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Quild #10: WorkOS

Stripe for enterprise features

05 Feb

This is the Quild daily, highlighting one early-stage startup that has statistically significant signals of becoming a unicorn.

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WorkOS provides APIs to make applications enterprise-ready, with pre-built features and integrations required by IT admins. With WorkOS, users can start selling to enterprise customers with just a few lines of code.

Founder: Michael Grinich

Signals:

  1. Repeat venture-backed founder: Michael founded Nylas and left in 2017 to start WorkOS in 2018

  2. Top university graduate: Michael graduated BS Computer Science from MIT

  3. Fast growing team: ~2x from 15 to 29 employees in the past 6 months

  4. Midas list investors: Lightspeed led their seed

Till tomorrow, Kenn