I’m excited to announce today that we’ve raised a $3.9m seed round from Tiger Global, Bling Capital, Y Combinator, Speedinvest, FundersClub, Liquid2 and around 20 angel investors: startup founders and operators. Here's techcrunch telling our story.

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If you don’t know us, Hi! This is us: 

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Building a new spreadsheet software from scratch ✅

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We went through Y Combinator in 2019 and set out to build a next generation spreadsheet software: one that would be natively integrated with any data source your business is using, whether an internal database or a SaaS. 

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We had two convictions: 

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1/ ​​Spreadsheets are the best way to work on data. They’re: 

• Programmable
• Flexible
• Known by pretty much every knowledge worker

2/ Microsoft Excel and Google Sheets - as great as they are - are not adapted to the way business teams work and the tool they use

• They only handle static data, not live data
• They can’t connect with all the tools you use, unless you use some duck tape (and messy) solutions like Zapier and the likes

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Transparently, we didn’t realize at the time how complex spreadsheets are. Rebuilding from scratch a new spreadsheet software has required a lot of time and hard work from our team. 

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That being said, 2.5 years later, we’re very proud of the product we’ve built. We’re constantly getting amazing feedback from our customers, like this one

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We’ve been growing revenue and number of customers 50% month over month for about 6 months. 

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Here are the main characteristics of Actiondesk right now

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It really works like Google Sheets. 

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A lot of products pretend to have a spreadsheet like interface and experience. We found that most of them don’t really, and constraint users into a closed canvas and limited functions.

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Just like Google Sheets or Excel, Actiondesk gives you an infinite canvas where you can input text, numbers, import data and make calculations. 

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We support most functions you know from Excel and Google Sheets, and we even added some exclusive Actiondesk functions. 

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Actiondesk can connect to close to 200 data sources

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Everything is in the title. You can connect to Actiondesk your CRM, customer support software, accounting system and get your live data into your spreadsheets. 

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You can forget about csv copy pasting every monday morning before your meeting with your boss to update your reports. 

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With Actiondesk, all of your reports will always be up to date. 

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See the list of all of our data sources here. 

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Here are the 10 most popular ones: SQL databases, HubSpot, Salesforce, Close.com, Quickbooks, Intercom, Google Ads, Google Search Console, Facebook Ads.

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Get started with one of our 50 pre made templates

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Making data analysis easy and accessible to everyone is core to our mission at Actiondesk. 

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That’s why we decided to recreate a spreadsheet interface: spreadsheets are the most accessible type of interface. 

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Everybody knows at least the basics of how spreadsheets work. 

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One other way we make analyzing data easier is by providing templates you can get started with in 1 click. 

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These templates are the results of talking to hundreds of companies and gathering best practices for each department. 

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See the list of our templates here.

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Share reports automatically with your team, external partners or customers over Slack and Email

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Finally the most recent feature we’ve shipped that our customers absolutely love is “Digests” 

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You can schedule automations to send reports and key metrics automatically over Slack or Email at a specific schedule: every day or every Monday morning for example. 

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What’s next

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Our vision is to make it super easy and accessible for anyone within companies to build their own reporting and data analysis. 

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You shouldn’t have to master a complex language like SQL to get the data you need to drive your team and meet your objectives. 

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Nor should you have to raise a ticket and wait for your data team to get back to you weeks later because their bandwidth is too limited. 

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Product wise, we’ll focus over the coming quarters on: 

• Improving our spreadsheet interface and making it even more like Google Sheets / Excel
• Shipping more templates
• Enabling further collaboration: you’ll be able to comment on Actiondesk sheets and share them with the whole world if you want to
• Finally, we’ll improve our visualization capabilities so that you can build beautiful reports and tell stories using your data. 

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If you’re having the problems I’ve described in this post, you should definitely try Actiondesk out! 

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