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Future Unicorn🦄 #206: Whimsical

All-in-one collaboration hub

Kenn So
Oct 10, 2022
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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:

  1. Repeat exited founder

    • Kaspars founded contact management startup Cobook, whichw as acquired by FullContact

  2. Venture-backed experience

    • Kaspars led application engineering at FullContact (3+ yrs)

    • Steve was a product designer at FullContact (2+ yrs)

  3. Top university alumni

    • Steve graduated from Duke University (BS)

  4. Fast team growth

    • Grew 2.1x YoY to 40+ employees

    • And hiring more

  5. 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.

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