Rowy Inc.

Based in New York, US, and founded in 2021, Rowy Inc. operates as a software-as-a-service (SaaS) company offering a low-code platform to users and developers. In December 2022, the firm raised USD 3 million in seed funding led by investor Worklife Ventures, with participation from individual investors. The firm as of December 2022 is led by its co-founder and CEO, Harini Janakiraman.

The company’s low-code or no-code platform makes building apps or software’s backend functionality and database as easy as using spreadsheets, through a scalable cloud platform like Google Cloud. The user or developer needs to connect their database which is managed in the spreadsheet-like UI (user interface) with the company’s platform and create or write cloud functions in the browser. Rowy also features integration with frameworks like NEXT. JS, Vue.

js, Remix, Flutter, Android, etc, an option to write backend logic on the same screen, and demos for OpenAI GPT-3, Google Cloud Vision, a Stable Diffusion to Twitter Bot, etc. The company generates its revenue by offering its software as a service platform under different pricing plans including the base plan at free of cost, pro plan at USD 12 per seat per month, etc. The company plans to utilize its December 2022, funding to expand the applicability of its platform to a broader set of back-end templates and offer more extensive demos.