spreadsheet
(3)
Your Spreadsheet Is Lying About Being A Database
Airtable, Coda and Smartsheet all look like grids. Only one of them actually links records the way a database does - and that difference decides what you can build.
Equals
Equals is a next-generation spreadsheet built for business analytics. Founded by two Intercom veterans, it pairs the familiar spreadsheet grid with live connections to data warehouses and business tools, version control, real-time collaboration and, more recently, AI-assisted analysis. The company positions itself as 'AI for the numbers that can't be wrong,' aiming to give finance and go-to-market teams a single, trustworthy place to model ARR, pipeline, retention and other core metrics without exporting CSVs or standing up heavyweight BI stacks.
Mitch Kapor
Mitch Kapor is the Brooklyn-born software pioneer who created Lotus 1-2-3 - the killer app that made the IBM PC indispensable - then co-founded the Electronic Frontier Foundation to protect digital civil liberties, and eventually built Kapor Capital into one of venture capital's most deliberately diverse funds. At 74, he made headlines completing the MIT Sloan master's degree he started in 1979 before leaving to launch Lotus. He and his wife Freada Kapor Klein run Kapor Capital from Oakland, investing in founders building tech for underserved communities - arguing that inclusion isn't charity, it's good business.