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The Project Tool You Already Bought Is Winning
Google's unbundled mix of Tasks, Sheets and Chat can be enough for teams that already live in Workspace. Microsoft and Zoho make the case for paying more only when the work becomes more complex.
Albert Gozzi
He started Aleph in a pandemic apartment because every finance tool he'd used either felt ancient or tried to pull him out of the spreadsheet. Then he heard no 75 times - and raised a Series B anyway.
thorntale
thorntale (YC W24) is a San Francisco software company that built presentation tools for data storytelling. Instead of screenshotting charts from Looker or Snowflake into Google Slides, teams could connect live data sources directly into decks, so charts stayed interactive and up to date - even re-segmentable during a live Q&A. Founded in 2024 by data scientist Dori Wilson with engineers Ellen Hui and John Stimac, the company later pivoted toward an AI-powered presentation editor and shipped a free AI Presentation Review tool before winding the core Presentations product down at the end of 2025.
Coefficient
Coefficient is a Palo Alto software company that pipes live business data into the spreadsheets people already use. Its no-code connectors link Google Sheets and Microsoft Excel to more than 100 systems - Salesforce, HubSpot, Snowflake, QuickBooks, Shopify and more - with two-way sync, scheduled refreshes, alerts and AI-assisted dashboards. Founded in 2015 by Navneet Loiwal and Tommy Tsai, Coefficient has raised $24.7M and counts Zendesk, Spotify, Miro and Klaviyo among its users.
LiveFlow
LiveFlow is an AI-native accounting and financial operations platform that connects tools like QuickBooks Online and Xero to live dashboards in Google Sheets and Excel, automating financial reporting, multi-entity consolidation and month-end close. Founded in 2021 by former Revolut employees, the Y Combinator-backed company has grown from a spreadsheet-sync tool into 'Flow,' an agentic ERP used by more than 6,000 businesses - including Wendy's and Crumbl Cookies - and accounting firms such as BDO and KLR.
Zach Lloyd
Zach Lloyd is the founder and CEO of Warp, the Rust-based terminal that grew up into an agentic development environment. A former Google principal engineer who led the Docs and Sheets teams, he looked at the one tool every programmer touches and noticed it had barely changed in 40 years. Warp's answer: a command line that reads natural language, runs AI agents, and as of 2025 codes by prompt. The company has raised roughly $73-75M from Sequoia, GV, Dylan Field and Elad Gil, and went from its first $1M of ARR in 300-plus days to adding $1M every few days.