Quild Mini🦄 #109: Middesk
Quild Mini🦄 #109: Middesk
(Resending w/ corrected title) Check the backgrounds of companies you're doing business with
This is the Quild Minicorn, highlighting one future of work minicorn daily - early-stage startups with statistically significant signals of becoming a unicorn.
Middesk helps businesses conduct background checks on other businesses. It centralizes the information necessary to conduct risk and compliance assessments on each of your customers. Companies that manage regulatory requirements use Middesk for verifying and screening their customers.
Founders: Kyle (CEO), Kurt (CTO)
Signals:
Venture-backed experience
Kyle (4 years) and Kurt (3 years) worked at Checkr for 4 years. Checkr does background checks for individuals (raised $679 million to date from Durable Capital, T. Rowe, Accel)
Top company alumni
Kurt was an engineer at Zendesk for over 2 years
Top university alumni
Kurt graduated from UC Berkeley (BS)
Fast team growth
Grew 2.4x YoY to 64 employees
Midas list investors
Sequoia led series A
Accel led seed
Till tomorrow, Kenn