Future Unicorn🦄 #201: Kumo

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

Kumo.AI allows anyone in an organization to tackle predictive problems in business. It enables all non-technical and technical users, regardless of ML experience, to traverse all the major steps of a best practice ML lifecycle. The platform's users can immediately tackle a wide variety of predictive problems all in a single sitting.

Founders: Hema, Jure, Vanja

Signals:

1. Repeat exited founder

   1. Jure founded Kosei, an adtech startup acquired by Pinterest

2. Top company alumni and venture-backed operator experience

   1. Hema led engineering and research at LinkedIn (7+ yrs), IBM (3+ yrs) and Yahoo! (3+ yrs)

   2. Jure was the chief scientist at Pinterest (7 yrs)

   3. Vanja led engineering at Google (3 yrs), Pinterest (4+ yrs), and Airbnb (3+ yrs)

3. Top university alumni

   1. Hema graduated from University of Massachusetts Amherst (PhD)

   2. Jure graduated from Carnegie Mellon (PhD) and Cornell University (Post-doc)

4. Fast team growth

   1. Grew 3.8x YoY to 30+ employees

   2. And hiring alot more

5. Midas list investor

   1. Sequoia led series A and B

6. Accelerated financing

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

Favorite restaurant at the moment: Birdbox, a fried chicken shop 🐔. It was a pandemic project that became so popular that the owners started a standalone restaurant.