Quild Mini🦄 #89: Tabular.io

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

Tabular is building an independent cloud-native data platform powered by the open-source standard for huge analytic datasets, Apache Iceberg. Iceberg is a project born out of Netflix where the founders worked before starting Tabular.

Founders: Ryan, Daniel, Jason

Signals:

1. Top company alumni

   1. Jason was an engineer at Netflix, Lockheed Martin, and Sun Microsystems for over 17 years

   2. Daniel was an engineer at Netflix and Lockheed Martin for over 15 years

   3. Ryan was an engineer at Netflix, Cloudera, and NSA for over 16 years

2. Top university alumni

   1. Jason graduated from UC Davis (BS) and Santa Clara University (MBA)

   2. Daniel graduated from Santa Clara University (BS, MS)

   3. Jason graduated from University of Maryland (MS)

3. Fast team growth

   1. 12 employees in less than 1 year

   2. And hiring more

4. Midas list investor

   1. a16z led series A

Till tomorrow, Kenn