Quild Mini🦄 #156: Plural Labs

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

Plural makes it easy for companies to access and deploy the best open source solutions. They help enterprise developers establish a more direct relationship with open source maintainers, without the cost of cloud managed services standing between them.

Founders: Samuel, Michael

Signals:

1. Venture-backed experience

   1. Samuel built products at Unqork and MongoDB (pre-IPO) for several years

   2. Michael coded at Frame.io for a few years

2. Top company alumni

   1. Samuel worked at IBM & RedHat for a few years

   2. Michael worked at Amazon, Twitter, and Facebook for several years

3. Top university alumni

   1. Michael graduated from UNC Chapel Hill

4. Midas list investor

   1. Signal Fire led seed

   2. Susa Ventures participated in seed

5. Accelerated financing

   1. Founded 2021, seed in 2022

Till next time, Kenn