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Future Unicorn🦄 #188: StarTree

Open-source real-time analytics

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Kenn So
12 Sep

The Quild Future Unicorn highlights one future of work early-stage startup with statistically significant signals of becoming a unicorn.

StarTree is a startup building a platform-as-service version of the Apache Pinot analytics platform. It is founded by the creators of Apache Pinot and inspired by the user-facing analytics revolution begun by companies like LinkedIn and Uber.

Founders: Kishore, Xiang

Signals:

  1. Top company alumni

    1. Kishore worked at Oracle (1+ yrs), Yahoo (5 yrs), LinkedIn (8+ yrs)

    2. Xiang worked at LinkedIn (2+ yrs), Uber (2+ yrs)

  2. Top university alumni

    1. Xiang graduated from Tsinghua University (BS) and Georgia Tech (MS)

  3. Fast team growth

    1. Grew 2x YoY to 80+ employees

    2. And hiring a lot more

  4. Midas list investors

    1. GGV led series B

    2. Bain Capital Ventures led series A

    3. CRV led series seed

  5. Accelerated financing

    1. Raised series A in 2021, series B in 2022