Dear Inside Community, May is here, which means Meet Our Fund 3 is only a few weeks away. This is the latest installment in our most popular event series where some of the most dynamic venture funds in the industry reverse-pitch themselves to thousands of founders. Register today. We want you to have a free, front-row seat to this virtual event. This is your chance to pose questions directly to investors. Understand what they look for in portfolio companies and how they distinguish themselves when they invest. Don’t miss out when MOF3 goes live on May 24 and 25. —The Inside Team | |  Sudarshan | |
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Airtable introduced new features to create and test automation. It also made it possible for users to upload multiple photos at once on the Airtable mobile app and introduced a new section to find recently used bases quickly. More: - Airtable added a new visual to highlight errors made by users while creating automation and guides them directly to the field that has to be updated.
- A discard changes button appears at the top of the screen to revert to the original automation after changes are made, and Airtable now allows previewing automation.
- Testing automation has been made more precise with the ability to choose a specific record in tests and easily test automation dependencies.
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During the keynote of its annual user conference, Empower 2022, Quickbase announced explosive growth for its platform. The event is back in person, and the virtual event on May 10-11 aims to bring its community together. More: - Quickbase's platform has grown more than 233% in the last five years and witnessed a 19% YoY growth in Q1 of 2022.
- Quickbase shared upcoming enhancements users can expect this year:
- Gantt Project Scheduler for project managers to visually create and manage schedules that can be embedded into workflows;
- Intelligent Document Generation to easily create invoices, statements of work, and other documents from apps;
- new visual forms builder;
- improvements to the report builder like Kanban functionality.
- Other enhancements include a new advanced security pack, Microsoft Azure Key Management support, and application lifecycle management capabilities.
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Visily, an AI-powered tool for designers to quickly and easily build web and mobile mockups, was launched. Visily is available for free now but plans to introduce a pricing structure soon. More: - Visily enables non-designers to build themes from keyword search by picking one from its library, generating a theme by uploading an image or extracting themes from an app or website URL.
- It leverages AI to convert the screenshot of an app or a website into mockups, build mockups from sketches on paper, and provide a design assistant to help spot and fix subtle issues with color, icon set, etc.
- The tool comes with hundreds of templates and components for mobile and web apps.
- Visily makes collaborating with team members easy by providing real-time multi-user editing support and simplifying developer hand-off by generating CSS code.
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No-code SaaS provider Coherent raised a $75M Series B round. The funding round was led by Maverick Capital and saw participation from Owl Rock, GreatPoint Ventures, Cathay Innovation, and Franklin Templeton. More: - Coherent's offering Spark converts business logic like rules, data models, formulas, etc., in spreadsheets into ready-to-integrate APIs.
- Spark builds APIs within minutes and helps save months from manually writing specifications, programming, testing, and iterating.
- Coherent's client list includes more than 60 Fortune 500 global insurance companies and banks and customers from the technology sector like Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services, Salesforce, Cognizant, etc.
- The founding team plans to use the new funding to expand into new industries and markets, grow its team size, onboard new partners, and add more connectors with leading SaaS and enterprise solutions.
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Quick Hits: - SeedInvest launches a pitch competition for historically underrepresented founders. Over $40,000 in prizes. Pitch to Baron Davis and Jesse Draper. Learn more.*
- No-code SaaS DLP solution Polymer announced its platform can redact and remediate employee exposure of sensitive data in real-time via Google Drive, Slack, Microsoft Teams and OneDrive, GitHub, and other platforms.
- Ohio-based low/no-code data integration platform TeamCentral raised a $1.5M seed round led by Cincytech and saw participation from TC investment partners.
- LumaApps launched LumaApps Journeys, a new intelligent, no-code solution that empowers organizations to deliver contextualized employee journeys within the workflow. Journeys leverages technology from LumaApps' recent acquisition, HeyAxel.
- B2B businesses are switching to e-commerce. Now, it’s your turn. Learn three persuasive approaches that communicate the value of digital to decision-makers.*
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Tweet of the Day: Glide's first session of the 101 Masterclass series on Thursday will focus on creating beautiful designs for Glide Apps and Pages. 
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Upcoming Events: - May 05 - [Live Webinar] Women in Sales: How to Build Your Personal Brand to Drive More Sales presented by Introhive (Register Here) *
- May 10 - Giving Voice and Intelligence to Digital Characters with David Colleen (SapientX) (Register Here)
- May 11 - Building Last-Mile Startups: Underground Delivery with Garrett McCurrash (Pipedream Labs) (Register Here)
- May 12 - Making Metaverse Dating a Reality (Register Here)
- May 18 - Need To Know NoCoder: Jatin Arora (Utilize) (Register Here)
- May 19 - Understanding Fractionalization (Register Here)
- May 24 - Meet Our Fund 3 (Register Here)
- May 31 - Ethereum Merge with Anthony Donofrio (Ethereum) (Register Here)
- June 01 - Selling Consumer Goods in Web3 (Register Here)
- June 09 - Empowering Content Creators with No Code (Register Here)
- June 22 - The Future of Open-Source Software Security (Register Here)
- June 30 - HR Strategies to Retain Remote Employees (Register Here)
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 |  | Sudarshan lives in Toronto, Canada, and is an engineering graduate. He is passionate about business, tech, entrepreneurship, and politics. FUN FACT: Sudarshan worked for the election campaign teams of two heads of state in India. When he is not busy with work, he enjoys hiking, playing cricket, and cooking. | | | | Editor | Aaron Crutchfield is based in the high desert of California. Over the last two decades, he has spent time writing and editing at various local newspapers and defense contractors in California. When he's not working, he can often be found looking at the latest memes with his kids or working on his 1962 Ford. | |
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