Quild #26: Acryl

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

Acryl Data empowers data teams with extreme productivity, using trusted, compliant data through a next-generation metadata platform powered by LinkedIn DataHub.

Founders: Shirshanka Das (CEO), Swaroop Jagadish (CTO)

Signals:

1. Top company alumni

   1. Shirshanka worked as an engineer at PayPal, Yahoo!, and LinkedIn for 16 years

   2. Swaroop worked as an engineer at Pivotal CRM, Yahoo!, Linkedin, and Airbnb for 15 years

2. Top university alumni

   1. Shirshanka graduated with a PhD in Computer Science from US Los Angeles

   2. Swaroop graduated with an MS in Computer Science from UC Santa Barbara

3. Fast team growth

   1. Grew 5x to 17 employees YoY

   2. And hiring more

4. Accelerated financing

   1. Founded in Jan 2021 and announced seed in June 2021

5. Midas list investors

   1. 8VC led seed

   2. Insight participated in seed

Till tomorrow, Kenn