Quild #42: Ponder

Enterprise pandas

This is the Quild daily, highlighting one early-stage startup that has statistically significant signals of becoming a unicorn.

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Ponder Data provides enterprise-ready tools for rapid, flexible experimentation with data at scale. Ponder makes data teams more productive by enabling them to get insights faster with tools they know and love.

Founders: Devi (CTO), Doris (CEO), Aditya (President)

Signals:

1. Top company/institution alumni

   • Devi worked as an ML engineer at Intel for 1 year

   • Aditya is an associate professor at UC Berkeley and used to teach at UI Urbana-Champaign

2. Top university alumni

   • Devi graduated from UC Berkeley (MS, PhD)

   • Doris graduated from UC Berkeley (BS, PhD)

   • Aditya graduated from Stanford University (PhD) and MIT (PostDoc)

3. Accelerated financing

   • Founded mid-2021, announced seed in March 2022

4. Midas list investors

   • Lightspeed led seed

   • 8VC participated in seed

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Till tomorrow, Kenn