Despite 750 million people using spreadsheets daily, only 20% understand how to perform basic operations like VLOOKUP or pivot table creation. This gap leaves powerful insights locked away from most users. Sourcetable solves this problem by introducing natural language-powered spreadsheets, allowing users to direct complex operations without coding knowledge. Today, San Francisco-based AI startup Sourcetable has launched the world’s first autonomous spreadsheet powered by AI, designed to automate common analytical workflows. The company has also raised a $4.3 million seed funding round, led by Bee Partners, with participation from notable tech leaders, including Julien Chaumond (co-founder of Hugging Face), Preston-Werner Ventures (GitHub co-founder), Roger Bamford (Distinguished Architect at MongoDB), and James Beshara (Magic Mind co-founder). The funding will be used to accelerate product development and expand its AI-powered solutions into hospitals and broader industrial applications. With AI handling the analytical heavy lifting, Sourcetable aims to democratise data analysis and enhance productivity, enabling users of all skill levels to perform complex spreadsheet tasks efficiently. Sourcetable’s core innovation lies in its ‘self-driving’ autopilot mode that performs advanced spreadsheet tasks through voice and natural language commands. The platform completes a range of sophisticated tasks, including creating and editing financial models, building pivot tables even with messy data, cleaning and enriching datasets, generating charts and graphs, formatting and analysing entire workbooks, and integrating multiple data sources. Sourcetable’s AI goes beyond Google Sheets and Excel by interpreting context without manual range selection and seeking human clarification when necessary, reducing friction in complex workflows. What sets Sourcetable apart is its flexible model-agnostic approach. While Microsoft and Google rely on proprietary AI models, Sourcetable dynamically selects the best model for each task. The platform seamlessly integrates with models from industry leaders. This adaptability ensures that the company consistently leverages the latest AI innovations, keeping its platform at the cutting edge of spreadsheet automation. Sourcetable’s ambitions extend far beyond spreadsheets. The company is evolving into a full-scale platform for AI agents and applications, enabling seamless agent-to-agent interactions and serving as a data operating system for the web. With read/write capabilities to third-party systems on the horizon, Sourcetable isn’t just reinventing spreadsheets—it’s redefining how businesses interact with data, paving the way for a future where AI seamlessly integrates into all aspects of enterprise operations. ‘AI is the biggest platform shift since the browser, with a bigger opportunity for disruption. Sourcetable is building the AI spreadsheet for the next billion users, be they human or AI,’ said Eoin McMillan, CEO & Co-founder of Sourcetable. ‘As AI makes analysis easier, everybody will become an analyst. Sourcetable’s AI automation ushers in a new era of productivity and human cognition.’ Investors have expressed excitement about the product, viewing it as a transformative tool that democratizes data analysis.

ChatGPT meets Excel: Sourcetable raises $4.3M to launch world’s first AI-powered self-driving spreadsheet

Sourcetable, an AI startup based in San Francisco, has launched the world’s first autonomous spreadsheet powered by AI, aiming to democratize data analysis and enhance productivity. The company has raised a $4.3 million seed funding round led by Bee Partners, with participation from notable tech leaders like Julien Chaumond (co-founder of Hugging Face), Preston-Werner Ventures (GitHub co-founder), Roger Bamford (Distinguished Architect at MongoDB), and James Beshara (Magic Mind co-founder). This funding will be used to accelerate product development and expand into hospitals and broader industrial applications.