This is the Quild daily, highlighting one early-stage startup that has statistically significant signals of becoming a unicorn.

Monad makes security data easy and accessible for DevOps and cloud engineering teams. Monad builds infrastructure to unite security data silos in your organization; normalize, transform, and enrich their data; and enable teams to build effective security and compliance workflows on the fly.

Founders: Christian (CEO), Jacolon (CTO)

Signals:

1. Venture-backed and exited founder

   • Christan co-founded Intrinsic (funded by NEA, a16z, First Round), which VMWare acquired

2. Top company alumni

   • Christian worked at VMWare for 9 months after getting acquired

   • Jacolon worked as a security engineer at Xerox, Palantir, Collective Health and OpenDoor for 8 years

3. Fast team growth

   • Grew 3.5x YoY to 21 employees

   • And hiring a bunch more

4. Accelerated financing

   • Founded and announced seed in 2020, series A in 2021

5. Midas list investors

   • Sequoia capital led seed

   • Index Ventures led series A

Till tomorrow, Kenn