Quild Mini🦄 #108: Predibase

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

Predibase is the first enterprise declarative machine learning platform. Declarative machine learning provides the best of flexibility and simplicity to enable the fastest-way to operationalize state-of-the-art models. Users focus on specifying the “what”, and the system figures out the “how”.

Full-time founders: Piero (CEO), Travis (CTO), Devvret (CPO), Chris Re

Signals:

1. Repeat founder

   1. Chris Re is an associate professor at Stanford. He has co-founded and sold multiple companies: Lattice which Apple bought. SambaNova which raised $676 million for series D. Snorkel AI which raised $85 million for series C

2. Top company alumni

   1. Piero was a machine learning researcher at Uber and IBM for over 4 years. He was one of the founding members of Uber AI where he authored Ludwig, an open-source declarative deep learning framework

   2. Travis was an engineer at Uber, Google, and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory for 8 years. He co-authored Horovod, an open-source distributed deep learning training framework

   3. Devvret built AI products at Google for over 4 years. He was the first product manager for Kaggle, the largest machine learning community

3. Top university alumni

   1. Travis graduated from Harvard (MS)

   2. Devvret graduated from Harvard (BS, AB)

   3. Chris graduated from Cornell (BS) and University of Washington (PhD)

4. Fast team growth

   1. Grew to 16 employees in 1 year

5. Accelerated financing

   1. Founded in 2021, series A in 2022

6. Midas list investors

   1. Greylock led series A

Till tomorrow, Kenn