Quild #71: Ascend.io

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

Ascend.io provides advanced automation for data and analytics engineering workloads. Ascend unifies the core capabilities of data engineering—data ingestion, transformation, delivery, orchestration, and observability—into a single platform so that data teams deliver 10x faster.

Founder: Sean

Signals:

1. Repeat venture-backed exited founder

   1. Sean founded Ooyala (raised from Sierra Ventures and others), which Brightcove bought

2. Top company alumni

   1. Sean was an engineer at Google for 3 years

3. Top university alumni

   1. Sean graduated from Stanford (BS, MS)

4. Midas list investors

   1. Tiger Global led series B

   2. Accel led series A

   3. Lightspeed and Sequoia co-led seed

   4. Felicis participated in series A

   5. 8VC participated in series A

Note: Team hasn’t grown much over the past year, but after raising series B they now have a lot of job openings - check it out here.

Till tomorrow, Kenn