Glide
Headquarters
San Francisco, CAFounded
2018CEO / Founder
David SiegelEmployees
51-200Funding
Series A — $20MProducts
1 product listedAvg. AI Score
7.5/10Website
www.glideapps.com
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About Glide
Glide operates a no-code application development platform that enables users to build mobile and web applications without programming knowledge. The company was founded in 2018 by David Siegel and Jason Smith and is headquartered in San Francisco, California. The platform transforms Google Sheets and other data sources into functional applications.
Glide's platform allows users to create applications by connecting data sources such as Google Sheets, Airtable, and SQL databases, then designing user interfaces through drag-and-drop functionality. The company serves small businesses, enterprises, and individual creators who need to build internal tools, customer-facing applications, and workflow automation solutions. The platform includes features for user authentication, data visualization, and mobile-responsive design.
The company raised a $20 million Series A round in 2021 led by GV (Google Ventures) with participation from Homebrew and other investors. Glide has built a community of over 100,000 app creators and processes millions of app interactions monthly. The platform competes in the no-code development space alongside companies like Bubble, Webflow, and Airtable.
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Competitive Landscape
Who Glide competes with, and how they differ.
Also builds apps and client portals from Airtable/spreadsheet data, skewing toward internal-tool and client-portal use cases with stronger data-source support and a higher price point; like Glide, no native app-store publishing.
Natively publishes to the Apple App Store and Google Play, unlike Glide's web/PWA-only distribution, and lets builders start from UI before wiring up a database rather than requiring one upfront.
Far more powerful (and complex) no-code web-app builder with full workflow/logic control and a steep learning curve, aimed at builders willing to invest months rather than Glide's non-technical, spreadsheet-first audience.
Primarily a flexible database/collaboration platform whose own Interfaces feature lets teams build lightweight internal apps directly on their data, overlapping with Glide for teams already living in Airtable.
1 product reviewed on TopReviewed
AI-native "prompt-to-app" builder that generates full web apps (with exportable code) from natural-language descriptions, a newer and more AI-forward entry point than Glide's spreadsheet-to-template model.
1 product reviewed on TopReviewedCompany Timeline
Key milestones in Glide's history, with sources.
- Launch
Workflows automation exits beta
Glide's workflow-automation feature (Loops, App Interaction, Email Trigger and more) shipped out of beta as the platform leaned further into AI-driven business-process automation.
glideapps.com - Funding
Series A — $20M led by Benchmark
Benchmark general partner Miles Grimshaw joined the board; round included YC Continuity, First Round and SV Angel. Glide had reached 500,000 users building a million apps with only 15 employees.
techcrunch.com - Launch
Public launch out of Y Combinator Winter 2019
Glide launched turning spreadsheets into mobile apps with no code, later selected by TechCrunch as a top-10 startup of the YC W19 batch.
techcrunch.com - Founded
Founded by ex-Xamarin team
Founded by David Siegel, Jason Smith, Mark Probst and Antonio Garcia Aprea, who previously built cross-platform tooling together at Xamarin (acquired by Microsoft for $500M in 2016).
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