Future Unicorn🦄 #224: Ikigai
The Quild Future Unicorn highlights one future of work early-stage startup with statistically significant signals of becoming a unicorn.
Ikigai is an operational BI platform that helps you navigate towards business objectives through augmented actions. It integrates with your existing tech stack and stitches together any data sources to streamline end-to-end data-driven processes along with with its unique technology, such as data reconciliation (DeepMatch) or multivariant time series forecasting, and making them accessible for any data professional.
Founders: Vinayak (CEO), Devavrat (CTO)
Signals:
Repeat exited founder
Vinayak founded WellFrame, a digital health AI company acquired by Healthedge. WellFrame was backed by F-Prime Capital and Threshold Ventures
Devavrat founded Celect, a predictive analytics SaaS
Top university alumni
Vinayak graduated from MIT (BS, MS)
Devavrat graduated from IIT Bombay (BS) and Stanford (PhD)
Top institution/company experience
Devavrat is a tenured professor at MIT (17+ yrs)
Top investors
Foundation Capital invested in seed
8VC invested in seed
They're hiring: Job page
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