Thursday, July 2, 2015

Airtable Gets $7.6M For Cloud Database Software

San Francisco-based Airtable, which develops cloud-based database/spreadsheet tools aimed at helping end users create their own, shared lists and databases, said this week that it raised $7.6M in a funding round. The funding came from CRV, and also included angels Brennan O'Donnell (VP Sales & Customer Success at SurveyMonkey), Ilya Sukhar (Founder of Parse and Director of Product Management at Facebook), Joshua Reeves (CEO & Co-Founder at ZenPayroll), Kevin Mahaffey (Co-Founder and CTO at Lookout), and Othman Laraki (Co-Founder of Color Genomics). The company is also backed by Freestyle Capital, Caffeinated Capital, DCVC, Crunchfund, and Founder Collective. Airtable focuses its cloud data tools on letting end users compile their own lists of column data, which can be shorted, shared, manipulated, and more on the web, mobile devices, and tablets.