We basically expose the full value of a relational database like Postgres to the end user, but we also give them something equally but more important: the interface on the top that makes the data immediately visible.
— Howie Liu
From TechCrunch
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March 2021
Raised $270 million in Series E funding;funding was led by Greenoaks and also included WndrCo, Caffeinated Capital, CRV, and Thrive.
December 2021
Airtable raised $735 million in a Series F, funding round that boosted its valuation to $11 billion.
2020~2021 Funding
The New Rival from Google
(2021) Last fall, Google’s in-house incubator Area 120 introduced a new work-tracking tool called Tables, an AirTable rival that allows for tracking projects more efficiently using automation. Today, Google says Tables will officially “graduate” from Area 120 to become an official Google product by joining Google Cloud, which it expects to complete in the next year.
From techcrunch.com
Airtable acqui-hires Walrus.ai’s founding team
Airtable today announced that it quietly acquired Walrus.ai, a no-code software testing platform, earlier this year.
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From Airtable Funding Brings Startup Valuation to $11.7 Billion - Bloomberg
Go Public?
“This round (Series F) bridges us to profitability,” Airtable Chief Executive Officer Howie Liu told Bloomberg. Liu said the company plans to go public in “a couple years.”
From Bloomberg
During the Pandemic
Like many workplace productivity tool companies, Airtable has seen demand surge during the pandemic and now counts more than 300,000 active customers including International Business Machines Corp., Hulu and Netflix Inc.
About 80% of companies in the Fortune 100 are paying customers, Liu said.
From Bloomberg