Future Unicorn🦄 #200: Flatfile

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

Flatfile is a provider of a data onboarding platform used to import, map, and normalize customer data exchange from spreadsheets into software applications. The platform uncovers more fine-grained issues that can detect when a spreadsheet is missing columns, as well as determine if numerical values were placed in a section of a spreadsheet meant to store text.

Founders: David, Eric

Signals:

1. Repeat founder

   1. David founded Rainmaker which helps causes & organizations raise money and engage with donors

2. Venture-backed experience

   1. David was a platform architect Envoy (2+ yrs)

   2. Eric built products at Envoy (2+ yrs)

3. Top university alumni

   1. Eric graduated from Georgia Tech (MBA) and Emory University (BS)

4. Fast team growth

   1. Grew 1.6x YoY to 88 employees

   2. And hiring more

5. Top investors

   1. Tiger Global led series B

   2. Scale Venture led series A

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