Quild #21: Supergrain
Headless business intelligence
This is the Quild daily, highlighting one early-stage startup that has statistically significant signals of becoming a unicorn.
Supergrain is building data infrastructure to power modern business intelligence tools and data applications. With Supergrain, data analysts can define and manage business logic and metrics centrally, enabling business users to consume self-serve analytics in the tools of their choice. In doing so, Supergrain enables data teams to be more productive and organizations to become truly data-driven.
Founders: George Xing (CEO), Thomas Chen (CTO)
Signals:
Venture-backed experience
George worked at Lyft from 2014 (pre-IPO) to 2020 (post-IPO)
Thomas worked at Zynga at Series B, was on the founding team of Vurb (series A, acquired by Snap), and Uber from 2013-2017
Top company alumni
George worked as an analyst at Morgan Stanley and Indigeogo for ~3 years
Thomas worked as an engineer at Microsoft for ~2 years
Top university alumni
George graduated with a BA in Economics & Computer Science from Princeton University
Thomas graduated with a BS in Information Sciences from UC Irvine and an MEng in Computer Science from Cornell University
Accelerated financing
Founded and seed funded in 2021
Midas list investor
Benchmark led seed
Till tomorrow, Kenn