Sourced Edition 14

Bi-Weekly Report of Data Driven Sourcing & Screening - Stealth Founders, Energy Tech 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: Stephanie Young

Stealth since 2024

Geography: US

Background: 2x exited founder, previously at Payments product Lyft and Head of product for Ikigai.

Stealth

Stealth since 2024

Geography: UK

Background: 3x founder, previously CEO at DiamondNXT, Founder & CEO at Pentestify, GDM at Google. Building in the identity and security in Web 3.0.

Stealth

Founder: Alan Lu

Stealth since 2024

Geography: US

Background: Technical founder, previously VP of Engineering at Forethought, Head of Amazon Applied Science & ML Engineering at Amazon, Head of search science and search experience at eBay.

Stealth

Stealth since 2024

Geography: US

Background: 2x founder, previously Head of Product & Hardware Development at Amazon, Systems Lead at Argo AI, & systems architecture at Lyft.

Stealth

Founder: Mason Swofford

Stealth since 2024

Geography: US

Background: technical Founder, previously Tech Lead for Verkada, Perecption Research Scientist at Waymo and Machine Learning Engineer at NVIDIA.

🔍 Discover new Companies: Energy Tech ⚡️

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

Spark

Founder: Julia Wu

Geography: 

Description: SAI powered workflows to large-scale energy products.

Founder Background: Technical founder previously, Engineering Manager at Brex and Software Engineer at Apple.

Moonwatt

Founder: Zukui Hu

Geography: Netherlands

Description: Developing the next generation of energy storage systems utilising advanced sodium-ion battery technology.

Founder Background: 2x founder previous experience Head of sales w. enegery storage for tesla and SVP for FREYR Battery.

Rexes

Founder: Stephens The’

Geography: US

Description: Smart Energy Solutions for the future of data centres

Founder Background: Technical Founder, previously at 3B Technology Solutions and President at Helio Thermal.

Storio

Geography: France

Description: Storio on-site energy management system controls energy flows and monitors battery health data in real time.

Founder Background: 2x exited founder at Data Mechanics and previously Software Engineer at Databricks.

⏰ 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 👇

ClaimSorted

Date Discovered: May. 28, 2024
Round Announced: Oct. 12, 2024
Alpha: 137 days


Geography: US
Amount Raised: $3M
Round: Pre-Seed
Notable Investors: Precursor Ventures & Firstminute Capital

LeadBeam

Date Discovered: April 9, 2024
Round Announced: Oct. 11, 2024
Alpha: 185 days

Geography: US
Amount Raised: $2M
Round: Seed
Notable Investors: 

baCta

Date Discovered: May 10, 2024
Round Announced: Oct. 10, 2024
Alpha: 153 days

Geography: France
Amount Raised: $3.6M
Round: Seed
Notable Investors: OVNI Capital, Kima Ventures

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