Future Unicorn🦄 #193: CelerData

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

CelerData, powered by StarRocks, enables enterprises to quickly and easily grow their business with a real-time analytical engine that is 3X the performance/cost of any other solution on the market. StarRocks is used worldwide by market-leading brands including Airbnb, Lenovo, and Trip.com.

Founders: Andy (COO), James (CEO)

Signals:

1. Repeat founders

   1. James founded AbleCloud, a cloud platform for IoT devices

2. Venture-backed experience

   1. Andy led R&D for Umeng when it was acquired by Alibaba, eventually becoming the CEO for the division. He was also the chief product officer for Xforceplus, a fintech unicorn

3. Top company alumni

   1. Andy worked at Baidu (3 yrs), Alibaba (2 yrs)

   2. James worked at Baidu (4+ yrs), Microsoft (1+ yrs)

4. Top university alumni

   1. Andy graduated from Zhejiang University (BS, MS)

5. Fast growth

   1. Grew 2.6x YoY to 74 employees

   2. And hiring more (remotely)

   3. Grew to 3.3K Github stars today, one year after launch