A short history

Spreadsheet.com

Spreadsheet.com was an online spreadsheet that worked like a database and project management system, so teams could build and run custom no-code apps in a tool they already knew how to use. At its peak Spreadsheet.com employed 34 people with over 1,000 customers, including Walmart, Bosch, FedEx, Roche, Fujifilm, and Saint-Gobain.

Spreadsheet.com is no longer available. Veeva Systems acquired the company in January 2024 and hired the Spreadsheet.com team. The service was shut down on May 31, 2024. This page is a short record of what it was.

What it was

Spreadsheet.com looked and behaved like a familiar spreadsheet, with formulas, rows, and columns. Underneath, it added the structure of a database and the tools of a project management system: views such as Kanban, Calendar, and Gantt, dependencies between tasks, rich cell data types, and automations that could trigger actions in other apps.

The idea was to stop teams from splitting their work between a spreadsheet and a growing number of separate apps. People kept the spreadsheet they already knew and gained the capabilities they would otherwise have needed new software for. It was used for project tracking, customer lists, hiring pipelines, and similar collaborative work. Primary competitors included Smartsheet, Airtable, Monday.com, and Asana.

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Who created it

Spreadsheet.com was co-founded by Matt Robinson and Murali Mohan. Robinson was previously CTO at Progress Software and had founded two earlier companies: Rollbase, a low-code application platform acquired by Progress Software, and Recruitforce.com, an applicant tracking service acquired by Taleo, now part of Oracle. Mohan was previously a director of engineering at Progress Software.

The company was based in Saratoga, California, and was backed by investors including First Round Capital and Spark Capital. Lotus founder Mitch Kapor and former Microsoft executive Steven Sinofsky were among its supporters.

History

Oct, 2017: Spreadsheet.com founded.
Aug, 2019: Early access opened.
Sept, 2021: Seed funding round announced.
Jan, 2023: Added AI formulas that use OpenAI models inside the spreadsheet.
Jan, 2024: Acquired by Veeva Systems.
May, 2024: Service shut down.