A Primer for Investors and Builders Co-authored with Ben Lorica of Gradient Flow What are foundation models? Foundation models (FM) are a class of machine learning models that are trained on diverse data and can be adapted or fine-tuned for a wide range of downstream tasks. The term “foundation” is controversial among some researchers…

Anecdotes and data Startup valuations 🚀 🌒 In 2021, there is not a day without a $X billion startup headline in the media. The frenzied pace of investing is astonishing to those detached from the startup scene. To New York Times, it seems insane. …

Open-source Notion (>28K Github stars) This will be the last Medium post — if you want to keep seeing more subscribe to my newsletter here. The Quild Future Unicorn highlights one future of work early-stage startup with statistically significant signals of becoming a unicorn. AppFlowy started as an open-source side…

Open-source Figma The Quild Future Unicorn highlights one future of work early-stage startup with statistically significant signals of becoming a unicorn. Penpot is an open-source design and prototyping platform meant for cross-domain teams. Penpot is web-based and works with open web standards (SVG). Founders: Pablo, Juan Signals: 1. Repeat founder Pablo founded Taiga, an open-source project management tool, and Kaleidos, an open-source project studio

Next-generation business planning The Quild Future Unicorn highlights one future of work early-stage startup with statistically significant signals of becoming a unicorn. Pigment is a real-time business forecasting platform. Its platform helps organizations better visualize data and use it to power better business planning and forecasting. …

From the team behind the most popular Graph Neural Network OS project PyG The Quild Future Unicorn highlights one future of work early-stage startup with statistically significant signals of becoming a unicorn. Kumo.AI allows anyone in an organization to tackle predictive problems in business. It enables all non-technical and technical…

1% unicorn rate over 9 months + the spreadsheet of the Quild list (to date) Yesterday, Future Unicorn #200 went out. It has been 9 months since I started this project of highlighting early-stage startups with statistically significant signals of becoming unicorns. So I wanted to do a look back. How well have I done? After being posted on Quild: 0% were acquired or listed on the stock exchange 1% became unicorns

Data onboarding platform (for the cynics: CSV importer) The Quild Future Unicorn highlights one future of work early-stage startup with statistically significant signals of becoming a unicorn. Flatfile is a provider of a data onboarding platform used to import, map, and normalize customer data exchange from spreadsheets into software applications…

A customizable community platform for businesses The Quild Future Unicorn highlights one future of work early-stage startup with statistically significant signals of becoming a unicorn. Tribe is a fully customizable community platform built with a collection of human interaction best practices to help businesses launch brand-led online communities. Communities built with Tribe can be integrated into a product and website or operate as a stand-alone community website.