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Quild #40: Monad

Security data cloud platform

08 Mar

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

Monad makes security data easy and accessible for DevOps and cloud engineering teams. Monad builds infrastructure to unite security data silos in your organization; normalize, transform, and enrich their data; and enable teams to build effective security and compliance workflows on the fly.

Founders: Christian (CEO), Jacolon (CTO)

Signals:

  1. Venture-backed and exited founder

    1. Christan co-founded Intrinsic (funded by NEA, a16z, First Round), which VMWare acquired

  2. Top company alumni

    1. Christian worked at VMWare for 9 months after getting acquired

    2. Jacolon worked as a security engineer at Xerox, Palantir, Collective Health and OpenDoor for 8 years

  3. Fast team growth

    1. Grew 3.5x YoY to 21 employees

    2. And hiring a bunch more

  4. Accelerated financing

    1. Founded and announced seed in 2020, series A in 2021

  5. Midas list investors

    1. Sequoia capital led seed

    2. Index Ventures led series A

Till tomorrow, Kenn