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Airtable has raised $1.4B across 7 funding rounds.
Key people at Airtable.
Airtable was founded in 2013 by Howie Liu (Co-Founder) and Andrew Ofstad (Co-Founder) and Emmett Nicholas (Co-Founder).
Airtable has raised $1.4B in total across 7 funding rounds.
San Francisco-based Airtable provides a low-code cloud platform combining spreadsheets with relational databases to help teams build custom applications and automate workflows. Operating on a freemium software model, the company serves over 300,000 global organizations and eighty percent of the Fortune 100, including major enterprise clients like Netflix, Shopify, and Expedia. Founded in 2012 by Howie Liu, Andrew Ofstad, and Emmett Nicholas, the developer is backed by prominent venture capital investors such as Benchmark, Thrive Capital, Coatue, and Ashton Kutcher. The business reached an $11.7 billion valuation after securing a $735 million Series F funding round in December 2021, bringing its total capital raised to over $1.3 billion. In 2023, Airtable integrated generative artificial intelligence capabilities directly into user workflows while simultaneously announcing a 237-person workforce reduction to pivot its strategic focus toward large enterprise customers.
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]
Airtable has raised $1.4B across 7 funding rounds. Most recently, it raised $740.0M Series F in December 2021.
Airtable was founded in 2013 by Howie Liu (Co-Founder) and Andrew Ofstad (Co-Founder) and Emmett Nicholas (Co-Founder).
Airtable has raised $1.4B in total across 7 funding rounds.
Airtable's investors include XN, 7GC & Co, Accel, AirAngels, Alkeon Capital, AngelList Syndicator, Benchmark, Blisce, DCM, Felix Capital, Forerunner Ventures, F-Prime Capital Partners.
Key people at Airtable.
