Quild Mini🦄 #120: Prophecy.io

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

Prophecy.io helps enterprises modernize their data engineering with open runtimes and hybrid cloud deployments. They do this by automatically migrating existing ETL workflows to Apache Spark and providing a full-stack data engineering product on Cloud Native infrastructure.

Active founders: Maciej, Raj (CEO), Vikas

Signals:

1. Repeat founder

   1. Maciej founded Researchably, a tool to make sense of biomedical research

2. Venture-backed experience

   1. Raj built products at Clustrix (before it got acquired by MariaDB) and Hortonworks (before it got acquired by Cloudera) for over 3 years

3. Top company alumni

   1. Raj was an engineer at Microsoft and NVIDIA for over 5 years

   2. Vikas led sales at Wipro, Genpact, and HP for over 15 years

4. Top university alumni

   1. Maciej graduated from University of Southhampton

5. Fast team growth

   1. Grew 1.7x YoY to 40 employees

   2. Hiring across the board

6. Midas list investor

   1. Insight Partners led series A

   2. Signal Fire led seed

Till tomorrow, Kenn