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<ul><li>Retool is transforming from a drag-and-drop CRUD builder into an AI-powered internal tools platform where engineering teams can ship production-grade apps from natural language.</li><li>Sacra estimates Retool hit $120M ARR in October 2025, up from $90M at the end of 2024.</li><li>Following Retool’s launch of AppGen (April 2025) and Agents (May 2025) layering on AI prompting credits and agent hours as units of monetization.</li></ul>

Retool is transforming from a drag-and-drop CRUD builder into an AI-powered internal tools platform where engineering teams can ship production-grade apps from natural language.Sacra estimates Retool hit $120M ARR in October 2025, up from $90M at the end of 2024.Following Retool’s launch of AppGen (April 2025) and Agents (May 2025) layering on AI prompting credits and agent hours as units of monetization.

<ul><li>Sacra estimates that Retool hit $120M in annual recurring revenue (ARR) in October 2025, up from $90M at the end of 2024.</li><li>Retool raised a $45M Series C in July 2022 at a $3.2B valuation, led by Sequoia Capital with participation from notable investors.</li><li>The introduction of Agents and AppGen represents Retool&#39;s expansion into AI-driven business process automation.</li></ul>

Sacra estimates that Retool hit $120M in annual recurring revenue (ARR) in October 2025, up from $90M at the end of 2024.Retool raised a $45M Series C in July 2022 at a $3.2B valuation, led by Sequoia Capital with participation from notable investors.The introduction of Agents and AppGen represents Retool&#39;s expansion into AI-driven business process automation.

<ul><li>Today, Sacra estimates that Airtable is at $375M ARR, up 50% YoY, with a valuation range of $2.3B to $5.3B given the multiples of comps like Asana (NYSE: ASAN), Smartsheet (NYSE: SMAR) and Monday.com (NASDAQ: MNDY).</li><li>In September 2023, Twitter erupted in hand-wringing over Airtable’s valuation based on incorrect reports that they were at $148M ARR growing 14% year-over-year—Sacra estimates that Airtable hit $375M annual recurring revenue (ARR) at the end of 2023, up 50% YoY with roughly 166,000 paying companies as customers.</li><li>From December 2022 to September 2023, Airtable laid off 40% of their team (487 people) to reduce burn and narrow their focus on selling efficiently into the enterprise segment where they’ve had 100% year-over-year revenue growth and 170% net dollar retention.</li></ul>

Today, Sacra estimates that Airtable is at $375M ARR, up 50% YoY, with a valuation range of $2.3B to $5.3B given the multiples of comps like Asana (NYSE: ASAN), Smartsheet (NYSE: SMAR) and Monday.com (NASDAQ: MNDY).In September 2023, Twitter erupted in hand-wringing over Airtable’s valuation based on incorrect reports that they were at $148M ARR growing 14% year-over-year—Sacra estimates that Airtable hit $375M annual recurring revenue (ARR) at the end of 2023, up 50% YoY with roughly 166,000 paying companies as customers.From December 2022 to September 2023, Airtable laid off 40% of their team (487 people) to reduce burn and narrow their focus on selling efficiently into the enterprise segment where they’ve had 100% year-over-year revenue growth and 170% net dollar retention.

<ul><li>Refine uses an open-core business model.</li><li>Future plans involve transitioning from a framework to a platform, offering cloud tools, connectors, and other components.</li><li>In the future, Refine aims to expand its cloud offering, transitioning from just a framework to a more comprehensive platform.</li></ul>

Refine uses an open-core business model.Future plans involve transitioning from a framework to a platform, offering cloud tools, connectors, and other components.In the future, Refine aims to expand its cloud offering, transitioning from just a framework to a more comprehensive platform.

<ul><li>The early use cases were simple CRUD applications where somebody was displaying data from their database in a table and then providing a form to edit and update that data or add new data.</li><li>Today of course, we have a lot of Fortune 100, Fortune 500 companies using us where people will have thousands of users on Appsmith.</li><li>Appsmith today has around 10,000 companies that use us every month, but we have sent zero cold emails and we have never run ads.</li></ul>

The early use cases were simple CRUD applications where somebody was displaying data from their database in a table and then providing a form to edit and update that data or add new data.Today of course, we have a lot of Fortune 100, Fortune 500 companies using us where people will have thousands of users on Appsmith.Appsmith today has around 10,000 companies that use us every month, but we have sent zero cold emails and we have never run ads.

Abhishek Nayak, CEO Of Appsmith, On Building An Open Source Internal Tool Builder

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TL;DR: Retool is transforming from a drag-and-drop CRUD builder into an AI-powered internal tools platform where engineering teams can ship...

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Primer: Retool - 13 Nov 2025

Tool for developers to build internal apps on top of production data sources

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Airtable At $375M ARR

TL;DR: Last fall, incorrect reports that Airtable’s revenue was merely $148M ARR after 7 years and $1.4B raised triggered a wave of hand-wringing...

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Primer: Refine - 06 Oct 2023

Open-source React framework for building customizable CRUD-heavy admin panels and dashboards

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Abhishek Nayak, CEO Of Appsmith, On Building An Open Source Internal Tool Builder

Sacra interview with Abhishek Nayak, CEO and co-founder of Appsmith.

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