Future Unicorn🦄 #173: Expedock

Making freight and cargo players more efficient

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

Expedock eliminates inefficiencies for some of the leading players in the $7 trillion global supply chain industry by automating the manual processing and inputting of data into various systems at 99.99% accuracy. Thousands of freight and cargo containers are now being moved internationally via Expedock every week.

Founders: King, Jeff, Rui, Jig

Signals:

1. Repeat founder

   • Jeff founded Applica, which simplifies college applications

2. Venture-backed experience

   • Jig worked at First Circle, a lending platform, and Kalibrr, a hiring platform

3. Top university alumni

   • King graduated from Stanford

   • Rui graduated from Stanford

4. Fast team growth

   • Grew 1.8x YoY to 52 employees

   • And hiring a lot more

5. Midas list investor

   • Insight Partners led series A

   • Pear Ventures co-led seed, joined series A

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