Future Unicorn🦄 #210: Arcwise

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

Arcwise is a platform for analytical but non-technical business users to build, publish, and maintain data and ML applications, all from their spreadsheet. They’re building a collaborative workspace to bridge the gap between business operators and technical data experts — ”arcing” the divide between notebooks and spreadsheets.

As someone who used to build ML models and live in spreadsheets, I can’t wait for their public launch.

Founders: Hanson, Rahul

Signals:

1. Top company alumni

   1. Hanson was a staff ML engineer at Meta (8 yrs)

   2. Rahul was a product and pricing manager at HSBC (4 yrs) and Flexport (5 yrs)

2. Top investor

   1. Sequoia led pre-seed

3. Top university alumni

   1. Hanson studied at University of Waterloo (BS)

   2. Rahul studied at University of Bristol (BS)

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