Future Unicorn🦄 #202: Pigment

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

Pigment is a real-time business forecasting platform. Its platform helps organizations better visualize data and use it to power better business planning and forecasting. It also ingests data from many sources and crunches it in real-time and present it in an intuitive, full-spectrum view of the company.

Founders: Eleonore, Romain

Signals:

1. Repeat exited founder

   1. Romain was the founder of Criteo (NASDAQ:CRTO) and Less, which was acquired by Blablacar

2. Top company alumni

   1. Eleonore was a financial analyst at Google (3+ yrs) and Index Ventures (2 yrs)

   2. Romain was an engineer at Google (4+ yrs)

3. Fast team growth

   1. Grew 3x YoY to 170+ employees

   2. And hiring a lot more

4. Top investors

   1. IVP co-led series B+

   2. Meritech co-led series B+

   3. Greenoaks led series B

   4. FirstMark invested from seed to series B+

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