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Quild Mini🦄 #135: Cube

Spreadsheet-native FP&A

16 Jun

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

Cube is a spreadsheet-native FP&A platform that focuses on meeting strategic finance teams where they already live and enhancing the workflows they use every day. By pairing the ease and familiarity of Excel & Google Sheets with the structure of a purpose-built FP&A platform, Cube helps companies of all sizes plan and analyze for the unexpected and stay ahead of changes.

Founders: Christina (CEO), Josh (CTO)

Signals:

  1. Repeat founder

    1. Josh dropped out of school to work on StageBloc, a marketing tech startup acquired by Fullscreen Media

  2. Venture-backed experience

    1. Christina led finance for Rent The Runway, Criteo, and Eyeview for several years

    2. Josh worked at Fullscreen Media after getting acquired

  3. Top company alumni

    1. Christina worked at Deloitte and GE for several years

  4. Top university alumni

    1. Christina graduated from UMass Amherst (Bachelor)

    2. Side note: Josh dropped out of UI Urbana-Champaign to work on his startup StageBloc

  5. Fast growth

    1. Grew ARR 400%

    2. Grew employees 2x YoY to 80 employees

    3. And hiring alot

  6. Midas list investors

    1. Battery Ventures led series B

    2. Mayfield led series A

Till tomorrow, Kenn