Quild Mini🦄 #103: Bodo

Python supercomputing analytics platform

May 09, 2022

This is the Quild Minicorn, highlighting one future of work minicorn daily - early-stage startups with statistically significant signals of becoming a unicorn.

Bodo.ai is an extreme-performance parallel compute platform for data analytics, scaling past 10,000 cores and petabytes of data with unprecedented efficiency and linear scaling. Developers can deploy Bodo on any infrastructure, from a laptop to a public cloud. They often benchmark against Spark, see the latest here

Founders: Behzad (CEO), Ehsan (CTO)

Signals:

Top company alumni
- Behzad held senior leadership roles at Intel, staying in the group for almost 30 years
- Ehsan was a researcher at Intel for over 4 years
Top university alumni
- Behzad graduated from Cornell University (BS, MS)
- Ehsan graduated from UIUC (PhD)
Fast team growth
- Grew 2x YoY to 29 employees
- And hiring a lot more
Midas list investor
- Uncorrelated Ventures participated in series A

Till tomorrow, Kenn