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2023. Microsoft’s new Power Platform AI copilot will build your apps for you



Microsoft has added its AI copilot to Power Apps, Power Virtual Agents and Power Automate. The idea here is to use AI to make using these tools for building line-of-business apps, flows and bots even easier by letting users use natural language to describe what they want to build. At its core, this works a bit like using the new Bing or ChatGPT. You tell the Power Platform Copilot what you want and then refine these ideas through a back-and-forth with the bot in the chat sidebar. In Power Apps, the main low-code tool of the Power Platform, users can now use sentences like “Create a time and expense application to enable my employees to submit their time and expense reports” and it will generate this app for them.


2022. Retool raises $45M to make building custom software as easy as buying off the shelf



Retool, the cloud app-building platform, has raised $45 million at a valuation of $3.2 billion. Retool believes there’s still a lot of mileage and important work left to do in the world of bespoke software — apps developed for a specific use and a specific user. Since being founded in 2017, it has seen more than 500,000 apps built on its platform with billions of queries pointing to strong usage of that software. Retool’s core platform today is built around around 90 “components” that can be fit together — not so much in a “low code” approach but for software developers and engineers to get some of the basic building blocks like forms, charts and tables out of the way. On top of this, it also provides validation, accessibility and other tools needed to verify all is working as it should be. Then developers can connect up any database or API — anything with a REST or GraphQL API, it says, as well as PostgreSQL, MongoDB and other data stores — to finish writing the rest of the software.

2022. Appsmith, a low-code platform for building business apps, lands $41M



Appsmith, that is building an open source platform for internal development teams to build the custom apps they need, has raised $41 million Series B. While the company frames it as low code, it’s designed to speed up the development process for experienced developers rather than helping a line of business users build applications, as some low-code applications environments aim to do. It does this by providing a lot of the components you need to build the application, whether that’s front-end pieces, data connectors or access control, pieces developers often have to build from scratch.


2022. Liveblocks grabs $5 million for its real-time collaboration API



Liveblocks, a startup lets you turn a regular web app into a multiplayer product with high-level hosted APIs, has raised a $5 million seed round. Also, in addition to its live presence state API, the company is launching its live storage API. Over the past few years, building a web app has become easier thanks to frameworks and APIs. But letting multiple people interact with the same document, form, whiteboard or piece of content is still incredibly hard. Liveblocks essentially helps you get there faster. The startup first released a live presence state API. When you open a document in Google Docs, you can see several profile pictures in the top-right corner. It tells you who is viewing a document right now. And you can see if someone else is moving their cursor or selecting some text. When you integrate Liveblocks’ presence API, you can take advantage of the API to display the list of people currently viewing a document just like in Google Docs. It can also track everyone’s cursors in real time.


2022. Brazil’s Abstra lands $2.3M to help teams make apps with its no-code tool



Abstra, which has developed a no-code tool for designers and programmers to build professional apps, has raised $2.3 million in a funding round. Abstra helps people make apps without coding. It is, in particular, good for agencies who want to deliver faster results or for non-technical departments that need to iterate faster but depend on centralized engineering teams to implement everything. With Abstra, designers and junior programmers can build professional websites and apps much faster than senior developers in bigger companies.


2021. AWS launches Amplify Studio, a new low-code app development tool



AWS has launched Amplify Studio, a new Figma-connected no-code/low-code service that is meant to help developers quickly build cloud-connected apps. Amplify Studio is an extension of the existing AWS Amplify service, which already focused on building web and mobile apps, but without the easy to use drag-and-drop interface of Amplify Studio. AWS has made an interesting move here by connecting Studio to the popular Figma user interface design tool. Through this, designers can build the interface in Figma and then the developers can connect this to their backend data and build the application logic in Studio. It also frees AWS from having to build its own design tool, of course. Amplify Studio does this by translating Figma designs into React UI component code.


2021. Google brings AppSheet automations to Gmail


Google has announced a new feature for its AppSheet automation service that will allow developers on its no-code platform to create custom apps and automation that can interact directly with Gmail. By leveraging dynamic email, developers can now build applications that users can trigger and execute right from inside their Gmail inbox — and while that has been the promise of dynamic email since Google announced it in 2019, we haven’t seen all that many developers really make use of these capabilities yet. With this, an AppSheet developer could now build an approval workflow or asset management system that users can update right from within an email, for example.


2021. Stacker raises $20M to help business units build software without coding



No-code platforms have developed into a hot market, and Stacker, a London-based no-code platform, is attempting to bring the concept to a new level. Not only can you create a web application from a spreadsheet, you can pull data from a variety of sources to create a sophisticated business application automatically (although some tweaking may be required). In order to actually be useful for business, you need to be hooked into the data that a business cares about. And so we let people bring their spreadsheets, SQL databases, Salesforce data, bring all the data that they use to run their business, and automatically turn it into an app. Once the company pulls that data in and creates an app, the user can begin to tweak how things look, but Stacker gives them a big head start toward creating something usable from the get-go


2021. Bryter raises $66M for its no-code tools for enterprise



Bryter — an AI-based no-code startup that has built a platforms used by some 100 global enterprises to date across some 2,000 business applications and workflows — has closed a Series B of $66 million, money that it will be investing into its platform and expanding in the U.S. No-code startups continue to see a lot of traction among enterprises, and Bryter’s not the only one: Airtable, Genesis, Rows, Creatio and Ushur are among the many startups building “hands-on tech creation for non-techie people” that have raised money in the last several months.


2021. Noogata raises $12M for its no-code enterprise AI platform



Noogata, a startup that offers a no-code AI solution for enterprises, has raised a $12 million seed round. The company’s platform offers a collection of what are essentially pre-built AI building blocks that enterprises can then connect to third-party tools like their data warehouse, Salesforce, Stripe and other data sources. An e-commerce retailer could use this to optimize its pricing, for example, thanks to recommendations from the Noogata platform, while a brick-and-mortar retailer could use it to plan which assortment to allocate to a given location.


2021. Genesis raises $45M to expand its fintech-focussed low-code platform to more verticals



Genesis — which has to date primarily worked with financial services companies, giving non-technical employees the tools to create ways to monitor and manage real-time risk, high-frequency trades and other activities — has picked up $45 million. It plans to use the funding to bring the tools it has already built to a wider set of verticals that have some of the same needs to manage risk, compliance and other factors as finance — healthcare and manufacturing are two examples — as well as to continue building more into the stack.


2021. Kleeen raises $3.8M to make front-end design for business applications easy



Kleeen, a startup focused on building user interfaces for today’s data-centric applications, has raised a $3.8 million seed round. The service uses a wizard-like interface to build the routine elements of the app and frees a company’s designers and developers to focus on the more custom elements of an application. The idea behind Kleeen is that you can essentially tell the system what you are trying to do and what the users need to be able to accomplish — because at the end of the day, there are some variations in what companies need from these basic building blocks, but not a ton. Kleeen can then generate this user interface and workflow for you — and generate the sample data to make this mock-up come to life.


2021. Rows raises $16M to build and populate web apps using only spreadsheet skills



German startup called Rows, that’s built on that ubiquity, with a low-code platform that lets people populate and analyze web apps using just spreadsheet interfaces, is announcing $16M funding and launching a freemium open beta of its expanded service. Rows is precisely the kind of platform that plays into the low-code trend. For people who are already au fait with the kinds of tools that you find in spreadsheets — and something like Excel has hundreds of functions in it — it presents a way of leaning on those familiar functions to trigger integrations with other apps, and to subsequently use a spreadsheet created in Rows to both analyze data from other apps, as well as update them.


2021. Stacker raises $1.7M to help nocoders build apps from spreadsheets



Stacker, a company that helps non-developers create software from spreadsheets, announced that it has raised $1.7 million in a seed round. Users of Google Sheets and the popular Airtable, can use Stacker to build apps from their spreadsheets. People already use spreadsheets as a way to make software of a sort; spreadsheets are a workaround, in his perspective, used by non-developers to get as far as they can towards building their own solution. So, turn those into real apps, let the end-users tinker with them, and presto, non-technical teams are off on their own. Stacker’s method also solves the issue of expecting users to start from scratch, adding buttons to a blank screen, as the service will make users an initial app from their selected Google Sheet, or Airtable.


2020. No-code platform Unqork secures $207M



Unqork, known for its no-code platform, has secured $207 million in Series C funding from a slew of big name investors. The new funding raises the company’s valuation to $2 billion. Unqork invented the first completely visual, no-code application platform that helps large enterprises build complex custom software. Its customers include high-profile clients such as The District of Columbia, Goldman Sachs, Liberty Mutual, Marsh, Montgomery County, New York City, Nippon Life, Pacific Life, Rethink Food, Vault, Aon plc and more.


2020. No-code platform Unqork secures $207M

Unqork, known for its no-code platform, has secured $207 million in Series C funding from a slew of big name investors. The new funding raises the company’s valuation to $2 billion. Unqork invented the first completely visual, no-code application platform that helps large enterprises build complex custom software. Its customers include high-profile clients such as The District of Columbia, Goldman Sachs, Liberty Mutual, Marsh, Montgomery County, New York City, Nippon Life, Pacific Life, Rethink Food, Vault, Aon plc and more.


2020. Google launches a work-tracking tool and Airtable rival, Tables



Google’s in-house incubator Area 120 has introduced a new work-tracking tool, Tables, which aims to make tracking projects more efficient by investing in automation. Instead of simply tracking notes and tasks associated with a project in various documents that have to be manually updated by team members, Tables’ bots help do things like scheduling recurring email reminders when tasks are overdue, messaging a chat room when new form submissions are received, moving tasks to other people’s work queues or updating tasks when statuses are changed. The solution is designed to be useful across a number of use cases, including project management, IT operations, customer tracking and CRM, recruiting, product development and more.


2020. EasySend raises $16M for its no-code approach to automating B2C interfaces



EasySend, an Israeli startup which has built a no-code platform for insurance companies and other regulated businesses to build out forms and other interfaces to take in customer information and subsequently use AI systems to process it more efficiently, is announcing that it has raised $16 million. The company wants to expand into more verticals: such as telecoms carriers, banks and more. Another area EasySend might like to look at more in the future is robotic process automation (RPA). RPA, and companies that deal in it like UIPath, Automation Anywhere and Blue Prism, is today focused on the back office, and EasySend’s focus on the “front office” integrates with leaders in that area.


2020. Google binds no-code tools, API management into new Business Application Platform



Placing a bet on the red-hot low-code/no-code market, Google LLC today debuted its new Business Application Platform category of software encompassing application programming interface management, no-code application development, process automation and business analytics. The platform is based on technology Google picked early this year with the acquisition of AppSheet and is intended to make it easy and simple to build applications without writing any code, which is different from low-code. The Business Application Platform will also include API management technology from Apigee, which the search giant acquired four years ago. The company said it will add new features that leverage Google Cloud, hybrid and multicloud architectures, artificial intelligence and machine learning development platforms, lifecycle management, security and productivity/collaboration tools.


2020. Airtable raises $185M and launches new low-code and automation features



The spreadsheet-centric database and no-code platform Airtable has raised a $185 million Series D. In addition, the company is also launching new low-code features, as well new automation (think IFTTT for Airtable) and data management. Previously, Airtable users could use pre-built blocks to add maps, Gantt charts and other features to their tables. But while being a no-code service surely helped Airtable’s users get started, there’s always an inevitable point where the pre-built functionality just isn’t enough and users need more custom tools (Liu calls this an escape valve). So with Airtable Apps, more sophisticated users can now build additional functionality in JavaScript — and if they choose to do so, they can then share those new capabilities with other users in the new Airtable Marketplace.


2020. Microsoft launches Dataflex, a relational database for building low-code business Teams apps



Microsoft today launched Dataflex, a relational database that lets business developers create, deploy, and manage Power Platform apps and chatbots without leaving Microsoft Teams. The built-in low code data platform provides relational data storage, rich data types, enterprise grade governance, and one-click deployment. Dataflex is supposed to surface key business data for building low-code apps that address business problems. The relational database also brings AI, performance, and security benefits out-of-the-box. Dataflex in Teams means business users can store and manage business data with the Power Platform. In the past, there wasn’t any supported place to put the data.


2020. Microsoft launches Lists, a new Airtable-like app for Microsoft 365


Microsoft launched Lists - a new database-collaboration app for Microsoft 365 users. It's similar to Airtable or Smartsheet, but with the addition of all the usual Microsoft integrations one would expect. The way Microsoft describes it, Lists is a tool to “track issues, assets, routines, contacts, inventory and more using customizable views and smart rules and alerts to keep everyone in sync.” It features deep integrations into Teams, SharePoint and other Microsoft products and will launch this summer on the web, with mobile apps slated for later this year. Lists include different ways to visualize your lists. For now, there are three views: grid, gallery and calendar.


2020. FileMaker 19 allows low-code development using readily-available JavaScript libraries



Apple's subsidiary Claris has launched FileMaker 19: the company's first open platform for developers to rapidly build sophisticated custom apps leveraging direct JavaScript integrations, drag-and-drop add-ons, AI via Apple's Core ML, and more. With FileMaker 19, developers can create in a snap with plug-and-play add-ons — Use add-ons like Kanban boards and photo galleries to snap together robust apps faster than ever before, or leverage JavaScript, web services, native FileMaker code and more to create sharable add-ons to sell in the Claris Marketplace. The new version allow to create apps directly in the FileMaker Cloud, skipping the multi-step configuration process and making apps instantly sharable.


2020. Google App Maker is shutting down



Due to low usage, Google App Maker will be turned down gradually over the course of 2020 and officially shut down on January 19, 2021. If you used App Maker to automate business processes Google suggests to move to AppSheet - a new addition in its application development portfolio that has capabilities similar to App Maker. If you used App Maker to develop apps - you can use App Engine to build and deploy applications on a fully managed platform. And if If you used App Maker for data collection - use Google Forms, which has many new features that were not available when App Maker launched.


2020. Google buys no code application development startup AppSheet



Google beefs up its cloud capabilities with the acquisition of Appsheet, which sells tools that enable so-called “citizen developers” to build data-based applications. AppSheet sells a “no code” application development platform that gives Google an easy way to help companies create mobile apps without needing to hire teams of developers. It works by pulling data from a spreadsheet or other source and using the field and column names as the basis for a new app. Appsheet was a tempting target for Google because it already integrates with its products such as Sheets and Forms. The platform works with other well-known services too, including Amazon Web Services Inc.’s DynamoDB database, Box, Salesforce and Microsoft Office 365. Google said Appsheet would continue to support those platforms after the acquisition has been completed.


2015. Teamdesk - online database for business management



Teamdesk - is an online database that’s flexible enough to work with any small business data needs. It enables teams to easily create online databases from scratch or use predefined solutions to gather, share and manage business information. Each database looks like a set of linked spreadsheets and consists of series of tables (or one table) comprising records (rows) and columns. It’s almost like building a custom Access app for your business, except this time, it’s online and everyone can use it together. TeamDesk is a versatile database tool that lets you use its premade databases from real estate records to accounting, project management to issue tracking. Teamdesk competitors include QuickBase and Zoho Creator.


2014. Zoho Creator adds form automation



Online database tool Zoho Creator added the new intelligence feature - Form Automation. It's a time-saving addition that can make your everyday work easier. It allows you to define your business rules and workflows. The best part is you can do this without any coding. With this feature, your app can now show/hide fields or sub-forms or complete a set of tasks when a form rule is met while the user fills, submits or modifies a form. You can trigger actions such as displaying custom confirmation messages, redirecting users to different web pages, sending predefined email/SMS notifications based on different rules that are met. In a service request application, for instance. You can simply configure a notification to the respective team when the customer picks a product from the dropdown options.