Paradigm's announcement of a $5 million seed round led by General Catalyst this week marks another venture bet (à la Airtable, Coda, Rows, Quadratic) on the idea that spreadsheets remain one of the most important pieces of business software. The company, founded in 2024 by 22-year-old Anna Monaco, is trying to prove that the familiar grid can be reengineered into something more powerful: a workspace where every cell has the capacity to operate as an autonomous AI agent.
Monaco’s motivation came from her own experience. “I had this personal pattern, and I noticed that a lot of other people had this pattern, of putting very important CRM data in spreadsheets just because it was the most flexible thing,” she told TechCrunch. “But it was actually a pain to maintain. There’s so m
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