Announcements made by Airtable: - Airtable introduced a new consultant directory that matches businesses with a vetted consultant to support data migration, base design, and team onboarding.
- Testing automation was made simpler and precise with the ability to choose a specific record in tests and quickly test automation dependencies.
- Document Automator made automating reports and updates seamless by enabling users to export data from their bases directly into a Google Doc to format it according to their preference.
- Airtable introduced a new navigational structure with three tabs for data, automations, and interfaces to improve discoverability.
- For Enterprise plan members, Airtable increased record limits from 50,00 to 100,000 per table and 100,000 to 250,000 per base.
- Connect Apps Platform came with features to help users build apps on shared company data.
- In December, Airtable CEO Howie Liu said the company was laying off 20% of its employees, about 250, from its business development, engineering, and other teams.
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Announcements made by Bubble: - Bubble paused the rollout of its new pricing plan after it received backlash from the developer community. CEO Emmanuel Straschnov said the company had under-researched the change.
- Bubble added the approximate count operator and cached aggregation operator for Lists as performance optimizers.It launchedd a new responsive editor built with CSS Flexbox to bring modern design principles to its online editor.
- Partnered with Notion to provide startups with exclusive access to Bubble credits on Notion's deal book.
- Bubble introduced global color variables for setting colors in the Styles tab across a Bubble app.
- Bubble announced the availability of the Microsoft Clarity plugin for web app developers.
- It launched a new component library with pre-built components segmented into categories, including heroes, headers, footers, signup/login forms, and value prepositions.
- Co-founder Josh Haas said he is transitioning to leading the engineering team, and Emmanuel is taking over responsibilities of running the company.
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Announcements made by Webflow: - Launched Workspaces to simplify creating, modifying, and growing a team on the platform.
- Announced the beta of Memberships, enabling users to build exclusive, branded experiences for their customers and community. Also, announced the beta of Logic to bring automation directly to the platform.
- Webflow added new scaling capabilities to its CMS for enterprise customers to serve websites with over 100,000 CMS items.
- CEO Vlad Magdalin said the company is working on creating an interim international pricing relief program that will consider the pricing parity of users and their clients.
- Launched Marketplace to help users easily find apps, libraries, templates, inspiration, gigs, etc.
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Announcements made by Softr: - Calendar blocks allow users to display events in daily, weekly, or monthly format by implying connecting data from Airtable and offer integration with integrated search and filtering capabilities.
- Organizational chart enables users to build internal portals and connect team members in a single interface.
- Comments block lets app creators allow users to add comments such as logging notes on a CRM, discussing tasks on a project management tool, etc.
- Launched a new setup journey and checklist to help newcomers on the platform build an application.
- Introduced AI capabilities to generate images and copy with just a single click.
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Announcements made by Glide: - Introduced its research arm that is working on GPT-3 based AI App Generator that can build an app based on a description in plain English.
- Added a Chart component to Pages for users to display and organize their data.
- Expanded data sources for building applications by importing CSV, Excel, and ODS files from users' devices.
- Introduced a Choice component to display images of each option and can be used with Airtable link columns to choose from records in the linked table.
- The map component offers two styles to display locations on large screens.
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Startups that raised funds: - Enterprise automation platform Jiffy.ai raised a $53M Series B round led by Eight Roads Ventures.
- Typeform raised a $135M Series C round to accelerate product development, nurture emerging technologies, and deepen strategic partnerships.
- AI-powered app development platform, Builder.ai raised a $100M Series C round led by Insight Partners.
- Webflow raised a $120M Series C round at a $4B valuation.
- Owl Ventures led the $30M Series B round of no-code app development platform Thunkable.
- Glide CEO David Siegel announced the raise of a $20M Series A round led by Benchmark.
- Inworld AI, a platform for creating virtual characters, raised $50M in a Series A round co-led by Section 32 and Intel Capital.
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Other announcements made this year: - Jamf Now is helping businesses set up and secure Apple devices with no IT experience necessary. Manage up to 3 devices for free.*
- Zapier announced March 11 as National No-Code Day to celebrate the no-code movement and the people driving the movement.
- Integromat rebranded as Make and introduced its new flagship platform.
- Softr said it increased the number of app builders on its platform from 30,000 to 100,000 this year.
- Makerpad launched a TikTok content creators challenge, inviting creators to contribute videos for its TikTok channel.
- Real estate has outperformed the S&P500 (20+ years). Arrived, a Bezos-backed company, finally lets everyone take advantage of it.*
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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 and 1972 Fords. | |
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