Quild #65: Cloudsmith

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

Cloudsmith is the leading Continuous Packaging platform for engineers looking to set up a secure, cloud-native artifact repository in 60 seconds. Cloudsmith offers support for 24+ formats, has 225 points of presence and integrates with all of the tools engineers already use and love.

Active Founders: Alan (CEO), Lee (CTO)

Signals:

1. Repeat founders

   1. Alan and Lee co-founded Vulcan Financial, a software shop for financial market data

   2. Lee earlier co-founded Newzbin, which created the NZB file format

2. Top company alumni

   1. Alan and Lee both worked as engineers at NYSE for a few years

3. Fast team growth

   1. Grew 2.7x YoY to 35 employees

   2. And hiring a bunch more

4. Midas list investors

   1. Tiger led series A

Till tomorrow, Kenn