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Future Unicorn🦄 #209: Knoetic

Software and community for chief people officers

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

Knoetic is a social network and a SaaS analytics tool for people leaders. By embedding its exclusive social network of 1,000+ world-class Chief People Officers, CPOHQ, directly into its people analytics software, the resulting "Insight Engine" gives CPOs both quantitative and qualitative insights, enabling them to make smarter, holistic decisions about their workforce.

Founders: Joseph

Signals:

  1. Repeat founder

    1. Joseph founded Twine where he experimented with a few products before spinning out Knoetic

  2. Top company alumni

    1. Joseph worked at Nike (2 yrs)

  3. Top investors

    1. EQT Ventures led series B

    2. Accel co-led series A

    3. Pear VC co-led series A

    4. Menlo Ventures participated in series B

  4. Top university alumni

    1. Joseph graduated from UC Berkeley (BS) and University of Pennsylvania (MBA)

  5. Accelerated financing

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

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