Airtable is a technology company.
Airtable has raised $1.4B across 7 funding rounds.
Key people at Airtable.
Airtable has raised $1.4B in total across 7 funding rounds.
Airtable is a San Francisco-based cloud collaboration platform that combines the familiarity of spreadsheets with the power of databases, enabling users to build custom applications without coding. Founded in 2012, it serves individuals, teams, and enterprises—including designers, marketers, operations managers, and Fortune 500 companies—solving the problem of rigid software by democratizing software creation through no-code tools for workflows like marketing campaigns and retail operations.[1][2][5][6] The platform has achieved unicorn status with hundreds of millions in annual revenue, viral growth via product-led adoption, and expansion into enterprise-scale use cases, raising over $1.3 billion in funding to reach an $11 billion valuation by 2021.[2][5]
Airtable was founded in 2012 by Howie Liu, Andrew Ofstad, and Emmett Nicholas, who sought to reinvent spreadsheets misused for database-like tasks. Liu, driven by a vision to empower non-technical users to create applications without code, developed the initial MVP over two and a half years with his co-founders, launching an invite-only beta in 2014 and public release in March 2015.[1][3][4][5] Early traction came from organic word-of-mouth among "fringe users" creating novel applications, fueled by community templates and features like calendar and kanban views; pivotal funding rounds started with $3 million in 2015, scaling to $735 million in Series F by 2021.[1][4][5] This bottoms-up growth evolved from individual users to enterprise clients like Airbnb and Tesla via 2017 billboard campaigns and upmarket strategies.[2][3][4]
Airtable rides the no-code/low-code wave, timing perfectly with rising demand for rapid app-building amid digital transformation and AI integration—Liu notes it as an ideal platform for AI workflows. Market forces like spreadsheet overuse in business and the shift from custom coding favor its flexible, scalable model, influencing the ecosystem by empowering non-developers in every company to create software, reducing IT bottlenecks.[1][2][3][6] It has scaled from individual creators to strategic enterprise use, fostering a "Lego of software" paradigm that accelerates innovation in marketing, operations, and beyond.[4][8]
Airtable's restructuring for AI signals a pivot to support agentic workflows and larger-scale deployments, building on its $12 billion valuation and enterprise momentum. Trends like AI-native tools and hybrid human-AI creation will shape its path, potentially evolving influence from no-code pioneer to indispensable AI platform infrastructure. As no-code matures, Airtable stands poised to redefine how teams dictate software, fulfilling Liu's original vision of universal app-building empowerment.[2][3][8]
Key people at Airtable.
Airtable has raised $1.4B in total across 7 funding rounds.
Airtable's investors include 7GC & Co, Accel, AirAngels, Alkeon Capital, AngelList Syndicator, Benchmark, Blisce, DCM, Felix Capital, Forerunner Ventures, F-Prime Capital Partners, Franklin Templeton Investments.
Airtable has raised $1.4B across 7 funding rounds. Most recently, it raised $740.0M Series F in December 2021.
