Quild Mini🦄 #110: Databand

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Databand is an observability platform for data engineering teams. Data engineering teams are responsible for managing a wide suite of powerful tools, but lack the utilities they need to make sure their ops are running properly. Databand fills this gap with a solution that enables teams to gain a global view of their data flows, make sure pipelines complete successfully, and keep tabs on resource consumption and costs.

Founders: Victor (CPO), Evgeny (CTO), Joshua (CEO)

Signals:

1. Venture-backed experience

   1. Evgeny worked at Crosswise, a device ad-tech company, which Oracle acquired

   2. Joshua worked at Sisense, a BI & data management tool, which raised from Insight, Bessemer, DFJ Growth, Battery Ventures

2. Top company alumni

   1. Victor was a researcher at SAP and NICE for over 7 years

   2. Evgeny was an engineer at Intel for 7 years

3. Top university alumni

   1. Joshua graduated from Cornell (BS)

4. Accelerated financing

   1. Founded in 2018, seed in 2019, series A in 2020

5. Midas list investors

   1. Accel led series A

   2. Bessemer participated in series A

Till tomorrow, Kenn