Sourced Edition 11

Bi-Weekly Report of Data Driven Sourcing & Screening - Stealth Founders, Marketplaces Signals, Round Advantage,

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🥷🏽 Fresh Stealth Founders

Landscape automatically monitors every founder entering stealth mode. There are currently 19.9k founders in stealth - are you tracking them?

Here are some interesting profiles we discovered recently 👇

Stealth Fashion Tech

Founder: Daria Yakovleva

Stealth since September 2024

Geography: London, UK

Background: 2x Technical Founder, previously product director at Genera and currently Founder in Residence at Antler.

Stealth

Founder: Mohit Aron

Stealth since August 2024

Geography: San Jose, US

Background: 3x Technical Founder at Cohesity ($1.3Bn ARR) & Nutanix and previously worked as an engineer at Google.

Stealth

Founder: Oliver Williams

Stealth since July 2024

Geography: San Francisco, US

Background: 2x Technical Founder previously working engineer at Lacework and Apple and Sr. researcher at Microsoft.

Stealth AI

Stealth since March 2024

Geography: Paris, France

Background: PhD Researcher at Meta

Stealth

Founder: Taha Tobaili

Stealth since January 2024

Geography: London, UK

Background: NLP Engineer at Amazon

🔍 Discover new Companies: Marketplaces 🛒🛍️

Here are some early stage marketplace startups we’ve sourced👇

Geography: US

Description: Innovative growth capital for modern real estate operators.

Founder Background: 2x Technical Founder, previously worked as VP of engineering Torrential Inc and Sr. Software Engineer at Consumer Reports.

Founder: Ben Foster

Geography: UK

Description: All-in-one solution for platforms and marketplaces to manage their payments, optimize margins and streamline financial operations.

Founder Background: 2x Technical founder, previously SVP of Engineering at Checkout.com & TrueLayer

Founder: Mike Dayton

Geography: US

Description: Marketplace designed to connect startups and small tech companies with seasoned fractional executives

Founder Background: 2x Seasoned Sales & Revenue Executive for Axway & Entrust.

⏰ Timing Alpha

Timing is everything in venture! We started measuring the time difference between when companies publicly announce their funding round and when they’re discovered on Landscape!

Here are some timing alpha of companies we’ve sourced recently 👇

Artisan

Date Discovered: Nov. 6, 2023
Round Announced: Sept. 30, 2024
Alpha: 329 days


Geography: US
Amount Raised: $11.5M
Round: Seed
Notable Investors: YC, Soma Capital, Day One Ventures, 10x Founders, Hubspot Ventures

Reducto

Date Discovered: Nov. 29, 2023
Round Announced: Oct. 2, 2024
Alpha: 308 days

Geography: US
Amount Raised: $8.4M
Round: Seed
Notable Investors: First Round Capital, YC, Liquid 2 Ventures

Fynk

Date Discovered: May 28, 2024
Round Announced: Oct. 2, 2024
Alpha: 127 days

Geography: Austria
Amount Raised: $3.4M
Round: Seed
Notable Investors: 10x Founders, 3VC

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