Cloud collaboration service
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]
