Coda is a cloud-based multi-user document editor.
Features
Coda is a document editor that uses features from spreadsheets, presentation documents, word processor files, and apps.
Possible uses for Coda documents include using them as a wiki, database, or project management tool.
Coda has built a formula system, much like spreadsheets commonly have, but in Coda documents, formulas can be used anywhere within the document, and can link to things that aren't just cells, including other documents, calendars or graphs.
Coda also has the ability to integrate with custom third-party services,
and has automations.
It has offered $1 million in grants for developers that create such integrations.
Development
Coda Project, Inc. was founded by Shishir Mehrotra and Alex DeNeui in June 2014, who met at
MIT
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a private land-grant research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Established in 1861, MIT has played a key role in the development of modern technology and science, and is one of the m ...
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They developed the project mostly privately before a public beta was announced in October 2017.
The company was named Coda, which is an
anadrome
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for "a doc".
Coda raised $60 million in venture capital funding over two rounds by 2017.
The Coda software came out of beta in February 2019.
Version 1.0 had an improved user interface, new features for folders and workspaces, and permission levels for accessing files. Coda raised another $80 million in 2020,
and $100 million in 2021. The 2021, funding brought Coda's valuation to $1.4 billion, making it a
unicorn
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In European literature and art, the unicorn has for the last thousand years o ...
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See also
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Cloud collaboration
Cloud collaboration is a method of sharing and co-authoring computer files via cloud computing, whereby documents are uploaded to a central "cloud" for storage, where they can then be accessed by other users.
Cloud collaboration technologies allow ...
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Collaborative software
Collaborative software or groupware is application software designed to help people working on a common task to attain their goals. One of the earliest definitions of groupware is "intentional group processes plus software to support them".
As re ...
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Collaborative real-time editor
A collaborative real-time editor is a type of collaborative software or web application which enables real-time collaborative editing, simultaneous editing, or live editing of the same digital document, computer file or cloud-stored data – s ...
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Document collaboration
Document and file collaboration are the tools or systems set up to help multiple people work together on a single document or file to achieve a single final version. Normally, this is software that allows teams to work on a single document, such as ...
References
External links
* {{Official website, https://coda.io/
Collaborative real-time editors
Web applications
Online word processors
Online spreadsheets