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.
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.
Signals:
Venture-backed experience
Michael led operations for Yup.com
Top company alumni
Michael worked at McKinsey for a few years
Jordan worked at RBC and Dropbox for a few years
Top university alumni
Michael graduated from Stanford University
Jordan graduated from University of Pennsylvannia
Fast team growth
Grew 1.5x YoY to 100 employees
Midas list investors
Index Ventures led series A
Founders Fund co-led seed and joined series A