Quild Mini🦄 #94: Syndicate

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

Syndicate is a decentralized asset management platform and social network. It creates an investing syndicate for 1000x less time and money.  

Founders: Will, Ian

Signals:

1. Repeat founders

   1. Will is a serial entrepreneur, his latest company before Syndicate was Librarian AI, an AI that helps knowledge workers find expertise faster

   2. Ian founded Philantro, a non-profit to help future philanthropists

2. Venture-backed experience

   1. Will built products at Proxy (funded by Kleiner Perkins) for years

   2. Ian led crypto efforts at Citi Ventures for 5 years

3. Top company alumni

   1. Ian worked at Deloitte for 8 years

4. Top university alumni

   1. Will graduated from Stanford University (BA)

   2. Ian graduated from UC Los Angeles (BS) and UC Berkeley (MBA)

5. Fast team growth

   1. Grew 3x YoY to 53 employees

   2. And hiring more

6. Accelerated financing

   1. Founded, seed and series A all in 2021

7. Midas list investor

   1. a16z led series A

   2. Kleiner Perkins participated in seed

Till tomorrow, Kenn