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Quild Mini🦄 #109: Middesk

(Resending w/ corrected title) Check the backgrounds of companies you're doing business with

15 May

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

Middesk helps businesses conduct background checks on other businesses. It centralizes the information necessary to conduct risk and compliance assessments on each of your customers. Companies that manage regulatory requirements use Middesk for verifying and screening their customers.

Founders: Kyle (CEO), Kurt (CTO)

Signals:

  1. Venture-backed experience

    1. Kyle (4 years) and Kurt (3 years) worked at Checkr for 4 years. Checkr does background checks for individuals (raised $679 million to date from Durable Capital, T. Rowe, Accel)

  2. Top company alumni

    1. Kurt was an engineer at Zendesk for over 2 years

  3. Top university alumni

    1. Kurt graduated from UC Berkeley (BS)

  4. Fast team growth

    1. Grew 2.4x YoY to 64 employees

    2. Hiring a bunch more

  5. Midas list investors

    1. Sequoia led series A

    2. Accel led seed

Till tomorrow, Kenn