Glide is a San Francisco no-code app builder that turns spreadsheets and databases into mobile and web apps without writing code. Founded in 2018 by four former Xamarin engineers and launched out of Y Combinator's Winter 2019 batch, Glide lets anyone build software from data they already have. Since 2023 the company has leaned hard into AI - adding Glide AI, AI agents, and plain-language app generation - to pursue its stated mission of putting software creation into the hands of a billion new creators.
Abel Mengistu is the cofounder and CEO of FlutterFlow, the low-code visual app builder that has enabled over 2 million users to create production-ready Flutter applications without deep coding expertise. A former Google senior software engineer who worked on Google Maps and ATAP hardware, he co-founded FlutterFlow in 2020 with Alex Greaves after a failed restaurant-recommendation startup taught them the real bottleneck was app development complexity. Accepted into Y Combinator's Winter 2021 batch after applying past the deadline, they famously survived 'No-sleep November' to build FlutterFlow 1.0 in a single month. The company raised a $25.5M Series A from GV (Google Ventures) in January 2024, has grown to 173 employees, and in 2025 launched Dreamflow - an AI-powered builder that generates production-ready app screens in roughly 10 seconds.