Clearbit: The most underestimated company in San Francisco | by Geoff Lewis | Bedrock | Medium

In 2015, a quirky high school dropout from London quit his job as employee #20 at Stripe and set out to build a seemingly simple utility for data enrichment. The understated nature of Clearbit’s core offering — and their almost all-encompassing focus on creating products that drive real value for customers — has resulted in a rare hyper-growth technology business that’s flown largely under the radar. One need only glance at his Twitter stream to discern that Clearbit founder Alex MacCaw is anything but understated: relentless capitalist meets Conscious Leadership evangelist, Alex unwinds at the turntable (literally, he’s a DJ) and wrote the O’Reilly book on Javascript as a teenager whilst backpacking through Central America. Yet the company Alex and the Clearbit team have painstakingly built is perhaps the most underestimated in San Francisco. Today, Clearbit is announcing they’ve raised $15 Million in Series A financing led by our friend Ash Fontana of Zetta Ventures alongside Bedrock

In 2015, a quirky high school dropout from London quit his job as employee #20 at Stripe and set out to build a seemingly simple utility for data enrichment. The understated nature of Clearbit’s core offering — and their almost all-encompassing focus on creating products that drive real value for customers — has resulted in a rare hyper-growth technology business that’s flown largely under the radar. One need only glance at his Twitter stream to discern that Clearbit founder Alex MacCaw is anything but understated: relentless capitalist meets Conscious Leadership evangelist, Alex unwinds at th