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Airtable lands $7.6M round to help build simple, extensible database apps

Airtable, an online database service whose motto is “organize everything,” has closed a $7.6 million series A round of funding. On top of that, it has also landed a Facebook executive.

The new executive is Francis Larkin, who spent five years in various marketing roles at Facebook, most recently as director of product marketing. He led the teams responsible for the first Facebook F8 conference, for implementing the “like” button, and the recent Instant Articles project, among other projects.

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