Quild #31: LinearB
This is the Quild daily, highlighting one early-stage startup that has statistically significant signals of becoming a unicorn.
LinearB helps engineering leaders, managers and developers improve on a daily basis. They correlate hundreds of signals every hour across code, Git, project issues, releases and incidents to decrease bottlenecks, improve quality, increase planning accuracy, ship more features in less time and tighten alignment to your business.
Founders: Dan Lines (COO), Ori Keren (CEO)
Signals:
Venture-backed experience
Both Dan and Ori led engineering teams at CloudLock (funded by Bessemer and Salesforce), which Cisco acquired for $293M
Ori was an engineer at Interwise (funded by GE Capital, Lazard, SAP), which AT&T acquired for $121M
Top company alumni
Dan worked as an engineer at Cisco and Nuance Communications for 2 years
Ori worked as an engineer at AT&T for 2 years
Fast team growth
2.8x YoY to 57 employees
Midas list investors
Battery Ventures led series A
Till tomorrow, Kenn