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Quild Mini🦄 #142: Courier

Making multi-channel product notifications easier

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

Courier offers an API that lets developers intelligently route user notifications across their existing channels – like SendGrid, Twilio, Slack, and Facebook Messenger – using factors like "is the user online?" and "which channel has produced the most engagement for this user previously?"

Founders: Troy 

Signals:

  1. Repeat founder

    1. Troy founded Winmore, cloud software for logistics

  2. Venture-backed experience

    1. Troy led engineering at Eloqua (backed by Bessemer) through an IPO

  3. Fast team growth

    1. Grew 4.2x YoY to 150+ employees

  4. Midas list investors

    1. Bessemer led series A

    2. GV led series B

Till tomorrow, Kenn