News Release:
DIY Software Enables Entrepreneurs To Easily Build Database Apps
For The First Time, Digital Nomads or Those Working On The Road With No Coding Background Can Build Workflow Software Using Technology In SMS, AI & VR Via"Mix-and-Matchable Blocks.”
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Airtable, a platform that enables anyone to build powerful, custom apps and their own useful software to support their businesses, recently announced that the company has raised $52 million in Series B funding, led by existing investors CRV and Caffeinated Capital, with participation from Freestyle Capital and Slow Ventures. Additionally, Airtable announced the launch of Airtable Blocks, a major expansion of the company’s platform. Now for first time ever, people with no coding background can build their own workflows utilizing the latest advances in SMS, AI, and VR, by choosing from a growing palette of mix-and-matchable “Blocks.” Often enough, f you want to work remtly, having extsentice knowdlege in computers is required. This includes website or app design using programming or coding of HTML, etc. A prime example of users who can benefit from this technology is a digital nomad, who works on the road, some-times from his/her RV or motorhome. Digital nomads can either use Airtable for their online, "mobile" business or implement it in work being done for clients, all while remotely traveling the world!
According to the press release, Airtable functions to produce collaborative editorial planning, managing global marketing campaigns, or even powering the entire back office of an organization. Airtable makes it much easier for anyone to create custom, collaborative workflows to suit their specific business needs than what was available before. The new "Blocks" introduce workflows that were not previously possible — not only on the Airtable platform, but on any platform before. "Custom apps that would have, in the past, cost hundreds of thousands of dollars to create, and taken months to build by a team of software engineers using complex coding parameters, can now be made in a matter of days by the end users themselves," explains Howie Liu, co-founder and CEO of Airtable. “Whether you’re an urban farmer, an interior designer, or building the next Fortune 500, the power of software creation is now available to you.” It’s estimated that the low-code app development market will grow to $27.23 billion in just four years, a 600 percent increase from where it is today. From nonprofits and small businesses to over 30,000 of the world’s leading companies (including Airbnb and Penguin Random House to name a few), a broad range of customers currently use and love Airtable, and that number is growing quickly — 400 of the Fortune 1000 are now on the platform, and revenue grew 500% in 2017. With Blocks, Airtable is taking on the low-code market opportunity with a much more widely accessible DIY software creation platform than anything else that exists on the market.
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