Future Unicorn🦄 #175: Seso

Workforce management for the agriculture industry

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

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Seso is a vertical software company for agriculture. They are addressing the labor shortage in US agriculture by providing farms with reliable workforce by (1) recruiting, qualifying and training workers via H-2A visa automation, and (2) workforce management software to help employers stay compliant with complex local and federal laws.

Founders: Michael, Jordan

Signals:

1. Venture-backed experience

   • Michael led operations for Yup.com

2. Top company alumni

   • Michael worked at McKinsey for a few years

   • Jordan worked at RBC and Dropbox for a few years

3. Top university alumni

   • Michael graduated from Stanford University

   • Jordan graduated from University of Pennsylvannia

4. Fast team growth

   • Grew 1.5x YoY to 100 employees

   • And hiring more

5. Midas list investors

   • Index Ventures led series A

   • Founders Fund co-led seed and joined series A

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