Quild Mini🦄 #121: Causal

The business planning platform for finance and beyond

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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Causal is a spreadsheet designed just for working with numbers and data. Users can use it for performing calculations (modelling, forecasting), visualising data (charts, tables, text), and presenting these in interactive dashboards. And by connecting Causal to your data sources (ERPs, databases), users can incorporate live historical data.

Founders: Taimur (CEO), Lukas

Signals:

1. Venture-backed experience

   • Taimur was a data scientist at Nested.com for 1 year

2. Top company alumni

   • Lukas was an engineer at WhatsApp/Meta for 2 years

3. Top university alumni

   • Taimur graduated from University of Oxford (BS/MS)

   • Lukas graduated from University of Oxford (BS/MS)

4. Fast team growth

   • Grew 2.3x YoY to 25 employees

   • And hiring more

5. Accelerated financing

   • Seed in 2021, series A in 2022

6. Midas list investors

   • Accel led seed and co-led series A

   • Coatue co-led series A

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Till tomorrow, Kenn