Startup profile for Blockspring: latest funding, latest known valuation, total disclosed funding, investors, status, sources, and why the company is interesting. Part of the Venture Capital Tracker startup directory.
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Blockspring funding, valuation and investors

API data connectors for spreadsheets (Excel and Google Sheets).

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Funding, valuation & investors

Answer-first snapshot

Latest funding

Series A

$3.4M · July 2015

Latest known valuation

Not publicly disclosed

Total disclosed equity funding

$3.4M

Excludes debt, grants, acquisitions, secondaries, and IPO proceeds.

Current status

acquired

acquired

Investors in latest funding

Lead: Andreessen Horowitz

Sources: latest funding Last verified: 2026-07-25

Overview

Blockspring connected APIs to spreadsheets — letting analysts pull live data into Excel and Google Sheets without writing code. a16z led a $3.4M Series A in 2015. Coinbase acquihired the San Francisco team in January 2019; the product continued temporarily for existing customers while engineers joined Coinbase.

Why Blockspring is interesting

Blockspring let analysts pull live API data into spreadsheets — a16z led a $3.4M round before Coinbase acquihired the team in 2019.

Product & use cases

API-to-spreadsheet connectors for Excel and Google Sheets — no-code data pulls from REST APIs.

  • Analyst workflows pulling live API data into spreadsheets
  • Marketing ops connecting SaaS tools to Sheets
  • Lightweight ETL for non-engineers

Key facts

  • Acquired by Coinbase (Jan 2019): acquihire; product continued for customers (TechCrunch)
  • Series A (Jul 2015): $3.4M led by a16z; SV Angel participated (a16z announcement)
  • Co-investors: no additional institutional investors disclosed in public sources reviewed 2026-07-24
  • Source: https://techcrunch.com/2019/01/17/coinbase-acquihires-san-francisco-startup-blockspring/

Funding history (newest first)

Series A

2015-07 $3.4M

Source: https://techcrunch.com/2019/01/17/coinbase-acquihires-san-francisco-startup-blockspring/

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Andreessen Horowitz

Competitive landscape

Edge: Blockspring differentiates through focused product scope and a16z-backed GTM in its category — see competitors for tradeoffs vs. incumbents.

Blockspring operates in a competitive category where incumbents have distribution but startups win on workflow fit. See named competitors for honest better/worse notes; we do not invent market share.

  • Zapier adjacent

    Broader automation; Blockspring spreadsheet-native.

  • Supermetrics direct

    Marketing data into spreadsheets; similar analyst wedge.

Notable stories

  • Coinbase acquihired Blockspring in 2019 — team joined while product briefly continued for customers.

Industries

Developer Tools Enterprise SaaS

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API-to-spreadsheet connectors for Excel and Google Sheets — no-code data pulls from REST APIs.
Andreessen Horowitz (/fund/andreessen-horowitz) among disclosed investors. See fundraising rounds and investors[] for co-investors in our directory.
We track a16z-backed companies strategically relevant for founders mapping competitors and investors following active theses.
Stage: acquired; status: acquired.
See fundraisingRounds — amounts included only when verified in press or company announcements.
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Tagged: developer-tools, enterprise-saas.
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