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

Adept is an ML research and product lab building general intelligence by enabling humans and computers to work together creatively. In practice, they’re building a universal collaborator for every knowledge worker. Think of it as an overlay within your computer that works hand-in-hand with you, using the same tools that you do.

Founders: Anmol, Ashish (Chief Scientist), Augustus, David (CEO), Erich, Fred, Niki (CTO), Maxwell, Kelsey

Signals: there are a lot of co-founders, so I’m going to only write about the C-Suite

1. Repeat founder

   • David founded Dextro (seeded by RRE, Two Sigma Ventures), a video ML company

2. Venture-backed experience

   • David worked as VP of Engineering at OpenAI

3. Top company alumni

   • David worked at Google, Axon, and Apollo Global Management for 4 years

   • Ashish was a researcher at Google for over 5 years

   • Niki was a researcher and engineer at Google for over 6 years

4. Top university alumni

   • Dave graduated from Yale University (BS)

   • Ashish graduated from USC (MS, PhD)

   • Niki graduated from USC (MS)

5. Midas list investors

   • Greylock co-led series A

   • Addition co-led series A

Side note: The vision is really ambitious - and exciting. Rockstar research team.

Till tomorrow, Kenn