Quild Mini🦄 #154: Paperclip

Automating financial back office work

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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Paperclip is building the financial operating system that will enable every modern tech company to scale without a back office. Their goal is to eliminate the manual effort that goes into finance, accounting, and operations so that businesses can focus on their customers and product.

Founders: Kevin, Daniel, Kent

Signals:

1. Repeat venture-backed founders

   • Kevin founded various companies, his latest one before Paperclip was Headway, a mental healthcare provider backed by a16z, GV, Thrive, and Accel

   • Daniel founded JANDI, a messaging software backed by Softbank

   • Kent founded Maderight, a supply chain software backed by YC

2. Top company alumni

   • Daniel worked at Moelis and TPG for a few years

   • Kent worked at Delloite for a few years

3. Top university alumni

   • Kent graduated from UC Berkeley

   • Daniel graduated from University of Pennsylvania

   • Kent graduated from UCLA

4. Midas list investor

   • Tiger led seed (I’m curious what diligence they did here)

They’re hiring!

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Till next time, Kenn