Quild Mini🦄 #118: Calixa

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

Calixa is a GTM platform that gives teams the product insights they need to find, close, and grow customers amidst a sea of self-serve signups. Calixa pulls together a company's data from 3rd party apps (Salesforce, Zendesk, Stripe, etc), data warehouses (Snowflake and BigQuery), and product event data (Segment, Amplitude) and turns it into an intuitive and actionable app layer for customer facing teams.

Founders: Thomas (CEO), Fred (CTO)

Signals:

1. Venture-backed experience

   1. Thomas led product and operations at Twilio (pre-IPO), Sift and Easypost for 5 years

   2. Fred coded and led engineering at Zillow (pre-IPO), TeachStreet (acquired by Amazon), Jambool (acquired by Google), and Sift for over 10 years

2. Top company alumni

   1. Thomas built products at Google for over 4 years

   2. Fred was a technical staff at Google for over 1 year

3. Top university alumni

   1. Thomas graduated from Brown (BS)

   2. Fred graduated from University of Toronto (BS)

4. Fast team growth

   1. Grew 2x YoY to 17 employees

   2. Looking for a growth manager and a senior software engineer

5. Accelerated financing

   1. Founded in 2020, seed and series A in 2021

6. Midas list investor

   1. Kleiner Perkins led seed and series A

Till tomorrow, Kenn