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Airtable is an American cloud collaboration service company headquartered in San Francisco. It was founded in 2012 by Howie Liu, Andrew Ofstad, and Emmett Nicholas.
Airtable is an AI-native app platform that enables users to build custom business applications through conversational interactions with its AI assistant, Omni. The platform combines structured data management with AI-powered app generation, allowing users to create production-ready applications by describing what they need in natural language.[1][2]
In 2025, Airtable relaunched with this AI-native approach, moving away from its original spreadsheet-database hybrid model. The company describes this transformation as combining "vibe coding" with enterprise reliability, enabling rapid app development and automation through AI agents that can perform complex data analysis and workflow orchestration.[3]
Users can build custom business applications through conversational interactions with Omni, Airtable's AI assistant. The platform enables rapid app development, automated data analysis, and workflow orchestration without requiring coding skills. All Airtable plans include AI functionality with a set number of free AI credits each month, and the platform supports enterprise-scale deployment with advanced security and governance features. Applications built on Airtable can integrate with external systems and automate complex business processes through AI agents.[4]
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In February 2015, Airtable raised $3 million from Caffeinated Capital, Freestyle Capital, Data Collective, and CrunchFund.[5] In May 2015, the company secured an additional $7.6 million in funding from Charles River Ventures and Ashton Kutcher.[6] In March 2018, Airtable raised $52 million in Series B funding, followed by the announcement of the launch of Airtable Blocks.[7] In November 2018 it raised $100 million in Series C funding.[8] In September 2020, Airtable raised $185 million in Series D funding.[9] This was followed by a Series E funding round in March 2021, where Airtable secured $270 million,[10] led by Greenoaks with participation from WndrCo, Caffeinated Capital, CRV, and Thrive.[11] The company's growth culminated in December 2021 when Airtable raised $735 million in a Series F funding round, boosting its valuation to $11 billion.[12]
Product Changes
- April 2015: Airtable launches its API and embedded databases.[13]
- July 2015: Introduced Airtable Forms to collect and organize data.[14]
- August 2015: Airtable made "Add to Slack" option available to integrate Airtable with Slack.[15]
- December 2015: Airtable redesigned its iOS app.[16]
- December 2015: Airtable introduced barcode as new field type.[17]
- June 2023: Airtable launched a beta program and expanding access to Airtable AI.
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.”[18]
- September 2023: Airtable lays off an additional 27% (237) of its employees.[19]
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