The Quild Future Unicorn highlights one future of work early-stage startup with statistically significant signals of becoming a unicorn.

StarTree is a startup building a platform-as-service version of the Apache Pinot analytics platform. It is founded by the creators of Apache Pinot and inspired by the user-facing analytics revolution begun by companies like LinkedIn and Uber.

Founders: Kishore, Xiang

Signals:

1. Top company alumni

   • Kishore worked at Oracle (1+ yrs), Yahoo (5 yrs), LinkedIn (8+ yrs)

   • Xiang worked at LinkedIn (2+ yrs), Uber (2+ yrs)

2. Top university alumni

   • Xiang graduated from Tsinghua University (BS) and Georgia Tech (MS)

3. Fast team growth

   • Grew 2x YoY to 80+ employees

   • And hiring a lot more

4. Midas list investors

   • GGV led series B

   • Bain Capital Ventures led series A

   • CRV led series seed

5. Accelerated financing

   • Raised series A in 2021, series B in 2022

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