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TechCrunch+ roundup: Growth activation metrics, 3 keys to Series B, pitch deck teardown

The investors I’ve spoken to recently are still open to good ideas, but when they come from founders who are already working toward product-market fit, it boosts their confidence.

Microsoft will block Office macros by default starting July 27

Microsoft confirmed this week that it will soon start blocking Visual Basic Applications (VBA) macros in Office apps by default after quietly rolling back the change earlier this month. In a new updat

Decipad wants to help everyone do data modelling

Decipad, a no-code startup that’s aiming to disrupt spreadsheets with accessible tools that empower people to play around with numbers, has nabbed $5 million in seed funding. Put simply, it&#821

Frontline worker HR platform Snapshift raises $45M round led by Highland Europe

With the so-called “Great Resignation” many frontline workers (nurses, truck drivers, etc.) are re-assessing their lives in the wake of the pandemic, while older companies are struggling with this

Microsoft brings JavaScript to Excel

At its Ignite conference, Microsoft today announced an update to Excel that brings a new JavaScript API to the venerable spreadsheet app. With this new API, developers will be able to create custom da

Microsoft uses GPT-3 to let you code in natural language

Unlike in other years, this year’s Microsoft Build developer conference is not packed with huge surprises — but there’s one announcement that will surely make developers’ ears

Clubhouse will create billions in value and capture none of it

Hello and welcome back to Equity, TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast, where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines. Natasha and Danny and Alex and Grace were all here to chat th

Microsoft launches Power Fx, a new open source low-code language

Microsoft today announced Power Fx, a new low-code language that takes its cues from Excel formulas. Power Fx will become the standard for writing logic customization across Microsoft’s own low-

Microsoft now lets you bring your own data types to Excel

Over the course of the last few years, Microsoft started adding the concept of “data types” to Excel; that is, the ability to pull in geography and real-time stock data from the cloud, for

Google Sheets will soon be able to autocomplete data for you

Google today announced a couple of updates to Google Sheets that will make building spreadsheets and analyzing data in them a little bit easier. The most interesting feature here, surely, is the upcom

You can now ask Excel questions about your data

Microsoft today announced an update to Excel that brings natural language queries to the venerable spreadsheet tool. Available now to Office Insiders, this new feature allows you to talk to Excel like

Tesorio raises $10M Series A to help companies track their cash flow

Tesorio, a startup that helps businesses aggregate and analyze their cash flow data, today announced that it has raised a $10 million Series A round led by Seattle’s Madrona Venture Group. Exist

Microsoft Office gets smarter

Microsoft used its Ignite conference in Orlando, Florida, today to announce a number of new features that are coming to Office 365. Given the company’s current focus on AI, it’s no surpris

Microsoft’s Excel API, which lets developers access data stored in spreadsheets, hits general availability

After a relatively short beta, Microsoft today announced that the Excel API -- a way for developers to programmatically use Excel for Office 365 for doing calculations, building dashboards and more --

Microsoft Didn’t Get Its Math Wrong In That Excel Billboard

Yesterday, AppleInsider <a target="_blank" href="http://appleinsider.com/articles/13/11/10/microsoft-surface-ad-fails-to-excel-at-math-according-to-apples-numbers">pointed out</a> that Microsoft appe

Python For Microsoft Excel Company IronSpread Comes Out of Beta, Changes Name To DataNitro

Y Combinator Summer 2012 graduate <a target="_blank" href="https://datanitro.com/">Data Nitro</a> (formerly known as IronSpread) has a simple proposition: it enables you to to use the popular programm