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Quild Mini🦄 #149: Baserow

Open-source Airtable alternative

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

Baserow is an open-source online database tool. Users can use this no-code platform to create a database without any technical experience. It lowers the barriers to app creation so that anyone who can work with a spreadsheet can also create a database. The interface looks a lot like a spreadsheet.

Founders: Bram (CEO), Olivier (CRO)

Signals:

  1. Repeat founder

    1. Bram founded letstart (not much public info on it)

  2. Venture-backed experience

    1. Olivier led sales for Mendix (funded by Battery Ventures, acquired by Siemens) and Rancher Labs (funded by Mayfield and Tesltra Ventures, acquired by SUSE)

  3. Top company alumni

    1. Olivier was a general manager for Cisco for over 10 years

  4. Top university alumni

    1. Olivier graduated from KU Leuven (#45 at THE and #87 at QS rankings)

Till next time, Kenn