Anna Monaco, who has been building AI agents since before the term became popular, is rethinking how spreadsheets work. Her start-up Paradigm has created an AI-powered spreadsheet that integrates more than 5,000 AI agents capable of crawling the web, pulling CRM data, and automating workflows.
Users can assign prompts to individual cells or columns, with support for models from Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google’s Gemini. Monaco says Paradigm’s flexibility lets users balance cost and reasoning quality by switching between models.
Paradigm launched a closed beta in late 2024 and has already attracted early adopters like EY, AI chip startup Etched, and AI coding company Cognition. The company operates on a subscription model and is now opening access to the public.
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To fuel growth, Paradigm has raised a $5 million seed round led by General Catalyst, bringing total funding to $7 million. Monaco says the capital will go toward an “extremely aggressive product roadmap.”
Paradigm joins a crowded space where rivals like Quadratic, along with incumbents Google and Microsoft, are racing to bring AI into spreadsheets. Still, Monaco insists Paradigm isn’t just an AI spreadsheet: “It’s a new AI-powered workflow that happens to look like one right now.”
