Headquarters
San Francisco, CAFounded
2014CEO / Founder
Shishir MehrotraEmployees
201-500Funding
Series D+ — $400MProducts
1 product listedAvg. AI Score
7.9/10Website
coda.io/Profile updated
Coda is a San Francisco-based software company that develops a collaborative document platform allowing teams to build documents that function as applications. It was founded in 2014 by Shishir Mehrotra, a former YouTube executive, and Alex DeNeui. The product is designed to replace the fragmented use of separate word processors, spreadsheets, and project management tools.
Coda's core product, Coda Doc, enables users to embed tables, buttons, formulas, and automations within a document interface. The platform supports integrations with tools such as Slack, Jira, Salesforce, and Google Calendar. Coda has been used by teams at companies including Uber, Square, and The New York Times for use cases ranging from product roadmaps to OKR tracking. In 2023, the company introduced Coda AI, which adds generative AI capabilities including document summarization, drafting, and data analysis.
Coda has raised approximately $400 million in total funding across multiple rounds, with investors including Greylock Partners, General Catalyst, and Sequoia Capital. The company reached a reported valuation of around $1.4 billion following its Series D round in 2022. As of recent estimates, Coda employs roughly 200 to 400 people.
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Who Coda competes with, and how they differ.
Notion leads with a lighter-weight blocks-and-pages editor and a shallower learning curve; Coda leans harder into spreadsheet-grade tables, formulas, and packaged automations aimed at structured team workflows.
1 product reviewed on TopReviewedGoogle Docs and Sheets ship free with near-universal distribution and simple real-time co-editing; Coda charges for a more powerful "doc-as-app" model with built-in relational tables and automations that Workspace lacks natively.
6 products reviewed on TopReviewedAirtable is database-first — grids, views, and relational records — with docs as a secondary layer; Coda is document-first, embedding tables inside narrative pages and targeting team wikis over pure data operations.
1 product reviewed on TopReviewedConfluence targets enterprise engineering and IT wikis tightly bundled with Jira; Coda is faster to stand up for cross-functional teams but ships less enterprise governance and permissioning tooling out of the box.
2 products reviewed on TopReviewedClickUp is task-and-project-management-first with docs bolted on; Coda is document-first, building tasks and workflows out of tables for teams that want the doc itself to function as the app.
1 product reviewed on TopReviewedKey milestones in Coda's history, with sources.
Acquired by Grammarly; Co-founder Shishir Mehrotra Named New CEO
Grammarly announced it was acquiring Coda; financial terms were not disclosed. Coda co-founder and CEO Shishir Mehrotra became Grammarly's new CEO, with outgoing Grammarly CEO Rahul Roy-Chowdhury staying on as an adviser.
techcrunch.comSeries D — $100M Led by Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan at $1.4B Valuation
Coda raised $100 million in a round led by the Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan (OTPP), a year after Kleiner Perkins led its Series C, valuing the company at $1.4 billion.
forbes.comSeries C — $80M Led by Kleiner Perkins at $636M Valuation
Coda raised $80 million in a round led by Kleiner Perkins, joined by existing investors Greylock, Khosla Ventures, and General Catalyst, valuing the company at $636 million, the company told Forbes.
forbes.comCoda 1.0 Launches Out of Beta With iOS App
Coda exited its multi-year private beta and launched Coda 1.0 publicly alongside an iOS app, positioning documents as programmable apps that combine docs, tables, and automations.
techcrunch.comCoda Founded by Shishir Mehrotra and Alex DeNeui
Shishir Mehrotra (former YouTube chief product officer) and Alex DeNeui founded Coda in 2014, spending nearly five years in private development before publicly launching Coda 1.0 in February 2019.
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