Tuesday, November 21, 2023

The startup - Alyna aims to give developers more time to build 

The founder(s) - Oat Wongsaijjathiti and Zihao Jiang

The nugget - seeking beta users

The startup

Meetings don’t help developers. They cause context switching which ruins their productivity. 

Oat and Zihao are helping devs stay in flow. And they're ensuring relevant information flows between managers and their teams.

Industry: B2B SaaS - Engineering Productivity platform
Headquarters: Toronto, Ontario
Year founded: 2023
Employee Count: 2
Funding stage: Pre-seed
Business Model: B2B SaaS pricing
Early Traction: 10+ teams enrolled in their Beta through their waitlist.
Competitors:

• Swarmia backed by Alven Capital, Jigsaw VC, Lifeline Ventures and more ($8M raised)

• Jellyfish backed by Accel, Insight Partners, Tiger Global, Wing Venture Capital and more ($100M+ raised)

• linearB backed by 83North, Battery Ventures, Salesforce Ventures, TechAviv Founder Partners, Tribe Capital and more ($70M+ raised)

• Codeclimate backed by PSG, Union Square Ventures, Foundry Group, Lerer Hippeau Ventures, NextView Ventures and more ($66M raised)

• Stepsize backed by Techstars, CDL, Connect Ventures and more

The founder(s)

Oat Wongsaijjathiti (Co-Founder). Linked. Email

Zihao Jiang (Co-Founder). LinkedIn. Email

The problem they see: Engineering teams are consistently interrupted at work as they switch between different tools and jump in and out of meetings.

The nugget

Beta users. Alyna wants more beta users to join the 10 they already have.

Send alyna.io to Product Managers, Engineering Managers, Technical Program Managers, and Tech Leads you know for them to sign up

Happy panning, 

David Riley

Chief Batea, Klondike

This is the first edition of Klondike. I would love to hear from you. What did you like about it? What didn’t you like? What do you feel is missing or unnecessary? 

Please email me at [email protected] your answers