Quild Mini🦄 #120: Prophecy.io
Low code data engineering
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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:
Repeat founder
Maciej founded Researchably, a tool to make sense of biomedical research
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
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
Top university alumni
Maciej graduated from University of Southhampton
Fast team growth
Grew 1.7x YoY to 40 employees
Midas list investor
Insight Partners led series A
Signal Fire led seed
Till tomorrow, Kenn