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Quild #31: LinearB

Visibility for engineering leaders

27 Feb

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

LinearB helps engineering leaders, managers and developers improve on a daily basis. They correlate hundreds of signals every hour across code, Git, project issues, releases and incidents to decrease bottlenecks, improve quality, increase planning accuracy, ship more features in less time and tighten alignment to your business.

Founders: Dan Lines (COO), Ori Keren (CEO)

Signals:

  1. Venture-backed experience

    1. Both Dan and Ori led engineering teams at CloudLock (funded by Bessemer and Salesforce), which Cisco acquired for $293M

    2. Ori was an engineer at Interwise (funded by GE Capital, Lazard, SAP), which AT&T acquired for $121M

  2. Top company alumni

    1. Dan worked as an engineer at Cisco and Nuance Communications for 2 years

    2. Ori worked as an engineer at AT&T for 2 years

  3. Fast team growth

    1. 2.8x YoY to 57 employees

    2. And hiring more

  4. Midas list investors

    1. Battery Ventures led series A

Till tomorrow, Kenn