Create beautiful illustrations with no design skills
This is the Quild Minicorn, highlighting one future of work minicorn every weekday — early-stage startups with statistically significant signals of becoming a unicorn.
designstripe offers a combination of customizable content and intuitive tools for non-designers. Users in need of design assets no longer have to start from scratch, as designstripe owns a large repository of customizable assets and illustrations with the ability to export to a variety of file types
Full-time founders: Francois, James
Signals:
1. Repeat exited founders
- Francois founded PremiumBeat, acquired by Shutterstock
- James founded Lettering Studio, Invincible Tricking, and Drawkit
2. Top university alumni
- James graduated from UNSW (New South Wales)
3. Midas list investor
- Insight Partners led the latest round
They were #1 on Product Hunt in 2021 and won a Golden Kitty Award
Till tomorrow, Kenn
Making multi-channel product notifications easier
This is the Quild Minicorn, highlighting one future of work minicorn every weekday — early-stage startups with statistically significant signals of becoming a unicorn.
Courier offers an API that lets developers intelligently route user notifications across their existing channels — like SendGrid, Twilio, Slack, and Facebook Messenger — using factors like “is the user online?” and “which channel has produced the most engagement for this user previously?”
Founders: Troy
Signals:
1. Repeat founder
- Troy founded Winmore, cloud software for logistics
2. Venture-backed experience
- Troy led engineering at Eloqua (backed by Bessemer) through an IPO
3. Fast team growth
- Grew 4.2x YoY to 150+ employees
4. Midas list investors
- Bessemer led series A
- GV led series B
Till tomorrow, Kenn
No code for business operations
This is the Quild Minicorn, highlighting one future of work minicorn every weekday — early-stage startups with statistically significant signals of becoming a unicorn.
Next Matter is an all-in-one platform that makes automating, tracking, and executing operations easier and faster than ever. No code, consultants, or IT project management required.
Founders: Jan
Signals:
1. Top company alumni
- Jan worked at McKinsey for several years as a digital transformation expert
2. Top university alumni
- Jan graduated from INSEAD (MBA)
3. Accelerated financing
- Announced seed in 2021, series A in 2022
Similar Quild companies: None that I can think of. There are low/no-code Quild companies like Appsmith which are focused on data apps (e.g. CRUD) and the IT/developer personas. But Next Matter is focused on workflows and business users.
Till tomorrow, Kenn
