Quild Mini🦄 #89: Tabular.io
Quild Mini🦄 #89: Tabular.io
Data lakehouse from the creators of Apache Iceberg
This is the Quild Minicorn, highlighting one future of work minicorn daily - early-stage startups with statistically significant signals of becoming a unicorn.
Tabular is building an independent cloud-native data platform powered by the open-source standard for huge analytic datasets, Apache Iceberg. Iceberg is a project born out of Netflix where the founders worked before starting Tabular.
Signals:
Top company alumni
Jason was an engineer at Netflix, Lockheed Martin, and Sun Microsystems for over 17 years
Daniel was an engineer at Netflix and Lockheed Martin for over 15 years
Ryan was an engineer at Netflix, Cloudera, and NSA for over 16 years
Top university alumni
Jason graduated from UC Davis (BS) and Santa Clara University (MBA)
Daniel graduated from Santa Clara University (BS, MS)
Jason graduated from University of Maryland (MS)
Fast team growth
12 employees in less than 1 year
Midas list investor
a16z led series A
Till tomorrow, Kenn