Future Unicorn🦄 #165: Metabase

Open-source business intelligence (29K+ stars)

The Quild Future Unicorn highlights one future of work early-stage startup with statistically significant signals of becoming a unicorn.

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Metabase is an open source analytics and business intelligence application. Their product installs in minutes, and can connect to most commonly used databases. It lets anyone in your company quickly ask questions, and create dashboards or nightly emails without knowing SQL.

Founder: Sameer (CEO)

Signals:

1. Repeat founder

   • Sameer founded Adopilot (Facebook ad tools) and While Label Labs/Gitalytics (engineer recruitment)

2. Venture-backed experience

   • Sameer was the CTO of Blackjet (Uber for jets)

3. Top company alumni

   • Sameer was a data scientist in residence at General Catalyst for a year

4. Top university alumni

   • Sameer graduated from Stanford (MS)

5. Fast team growth

   • Grew 1.6x YoY to 50+ employees

   • And hiring across the board

6. Midas list investors

   • Insight Partners led series B

   • NEA led series A and seed

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Till next time, Kenn