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Future Unicorn🦄 #206: Whimsical

Oct 10, 2022

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

Whimsical combines whiteboards and docs in an all-in-one collaboration hub.

Founders: Kaspars, Steve

Signals:

Repeat exited founder
- Kaspars founded contact management startup Cobook, whichw as acquired by FullContact
Venture-backed experience
- Kaspars led application engineering at FullContact (3+ yrs)
- Steve was a product designer at FullContact (2+ yrs)
Top university alumni
- Steve graduated from Duke University (BS)
Fast team growth
- Grew 2.1x YoY to 40+ employees
- And hiring more
Top investors
- Accel led series A

Favorite restaurant at the moment: Ilcha, a modern Korean restaurant. The cured shrimp and fried chicken are divine. The hotpots are amazing too.