Quild Mini🦄 #88: Common Room
Community growth platform
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Common Room brings community engagement, product usage, and customer data into a single place. They use intelligence to surface insights from across your entire community and provide tools to act on those insights directly from the app.
Founders: Viraj (CTO), Francis, Linda (CEO), Tom
Signals:
Repeat founder
Tom founded Audiogalaxy, a personal music streaming service, acquired by Dropbox
Venture-backed experience
Viraj worked at Dropbox and Convoy for 8 years
Tom worked at Dropbox for almost 8 years
Top company alumni
Virah worked as an engineer at Microsoft for over 5 years
Francis worked at Facebook for over 10 years
Linda worked in finance and marketing at Morgan Stanley and Amazon for 4 years
Tom worked as an engineer at Microsoft for 2 years
Top university alumni
Viraj graduated from UT Austin (BS)
Francis graduated from University of Washington (BA)
Linda graduated from Harvard University (AB)
Tom graduated from UT Austin (BS)
Accelerated financing
Founded 2020, announced seed and series A in 2020, series B in 2021
Fast team growth
Grew 2.5x YoY to 53 employees
Midas list investors
Greylock led series B
Index Ventures led series A and co-led seed
Madrona Ventures co-led seed
Till tomorrow, Kenn