Quild Mini🦄 #120: Prophecy.io

Low code data engineering

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

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Prophecy.io helps enterprises modernize their data engineering with open runtimes and hybrid cloud deployments. They do this by automatically migrating existing ETL workflows to Apache Spark and providing a full-stack data engineering product on Cloud Native infrastructure.

Active founders: Maciej, Raj (CEO), Vikas

Signals:

1. Repeat founder

   • Maciej founded Researchably, a tool to make sense of biomedical research

2. Venture-backed experience

   • Raj built products at Clustrix (before it got acquired by MariaDB) and Hortonworks (before it got acquired by Cloudera) for over 3 years

3. Top company alumni

   • Raj was an engineer at Microsoft and NVIDIA for over 5 years

   • Vikas led sales at Wipro, Genpact, and HP for over 15 years

4. Top university alumni

   • Maciej graduated from University of Southhampton

5. Fast team growth

   • Grew 1.7x YoY to 40 employees

   • Hiring across the board

6. Midas list investor

   • Insight Partners led series A

   • Signal Fire led seed

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Till tomorrow, Kenn