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Retool, the leading application layer for AI, is honored to announce its recognition as the 2025 Databricks Emerging Partner of the Year. Presented at the annual Data + AI Summit, the award celebrates Retool’s deep integration with the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform, which has helped shared customers accelerate development, securely scale internal applications, and realize tangible business outcomes from AI investments.

Retool, the leading application layer for AI, today announced that companies like Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Databricks have already automated over 100 million hours of work using its platform. The company is also launching Agents, designed for developers to further automate human labor. Agents use LLMs for reasoning capabilities and Retool for taking action, ultimately accomplishing work autonomously. Additionally, Retool is introducing an industry-first capability: allowing developers to observe and manage Agents as they work, ensuring they are performing as intended and delivering business value.

Retool, the leading developer-focused software development platform, today announced the general availability of Retool for External Apps, the easiest way to build rich interactive portals and business applications for customers, vendors, and partners in hours (instead of months). Retool is used by thousands of companies from Fortune 10s to growth-stage startups including Airbnb, Amazon, Brex, Doordash, NBC, Mercedes, Rippling, and Plaid. With its roots in enabling businesses to build custom applications that power a company’s internal operations, Retool is now extending its expertise to help businesses create customized software applications for users outside of their corporate firewall.

Retool, the leading platform for internal software development, today released the findings from its second State of AI in Production survey. Retool is used by thousands of companies from Fortune 10s to growth-stage startups to build customized internal applications that solve business-critical problems. In September 2023, Retool launched Retool AI, which enables developers to design, develop, and deploy AI-powered applications and workflows quickly in a single platform.

Retool, the leading development platform for business software, today released the results of its first State of AI Survey, which polled over 1,500 technology workers including software developers, business and engineering leaders, executives, product managers, designers and more, to learn about how they are using and building with AI.

Retool, the leading development platform for business software, today announced general availability for Retool Workflows, an automation tool that helps developers speed up critical business processes. All new features give developers even more code-first control over automations and additional developer tools for monitoring and maintenance at scale.

Retool, the leading development platform for business software, today announced Retool AI, a suite of capabilities powered by OpenAI that help businesses build secure generative AI apps and workflows in Retool. By embedding these tools, Retool is addressing some of the most significant time, resource, and security constraints teams experience when building AI-powered software from scratch.

SAN FRANCISCO, July 13, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Retool, the leading enterprise application development platform used by global enterprises like Amazon, NBC, and Stripe, announced today that they are expanding their product offering beyond internal tools, to now supporting external business software, including applications and portals built for customers, partners, and vendors.

SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 19, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Retool, the developer platform for business software, today launched Retool Mobile in public beta, the fastest way for developers to build native apps for iOS and Android–even if they have no previous experience developing for mobile platforms.

SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 18, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Retool, a software development platform, announced today that Mark Schaaf has joined the company as its first Chief Operating Officer (COO). With over two decades of experience in the tech industry, including chapters as CTO at Instacart and Thumbtack, and as Senior Engineering Director at Google, Mark brings a uniquely technical perspective to the role.

Existing Investors Sequoia Capital, John and Patrick Collison, Nat Friedman, Elad Gil, Daniel Gross and Caryn Marooney participated in the round that values Retool at $3.2B