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Quild #42: Ponder

Enterprise pandas

10 Mar

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

Ponder Data provides enterprise-ready tools for rapid, flexible experimentation with data at scale. Ponder makes data teams more productive by enabling them to get insights faster with tools they know and love.

Founders: Devi (CTO), Doris (CEO), Aditya (President)

Signals:

  1. Top company/institution alumni

    1. Devi worked as an ML engineer at Intel for 1 year

    2. Aditya is an associate professor at UC Berkeley and used to teach at UI Urbana-Champaign

  2. Top university alumni

    1. Devi graduated from UC Berkeley (MS, PhD)

    2. Doris graduated from UC Berkeley (BS, PhD)

    3. Aditya graduated from Stanford University (PhD) and MIT (PostDoc)

  3. Accelerated financing

    1. Founded mid-2021, announced seed in March 2022

  4. Midas list investors

    1. Lightspeed led seed

    2. 8VC participated in seed

Till tomorrow, Kenn