Quild Mini🦄 #88: Common Room

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

Common Room brings community engagement, product usage, and customer data into a single place. They use intelligence to surface insights from across your entire community and provide tools to act on those insights directly from the app.

Founders: Viraj (CTO), Francis, Linda (CEO), Tom

Signals:

1. Repeat founder

   1. Tom founded Audiogalaxy, a personal music streaming service, acquired by Dropbox

2. Venture-backed experience

   1. Viraj worked at Dropbox and Convoy for 8 years

   2. Tom worked at Dropbox for almost 8 years

3. Top company alumni

   1. Virah worked as an engineer at Microsoft for over 5 years

   2. Francis worked at Facebook for over 10 years

   3. Linda worked in finance and marketing at Morgan Stanley and Amazon for 4 years

   4. Tom worked as an engineer at Microsoft for 2 years

4. Top university alumni

   1. Viraj graduated from UT Austin (BS)

   2. Francis graduated from University of Washington (BA)

   3. Linda graduated from Harvard University (AB)

   4. Tom graduated from UT Austin (BS)

5. Accelerated financing

   1. Founded 2020, announced seed and series A in 2020, series B in 2021

6. Fast team growth

   1. Grew 2.5x YoY to 53 employees

   2. And hiring more

7. Midas list investors

   1. Greylock led series B

   2. Index Ventures led series A and co-led seed

   3. Madrona Ventures co-led seed

Till tomorrow, Kenn