Quild #60: Polytomic

Another addition to the reverse ETL wave

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

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Polytomic pipes data from your app databases, data warehouse, and spreadsheets to Salesforce, Marketo, HubSpot, Zendesk, and others, all without involving engineers. Point and click and go.

Founders: Nathan (CTO), Ghalib (CEO)

Signals:

1. Venture-backed experience

   • Nathan and Ghalib worked at Plangrid (funded by Sequoia and Tenaya Capital), which was acquired by Autodesk for $875 million

   • Nathan was also an engineer at Remind (funded by First Round, Kleiner Perkins, and Social Capital)

2. Top company alumni

   • Nathan was the CTO of Creative Commons and a senior engineer at Eventbrite for a decade

   • Ghalib was an engineer at Atlan Laboratories / SAIC

3. Top university alumni

   • Nathan graduated from Purdue University (BS)

   • Ghalib graduated from Georgetown University (BS) and George Washington University (BS)

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Till tomorrow, Kenn