While this movement may have initially started with a focus on developers, it’s now expanded to providing tools for the average business user as well, said Chris Yin, a principal at Scale Venture Partners. At the time, developers wanted to write all the code themselves, but with ever-increasing workloads, that’s changed. “If I go back five, six, seven years ago, a lot of developers … a lot of them were naysayers,” said Ed Macosky, head of Product at integration platform Boomi. In those years, adoption was lower as well. “I think in the last two to three years, as we’ve seen the rise of such tools, the term low-code/no-code came because so many people can understand the value of it.” The concept existed, but Zinman and his team didn’t have the phrases to describe it to investors. “When we started the company back in 2013, there wasn't such a thing as low-code/ no-code,” said Eran Zinman, co-founder and co-CEO of. The low-code/no-code movement has been around for several years, but gained increasing prominence as the developer shortage and the need to digitize more business processes accelerated in the wake of the pandemic. And even with all the VC money tossed around, it’s pretty clear that low-code and no-code companies still haven’t had their breakout moment. While low-code tools require some understanding of programming languages, no-code tools only require basic logic, and generally employ a drag-and-drop user interface.ĭespite the market activity, industry experts and practitioners disagree on where the real value of the industry lies. It’s worth noting that although the terms are often lumped together, there is a distinction between low-code and no-code. Around late last year, there were “over 200-and-something low- and no-code startups, vendors, large companies like ourselves in this market,” said Marcus Torres, vice president and general manager of ServiceNow’s low-code platform App Engine. SaaS giants from ServiceNow and Salesforce to Microsoft all have their own brand of low-code and no-code development features. That funding has also gotten the attention of the platform players. To that tune, a wave of startups including Builder.ai and Genesis Global have raised $100 million or more to bring those promises to fruition. Low-code and no-code tools promise to do everything from solving the developer scarcity crisis to empowering the average business user to build applications. Startups and tech giants alike are all touting the efficacy of a new method of software development that proves to be faster, more efficient and more accessible than ever before. If you listen to its backers, the low-code/no-code movement has taken the enterprise tech industry by storm.
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