Sourced Edition 13

Bi-Weekly Report of Data Driven Sourcing & Screening - Stealth Founders, Biotech 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

Founder: Kevin Gauthier

Stealth since November 2024

Geography: France

Background: 3x Technical Founder (exited to Hopper), previously Product Lead at Hopper and CX Products at Oracle. Working in the Vertical AI for Travel.

Stealth

Founder: Mahdi Jelodari

Stealth since October 2024

Geography: UK

Background: 2x Technical Founder with previous experience as Head of AI at Headlight AI, ML Specialist at SATIS.AI, AI Lead at Uptime Labs & AI Founding Engineer at Shyld AI. Doctoral Prize Fellow.

Stealth

Founder: Johan Stubert

Stealth since August 2024

Geography: Sweden

Background: 2x founder, previously Head of BD for Formel Skin, Head of New Products at Fort, & BCG. Working in the health sector.

Stealth

Founder: Ali Abbasi

Stealth since 2024

Geography: US

Background: 2x Technical Founder with as Machine Learning Engineer at TikTok, Linkedin, MZ, & Quid

Stealth

Founder: Emma Qian

Stealth since 2024

Geography: US

Background: 2x venture backed founder with previous experience as a research engineer at Google DeepMind, and software engineer at Facebook AI.

🔍 Discover new Companies: BioTech 🧬🔬

Here are some early-stage enterprise startups we’ve sourced👇

Dash Bio

Founder: Dave Johnson

Geography: Boston

Description: Leveraging AI & Robotics, they deliver higher quality assays with turnarounds 10x faster for clinical trials and GLP studies.

Founder Background: Previous Chief Data & AI Officer at Moderna!

Axiom Therapeutics

Founder: Chris Haggard

Geography: US

Description: leveraging advanced computational platform to treat undruggable diseases

Founder Background: Founder in Residence in Entrepreneur First & has a PhD background in computational methods for material science.

Stealth

Founder: Suyi Zhang

Geography: London

Description: Providing seamless access to AI-ready biomedical data, aimed at accelerating biomedical research & innovation.

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

Sift Biosciences

Geography: US

Description: Developing next-generation immunomodulators

Founder Background: Scientist turned Founder

⏰ 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 👇

Driver

Date Discovered: Feb. 6, 2024
Round Announced: Oct. 8, 2024
Alpha: 245 days


Geography: US
Amount Raised: $8M
Round: Seed
Notable Investors: Google Ventures, Y Combinator

Vectorize

Date Discovered: May 10, 2024
Round Announced: Oct. 8, 2024
Alpha: 151 days

Geography: US
Amount Raised: $3.6M
Round: Seed
Notable Investors: True Ventures

Ciudadela

Date Discovered: July 16, 2023
Round Announced: Oct. 10, 2024
Alpha: 452 days

Geography: Spain
Amount Raised: $2.9M
Round: Seed
Notable Investors: Wayra, Big Sur Ventures, Athos Capital

🌯 That’s a wrap!

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