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Using Quadratic, users can bring in hundreds of thousands of rows of data, write analyses in their preferred programming language and share the results with outside stakeholders.

Quadratic is reimagining the spreadsheet with a focus on data

Paris-based startup Pigment has raised a Series C round of $88 million — the investment was led by Iconiq Growth. Pigment wants to take on Microsoft Excel and offer a business…

Pigment secures $88 million for its business planning tool that will make you forget about Excel

Douwe Osinga and Jack Amadeo were working together at Sidewalk Labs, Alphabet’s venture to build tech-forward cities, when they arrived at the conclusion that most spreadsheet software doesn’t scale up…

Neptyne is building a Python-powered spreadsheet for data scientists

French startup Pigment has raised a new round of funding less than a year after raising a $73 million Series B round. If you’re not familiar with Pigment, the company…

Pigment raises another $65M to build the modern business planning platform

Financial projections are essential for any business, but in the case of tech startups, a financial model is one of the most important and overlooked tools available to a founder.

What most startup founders get wrong about financial projections

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’s…

Decipad wants to help everyone do data modelling

Canvas is developing a spreadsheet-like interface for non-technical teams to access the information they need without bothering data teams.

Canvas gives non-technical teams data exploration knowledge without needing a degree in SQL

Subscript develops APIs that grab data from various areas and organizes it so the data is not only easy to find, but provides up-to-date subscription revenue metrics.

Subscript wants to rid the world of subscription revenue metric spreadsheets

Microsoft brings JavaScript to Excel

8:00 am PDT • November 2, 2021

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…

Microsoft brings JavaScript 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…

Microsoft now lets you bring your own data types to Excel

Dr Lal PathLabs, one of the largest lab testing companies in India, left a huge cache of patient data on a public server for months, TechCrunch has learned. The lab…

Dr Lal PathLabs, one of India’s largest blood test labs, exposed patient data

Town Sports International, the parent company of New York Sports Clubs and Christi’s Fitness gyms, is mopping up after a security lapse exposed customer data. Security researcher Bob Diachenko received…

Data breach at New York Sports Clubs owner exposed customer data

The spreadsheet-centric database and no-code platform Airtable today announced that it has raised a $185 million Series D funding round, putting the company at a $2.585 billion post-money valuation. Thrive…

Airtable raises $185M and launches new low-code and automation features

Layer is not trying to replace Excel or Google Sheets. Instead the Berlin-based productivity startup wants to make life easier for those whose job entails wrangling massive spreadsheets and managing…

Layer gets $5.6M to make joint working on spreadsheets less hassle

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,…

Google Sheets will soon be able to autocomplete data for you

AWS today launched Amazon Honeycode, a no-code environment built around a spreadsheet-like interface that is a bit of a detour for Amazon’s cloud service. Typically, after all, AWS is all…

Why AWS built a no-code tool

AWS today announced the beta launch of Amazon Honeycode, a new, fully managed low-code/no-code development tool that aims to make it easy for anybody in a company to build their…

AWS launches Amazon Honeycode, a no-code mobile and web app builder

One of the big questions I got around the time the Apple Card launched was whether you’d be able to download a file of your transactions to either work with…

Apple Card users can now download monthly transactions in a spreadsheet

ZenHub, the popular project management tool that integrates right into GitHub, today announced the launch of Roadmaps. As you can guess from the name, this is a roadmapping feature that…

ZenHub adds roadmapping to its GitHub project management tool

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…

You can now ask Excel questions about your data

Spiff, a Salt Lake City-based company pitching a new service for calculating sales commissions for salespeople around the world, has raised $6 million in funding to sell its own product…

Spiff pitches a way to automate sales commissions calculations

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…

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

This simple spreadsheet of machine learning foibles may not look like much but it’s a fascinating exploration of how machines “think.” The list, compiled by researcher Victoria Krakovna, describes various…

How machine learning systems sometimes surprise us

Coda, the smart collaborative document editor that breaks down the barriers between documents, spreadsheets, databases and presentations, is today launching one of its most important updates since its launch in 2017.…

Document editor Coda adds third-party integrations with G Suite, Slack, Twilio and more

Can AI be used to intelligently rank expertise? Serial entrepreneur Peter Relan thinks it can, and and has today launched what he’s billing as a “knowledge-as-service” (KaaS) platform to connect…

Got It Pro uses machine learning to find a human solver for your techie problem

Since 2013, The Associated Press has been making an intentional effort to put data in the hands of local reporters. In the last few years, this meant assisting with Freedom…

The Associated Press’ plan to put hyperlocal data in the hands of reporters

Google today announced that it is bringing some of its Google Cloud Platform and Google Apps tools a little bit closer together. BigQuery, Google’s serverless analytics data warehousing service, will now be…

Google connects BigQuery to Google Drive and Sheets

Fivetran, a new Y Combinator-backed startup that is launching today, wants to bring spreadsheets into the modern age and make it easier for users to work with messy data and…

YC-Backed Fivetran Launches A Smart Online Spreadsheet For Data Analysis

Creating Google spreadsheets doesn’t have to be a boring undertaking, especially if you’re a fan of beer. Here’s a fun little autofill option that the Drive team has put into…

Google Drive Has A Handy Spreadsheet Autofill Option For Beer Drinkers

Popular wisdom has it that tablets are great for consuming content but aren’t that useful for creating it. Don’t tell that to Josh Leong, though. His Y Combinator-backed startup, Grid,…

YC-Backed Grid Reinvents The Spreadsheet For The Tablet Age