Airtable at a glance
Question | Answer | As of |
|---|---|---|
Who owns Airtable? | Bending Spoons (NASDAQ: BSP), which bought 100% of it for cash | Sep 4, 2026 |
Sale price | $1.285B enterprise value; about $2.25B including Airtable’s net cash | Aug 4, 2026 |
Annual recurring revenue | About $480M, growing more than 20% a year | Jun 2026 |
Peak valuation | $11B pre-money at the $735M Series F | Dec 13, 2021 |
Total raised | $1.36B across its venture rounds | Dec 2021 |
Customers | 500,000+ organizations, including 80% of the Fortune 100 | Sep 2026 |
CEO | None publicly named; co-founder Howie Liu stepped down when the sale closed | Nov 2026 |
Founded | 2012 in San Francisco, by Howie Liu, Andrew Ofstad and Emmett Nicholas | 2012 |
Headquarters | 1 Front Street, San Francisco; offices in Austin, London, New York and Sydney | Nov 2026 |
Employees | More than 700 in January 2026; “a large portion” left in October 2026 | Oct 2026 |
Legal name | Formagrid Inc, doing business as Airtable | Oct 2026 |
Email format | {first}.{last}@airtable.com (76% of known addresses) | Oct 2026 |
Airtable’s legal name is Formagrid Inc, a Delaware corporation (SEC); its privacy policy says it does business as Airtable (Airtable). Its About page dates the company to 2012 (Airtable), while Liu has dated the founding to 2013 (Bending Spoons).
Who owns Airtable?
Bending Spoons owns Airtable. The Milan-based software company, listed on Nasdaq as BSP, agreed on August 4, 2026 to buy all of Airtable’s shares for cash at an enterprise value of $1.285 billion; with Airtable’s net cash, that implied an equity value of about $2.25 billion (Bending Spoons). The deal closed on September 4, 2026 (Airtable).
Before signing, Airtable moved its Hyperagent agents product into a separate company, Hyperagent Inc., which is a party to the purchase agreement but not part of what Bending Spoons bought (SEC). Co-founder Howie Liu now runs it (AI Engineer).
Investor | Role before the sale |
|---|---|
Bending Spoons | Owner since Sep 4, 2026, through Bending Spoons US Inc. (SEC) |
XN | Led the $735M Series F (Dec 2021), with Franklin Templeton, J.P. Morgan, MSD, Salesforce Ventures, Silver Lake and T. Rowe Price (Airtable) |
Greenoaks | Led the $270M Series E (Mar 2021), with WndrCo (Airtable) |
Thrive Capital | Led the $185M Series D (Sep 2020) and co-led the Series C (TechCrunch) |
Benchmark and Coatue | Co-led the $100M Series C (Nov 2018) (TechCrunch) |
CRV | Led the $7.6M Series A (Jun 2015) (SiliconANGLE) |
Caffeinated Capital | Backed the first $3M round (Feb 2015) and later rounds (TechCrunch) |
What is Airtable’s revenue?
Airtable had about $480 million in annual recurring revenue in June 2026, growing more than 20% a year, according to Bending Spoons’ announcement of the deal (Bending Spoons). The sale price, $1.285 billion of enterprise value, is about 2.7 times that figure.
Airtable was profitable in cash terms before the sale. In January 2026 Liu said it still held about half of the $1.4 billion it had raised and was “throwing off cash” (TechCrunch). The gap between the deal’s equity and enterprise values suggests about $965 million of net cash.
Date | Organizations using Airtable | Source |
|---|---|---|
Aug 4, 2026 | 500,000+, including 80% of the Fortune 100 | |
Jan 27, 2026 | 500,000+ | |
Sep 14, 2020 | 200,000 | |
Nov 15, 2018 | About 80,000 | |
Mar 2018 | 30,000 customers |
Its About page now claims 90% of the Fortune 100 and 10 million active users (Airtable), more than the 80% in Bending Spoons’ announcement.
How much did Airtable raise? Funding and valuation
Airtable raised $1.36 billion before the sale, most of it in 2020 and 2021. Its valuation peaked at $11 billion before the $735 million Series F in December 2021 (Airtable). By January 2026 its shares traded at about $4 billion on secondary markets (TechCrunch), and Bending Spoons paid $1.285 billion in enterprise value, about $2.25 billion with its cash, in August 2026 (Bending Spoons).
Round | Announced | Amount | Led by | Valuation | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Acquisition | Aug 4, 2026 | All cash | Bending Spoons | $1.285B enterprise value; about $2.25B equity | |
Series F | Dec 13, 2021 | $735M | XN | $11B pre-money | |
Series E | Mar 15, 2021 | $270M | Greenoaks | $5.77B post-money | |
Series D | Sep 14, 2020 | $185M | Thrive Capital | $2.585B post-money | |
Series C | Nov 15, 2018 | $100M | Thrive, Benchmark, Coatue | $1.1B | |
Series B | Mar 2018 | $52M | — | Not disclosed | |
Series A | Jun 29, 2015 | $7.6M | CRV | Not disclosed | |
First round | Feb 25, 2015 | $3M | Caffeinated, Freestyle, Data Collective, CrunchFund and others | Not disclosed |
Why the figures differ
$1.36 billion is Airtable’s own total after the Series F (Airtable); the $1.4 billion in press reports rounds it up (TechCrunch).
$11 billion or $11.7 billion: Airtable announced the Series F at $11 billion pre-money; $11.7 billion is the post-money figure, after the $735 million came in (TechCrunch).
$1.285 billion or $2.25 billion: the first is the enterprise value Bending Spoons paid for the business, the second adds Airtable’s net cash (Bending Spoons).
Who is the CEO of Airtable?
Airtable has no publicly named CEO as of November 2026. Co-founder Howie Liu, CEO since 2012, stepped down when Bending Spoons completed the purchase, to work full time on Hyperagent (AI Engineer). Airtable’s plan after the sale was presented by its new product lead, Alessandro Savarese (Airtable).
Person | Role | When |
|---|---|---|
Luca Ferrari | CEO and co-founder of Bending Spoons, Airtable’s owner (SEC) | Since Sep 2026 |
Alessandro Savarese | Airtable’s new product lead; wrote its post-acquisition plan (Airtable) | Since Oct 2026 |
Akshar (AP) Patel | Leads the new Core team; a long-time Airtable team member (Airtable) | Since Oct 2026 |
Howie Liu | Co-founder; CEO until the sale, now CEO of Hyperagent (AI Engineer) | 2012 – Sep 2026 |
Emmett Nicholas | Co-founder; CTO in 2018 (TechCrunch) | From 2012 |
Andrew Ofstad | Co-founder; Liu’s classmate at Duke (Forbes) | From 2012 |
David Azose | CTO, hired from OpenAI (Upstarts) | From Oct 2025 |
Liu’s bio and contact routes: Airtable CEO in 2026: Howie Liu, Bending Spoons and who runs Airtable now.
Where is Airtable headquartered, and how many employees does it have?
Airtable is headquartered at 1 Front Street, Floor 28, San Francisco, and has offices in Austin, London, New York and Sydney (Airtable).
Date | Employees | Source |
|---|---|---|
2019 | 140 | LeadWave company data |
2021 | 348 | LeadWave company data |
Dec 8, 2022 | About 1,270, before 254 people (20%) were laid off | |
Sep 14, 2023 | About 880, before 237 people (27%) were laid off | |
Jan 27, 2026 | More than 700 | |
Oct 12, 2026 | “A large portion of the pre-acquisition team” leaves |
The October 2026 cuts came five weeks after the sale closed. Airtable said the people leaving would get substantial severance and that a smaller team would focus on Omni, its AI assistant, a new app builder called Canvas, and its MCP server (Airtable).
Which companies has Airtable acquired?
Date | Company | What it added | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
Oct 13, 2025 | DeepSky | An AI agents startup; its largest acquisition | |
Aug 11, 2021 | Bayes | No-code data visualization; its first acquisition |
What is Airtable’s email format?
Airtable employees mostly use {first}.{last}@airtable.com: 76% of known addresses per LeadIQ (LeadIQ) and 90.1% per Prospeo (Prospeo). Staff mail runs on Google Workspace at airtable.com.
Need | Official address |
|---|---|
Press | press@airtable.com |
Sales | sales@airtable.com |
Security reports | security@airtable.com |
Privacy | privacy@airtable.com |
All patterns, domains and official inboxes: Airtable email format.
Key events: from a spreadsheet idea to Bending Spoons
Date | Event |
|---|---|
Oct 12, 2026 | A large part of the pre-acquisition team leaves; new product plan (Airtable) |
Sep 4, 2026 | Bending Spoons completes the purchase; Howie Liu steps down as CEO (Airtable) |
Aug 4, 2026 | Bending Spoons agrees to buy Airtable at a $1.285B enterprise value (Bending Spoons) |
Feb 19, 2026 | Launches Hyperagent, an agents platform (X) |
Jan 27, 2026 | Launches Superagent, its first stand-alone product; shares trade at about $4B (TechCrunch) |
Oct 13, 2025 | Buys DeepSky and hires CTO David Azose from OpenAI (Upstarts) |
Jun 24, 2025 | Relaunches as an “AI-native app platform”, which Liu calls a refounding (X) |
Sep 14, 2023 | Lays off 237 people, 27% of staff (Forbes) |
Dec 8, 2022 | Lays off 254 people, 20% of staff (TechCrunch) |
Dec 13, 2021 | $735M Series F at an $11B pre-money valuation (Airtable) |
Aug 11, 2021 | First acquisition: Bayes (TechCrunch) |
Mar 15, 2021 | $270M Series E at $5.77B (Airtable) |
Sep 14, 2020 | $185M Series D at $2.585B; launches Apps, Automations and Sync (TechCrunch) |
Nov 15, 2018 | $100M Series C at $1.1B (TechCrunch) |
Jun 29, 2015 | $7.6M Series A led by CRV (SiliconANGLE) |
Feb 25, 2015 | Public debut, with $3M raised (TechCrunch) |
2012 | Founded in San Francisco (Airtable) |
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