Superhuman Acquires Berlin-based spreadsheet startup Rows

Berlin-founded spreadsheet startup Rows is joining Superhuman, the companies announced in a joint post, and will gradually wind down the Rows product over the next three months. Rows.com will be fully shut down on May 31, 2026, the founders said, and current customers will receive detailed instructions and support during the transition.

Rows, founded in 2017 to modernise spreadsheet workflows, said Superhuman has agreed to acquire the team and its technology. The company highlighted its traction: more than 2.2 million users, over 17 billion spreadsheet functions executed, 8.3 billion imports from business tools, and some 800,000 AI Analyst prompts run through the product.

“We started Rows in 2017 to bring modern computing skills to spreadsheet users,” Humberto Ayres Pereira and Torben Schulz wrote on the Rows blog. The post described the acquisition as an opportunity to apply Rows’ data-integration and AI experience at a broader scale inside Superhuman’s productivity ecosystem.

Rows framed the move as strategic: Superhuman “brings together Grammarly, Mail, Coda, and Go into a connected AI productivity suite,” the announcement said. Rows plans to focus on strengthening Coda’s data capabilities and contributing to the wider Superhuman platform.

“Joining Superhuman gives us the opportunity to apply our experience on a broader scale,” Humberto Ayres Pereira and Torben Schulz wrote on the Rows blog. Their team highlights expertise in reliable integrations with live business data, transforming and visualising datasets, and building AI systems to convert raw data into plain-language answers — features that map closely to where Coda and other collaboration tools have been pushing.

“We are committed to supporting our customers throughout this period to ensure a smooth process,” the founders wrote on the company blog. They also thanked the community: “We are deeply grateful to everyone who has supported Rows over the years — our customers, our team, our investors, and our partners.”

For Rows’ founders, the exit is framed as the next chapter, not an endpoint. “While this chapter is coming to a close, we’re excited for what’s ahead as we bring our experience into Superhuman and continue building tools that help people do their best work,” Humberto Ayres Pereira and Torben Schulz wrote on the Rows blog.