Quild Mini🦄 #125: Novi Connect

Accelerates consumer product development product

Jun 02, 2022

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

Novi connects brands, manufacturers, and suppliers – making it faster and easier to develop products that meet consumer and company values.

Active founder: Kimberly (CEO)

Signals:

Repeat venture-backed founder
- Kimberly founded NakedPoppy, a personalized beauty company, funded by Cowboy Ventures
Venture-backed experience
- Kimberly led data solutions at Domino Data Lab (funded by Zetta, Coatue, Sequoia)
Top company alumni
- Kimberly led the data science org at Eventbrite for over 3 years
Fast team growth
- Grew 1.5x YoY to 37 employees
- Hiring across the board
Top university alumni
- Kimberly graduated from MIT (MS)
Accelerated financing
- Founded in 2019, seed in 2020, series A in 2021, series B in 2021
Midas list investors
- Tiger Global led series B
- Greylock led series A

Note: She was also a data scientist for the Air Force. Super cool.

Till tomorrow, Kenn