Quild Mini🦄 #92: BaseTen

From ML model to full stack apps

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

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Baseten is an ML Application Builder for data science and machine learning teams. Baseten makes it simple to serve your machine learning models, integrate with custom business logic, and design powerful web apps for business users, all without configuring any infrastructure or writing React or JS. API endpoints, release management, and scalability all come out of the box.

Founders: Tuhin (CEO), Amir, Philip

Signals:

1. Repeat founders

   • Tuhin and Philip co-founded Shape (funded by Caffeineted Capital, Lowercase Capital, and Haystack)

2. Venture-backed experience

   • All co-founders worked together at Gumroad (funded by Kleiner Perkins, Naval Ravikant)

3. Top company alumni

   • Tuhin worked as a banker at Macquarie for 2 years

   • Amir was an engineer at Yelp and Clover Health for 5 years

4. Top university alumni

   • Tuhin graduated from USC

   • Amir graduated from UC Irvine (BS, MS)

   • Philip graduated from University of Sydney (BS, PhD)

5. Accelerated financing

   • Seed in 2021, series A in 2022

6. Midas list investor

   • Greylock led series A

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Till tomorrow, Kenn