Quild #3: Lightup.ai

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

Lightup is an enterprise-grade data quality monitoring solution that can be up and running in minutes, providing organizations with an ideal solution for ensuring data quality for SQL data stores such as Snowflake and Databricks and streaming data sources including Kafka and Segment. Lightup continuously tracks the data going into and coming out of a software product to detect significant changes that are indicative of degradation in data quality.

Signals:

• Experienced repeat founder: Manu Bansal, co-founder & CEO, built and sold Uhana to VMWare

• Top company experience: Rajiv Ramanathan, co-founder, worked at Google for almost 5 years and VMWare for over 4 years before joining Uhana

• Top university graduates: Manu graduated from Stanford University and UC Los Angeles. Vivek Joshi, co-founder and VP Product, graduated from University of Michigan. Rajiv graduated from UI Urbana Champaign

• Strong team growth: Grew from 5 to 13 over the past year

• Midas list investors: Andreessen Horowitz

Till tomorrow, Kenn