Quild Mini🦄 #91: Adept AI Labs

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

Adept is an ML research and product lab building general intelligence by enabling humans and computers to work together creatively. In practice, they’re building a universal collaborator for every knowledge worker. Think of it as an overlay within your computer that works hand-in-hand with you, using the same tools that you do.

Founders: Anmol, Ashish (Chief Scientist), Augustus, David (CEO), Erich, Fred, Niki (CTO), Maxwell, Kelsey

Signals: there are a lot of co-founders, so I’m going to only write about the C-Suite

1. Repeat founder

   1. David founded Dextro (seeded by RRE, Two Sigma Ventures), a video ML company

2. Venture-backed experience

   1. David worked as VP of Engineering at OpenAI

3. Top company alumni

   1. David worked at Google, Axon, and Apollo Global Management for 4 years

   2. Ashish was a researcher at Google for over 5 years

   3. Niki was a researcher and engineer at Google for over 6 years

4. Top university alumni

   1. Dave graduated from Yale University (BS)

   2. Ashish graduated from USC (MS, PhD)

   3. Niki graduated from USC (MS)

5. Midas list investors

   1. Greylock co-led series A

   2. Addition co-led series A

Side note: The vision is really ambitious - and exciting. Rockstar research team.

Till tomorrow, Kenn