Over 13 million euros for Rows

In a recent round of funding, Rows not only won over venture capitalist Lakestar, but also its legacy investors.

The start-up Rows has already undergone two name changes and a complete reorientation. Now it has raised €13.2 million in a recent funding round. Venture capitalist Lakestar from Berlin leads the round, with existing investors Cherry Ventures and Atlantic Labs. In addition, Christian Reber, initiator of Wunderlist, joins the supervisory board of Rows and also participates financially. According to the commercial register, the financing has already taken place in October.

Torben Schulz and Humberto Ayres Pereira founded the delivery service Eatfirst in 2016, which failed a short time later. Their experience with Google Sheets then gave rise to the idea for the startup Rows, which until November 2020 was still called Dashdash. Rows' SaaS model offers an alternative to Excel, while also allowing you to integrate external data sources from LinkedIn or Twitter, for example. Spreadsheets can also be turned into web apps.

The funding round also marked the release of the beta version of the spreadsheet program. So far, there have been 1,000 businesses like Just Eat Takeaway that have tested the offering. It now aims to have 1,000 paying customers by the end of the year. Rows has offices in Berlin and Porto and 50 employees.