Quild Mini🦄 #107: Alloy Automation

This is the Quild Minicorn, highlighting one future of work minicorn daily - early-stage startups with statistically significant signals of becoming a unicorn.

Alloy Automation is the control panel for ecommerce brands to organize data and automate actions across 180+ apps. In addition to customized workflows, Alloy enables users to start from a library of 100+ prebuilt recipes that top users of the platform have created.

Founders: Sara (CEO), Gregg (CTO)

Signals:

1. Top company alumni

   1. Gregg worked as an engineer at Fiserv for 2 years

2. Attended top universities - both are dropouts

   1. Sara dropped out of Harvard

   2. Gregg dropped out of Cornell

3. Fast team growth

   1. Grew 1.6x YoY to 24 employees

   2. And hiring

4. Accelerated financing

   1. Founded in 2019, YC in 2020, seed in 2021, series A in 2022

5. Midas list investors

   1. a16z led series A

   2. Bain Capital Ventures co-led seed

Till tomorrow, Kenn