Quild #21: Supergrain

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

Supergrain is building data infrastructure to power modern business intelligence tools and data applications. With Supergrain, data analysts can define and manage business logic and metrics centrally, enabling business users to consume self-serve analytics in the tools of their choice. In doing so, Supergrain enables data teams to be more productive and organizations to become truly data-driven.

Founders: George Xing (CEO), Thomas Chen (CTO)

Signals:

1. Venture-backed experience

   1. George worked at Lyft from 2014 (pre-IPO) to 2020 (post-IPO)

   2. Thomas worked at Zynga at Series B, was on the founding team of Vurb (series A, acquired by Snap), and Uber from 2013-2017

2. Top company alumni

   1. George worked as an analyst at Morgan Stanley and Indigeogo for ~3 years

   2. Thomas worked as an engineer at Microsoft for ~2 years

3. Top university alumni

   1. George graduated with a BA in Economics & Computer Science from Princeton University

   2. Thomas graduated with a BS in Information Sciences from UC Irvine and an MEng in Computer Science from Cornell University

4. Accelerated financing

   1. Founded and seed funded in 2021

5. Midas list investor

   1. Benchmark led seed

Till tomorrow, Kenn