Airplane, a San Francisco, CA-based software-as-a-service (SaaS) development platform, closed a $32 million Series B funding round led by Thrive Capital with participation from Benchmark, bringing the startup’s total raised to $40.5 million.

I interviewed Ravi Parikh, Co-Founder at Airplane. He is also the former co-founder of Heap. Ravi is on a mission to automate the harder part of admin tools in applications. This is the behind-the-scenes code necessary to run your applications.

Airplane has a sales and PLG led motion. His former founder background helped with current capital raises.

Segment co-founder Calvin French-Owen, Confluent co-founder Neha Narkhede, former GitHub CEO Nat Friedman, Vercel CEO Guillermo Rauch, Airtable co-founders Howie Liu and Andrew Ofstad, Allison Pickens from The New Normal Fund, Behance founder Scott Belsky, Jaren Glover, Gokul Rajaram, Liu Jiang, Comma Capital, and several others also participated in the round.

The funds will be put toward growing Airplane’s team while expanding its product to new markets.

• Founded in December 2020
• Staff of 20
• $40.5M Raised
• Sub 10M ARR
• SLG + PLG
• Developer Tools

Ravi Parikh’s LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/raviparikh2/

SaaS Fundraising Story: https://www.thesaasnews.com/news/airplane-raises-32-million-in-series-b

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