Future Unicorn🦄 #200: Flatfile
Data onboarding platform (for the cynics: CSV importer)
The Quild Future Unicorn highlights one future of work early-stage startup with statistically significant signals of becoming a unicorn.
Flatfile is a provider of a data onboarding platform used to import, map, and normalize customer data exchange from spreadsheets into software applications. The platform uncovers more fine-grained issues that can detect when a spreadsheet is missing columns, as well as determine if numerical values were placed in a section of a spreadsheet meant to store text.
Signals:
Repeat founder
David founded Rainmaker which helps causes & organizations raise money and engage with donors
Venture-backed experience
David was a platform architect Envoy (2+ yrs)
Eric built products at Envoy (2+ yrs)
Top university alumni
Eric graduated from Georgia Tech (MBA) and Emory University (BS)
Fast team growth
Grew 1.6x YoY to 88 employees
Top investors
Tiger Global led series B
Scale Venture led series A
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