Quild Mini🦄 #107: Alloy Automation

Automating e-commerce

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

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Alloy Automation is the control panel for ecommerce brands to organize data and automate actions across 180+ apps. In addition to customized workflows, Alloy enables users to start from a library of 100+ prebuilt recipes that top users of the platform have created.

Founders: Sara (CEO), Gregg (CTO)

Signals:

1. Top company alumni

   • Gregg worked as an engineer at Fiserv for 2 years

2. Attended top universities - both are dropouts

   • Sara dropped out of Harvard

   • Gregg dropped out of Cornell

3. Fast team growth

   • Grew 1.6x YoY to 24 employees

   • And hiring

4. Accelerated financing

   • Founded in 2019, YC in 2020, seed in 2021, series A in 2022

5. Midas list investors

   • a16z led series A

   • Bain Capital Ventures co-led seed

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Till tomorrow, Kenn